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Let the Forum Owners to use 'WWW' in their domains !
Topic Started: Oct 9 2014, 09:53 AM (1,866 Views)
nogats07
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Hi !!! Zetaboards is one of the best forum software i had seen ,, But using 'WWW' in domains are not allowed ???? what :&&&& , please fix it :)


i want for my domain is to look like ,,, www.mydomain.com , but it's not allowed ... it automatically removes it ;;; wew !!!
Edited by nogats07, Oct 9 2014, 09:54 AM.
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Auroris
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If you are looking for something like www.invisionfree.com, for example, to go straight to your forum, then you would need to have bought a domain name yourself. Zathyus Networks isn't a domain registrar.

I believe they have a working relationship with Namecheap.com, with step by step instructions for setting it up. Namecheap instructions are located here.
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I don't think it's anything to do with ZetaBoards but rather you domain host. If you're using the default ZB domain then of course they have have a www prefix because there's already a prefix of what server your board is hosted on (such as s12, s1, s15 etc).
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nogats07
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No , your wrong .. i use www in my cname and a records ,, and put www.mydomain.com on zetaboards domain manager then it automatically removes the www . many forums also doesn't have www like outlineforum
Edited by nogats07, Oct 9 2014, 11:02 AM.
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Works for me http://www.thenerddomain.com. My domain host is Tierra Hosting.
Edited by Ferby, Oct 9 2014, 11:19 AM.
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"PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD."

Ferby: you'll notice that the www is always stripped from the URL, though. That's what they're referencing.
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when you type www.mydomain.com on the address bar and after it finished loading it will show no WWW
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www.whatever works, it just doesn't show in the address bar.

What is the problem with that?
Edited by Jason, Oct 9 2014, 03:49 PM.
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Oct 9 2014, 03:48 PM
www.whatever works, it just doesn't show in the address bar.

What is the problem with that?
As Nicolas said, the issue nogats has is they want the www. to remain in their address bar. Like when visiting a site such as http://www.gameinformer.com/
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Oct 9 2014, 03:50 PM
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Oct 9 2014, 03:48 PM
www.whatever works, it just doesn't show in the address bar.

What is the problem with that?
As Nicolas said, the issue nogats has is they want the www. to remain in their address bar. Like when visiting a site such as http://www.gameinformer.com/
I'm not sure why this would be wanted as the new days of the Internet don't require WWW to be used at all. Nevertheless, I apologise for not understanding :)
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"PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD."

So I don't think this is a change you'll see, and here's why:
www is an old subdomain that every website used to use - often, typing in just "example.com" wouldn't bring you to a webpage, you'd need to include the "www" subdomain.
That is no longer the case. In fact, it's pretty rare for people to type it in at all.
If we allowed "www" to be used and not stripped from the URL, it's possible you would point the "www" record to your forum, neglect to point the record without a subdomain (example.com) and half your users wouldn't be able to get to your board.
This way we know if you've set up your domain properly for either an alternative subdomain where there would be no expectation for example.com to work (like forum.example.com) or for "www" to include the root domain itself, as well.
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Nicolas
Oct 9 2014, 04:40 PM
So I don't think this is a change you'll see, and here's why:
www is an old subdomain that every website used to use - often, typing in just "example.com" wouldn't bring you to a webpage, you'd need to include the "www" subdomain.
That is no longer the case. In fact, it's pretty rare for people to type it in at all.
If we allowed "www" to be used and not stripped from the URL, it's possible you would point the "www" record to your forum, neglect to point the record without a subdomain (example.com) and half your users wouldn't be able to get to your board.
This way we know if you've set up your domain properly for either an alternative subdomain where there would be no expectation for example.com to work (like forum.example.com) or for "www" to include the root domain itself, as well.
Cookies are saved per domain, which includes sub-domains. So given `www.something.com`, the `something` is a sub-domain of `com` and `www` is a sub-domain of `something`. If you omit the `www` sub-domain then all cookies are saved to the domain `something`, so whatever other sub-domains are used with `something` will also transfer all cookies to the server on all those sub-domains whenever a user visits a webpage.

This is only really relevant if the domain has other sub-domains, but is something ZB should definitely take into account.
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"PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD."

If that's your concern use forums.example.com as your primary domain and have the other in the domain manager to redirect to it.
Otherwise, your point does not address the very real problems people would encounter (and then open support tickets for, or simply never realize they're missing half their audience) that my point addresses.
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You can set your primary domain as www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com as other domain , i'd already tried it ... but i use outline.nogats08.tk ,, try typing nogats08.tk only and it will show outline.nogats08.tk after it redirects ... i wish www is allowed :&&& ... many zetaboard forums will look more professional when they have www on their domains :))
Edited by nogats07, Oct 10 2014, 11:49 AM.
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nogats07
Oct 10 2014, 11:48 AM
forums will look more professional when they have www on their domains :))
I disagree. WWW in URLs is not only an eyesore but causes inconvenience for the user to type in. Many of the most modern sites don't use WWW because simply they aren't required to. It simply only exists today because it was once required and removing it from being used would cause many users to ask where their site has gone (like if I had typed www.twitter.com to be redirected to a 404 page).
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