Getting to my site by simply typing ifmsystem.com. How?

[josel]

Howdy!

I notice most respectable sites allow you to omit

http://www

off the address. By simply typing the actual domain name, bang, you're there.

What DNS entry do you need to do that?

Regards;


Jose Lerebours

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[smah]

Your 'A Records' would be:

http://www.domainname.com

domainname.com

and possibly:

*.domainname.com

which would handle any subdomain situations. But, for what you're asking about, not only does the DNS record need to be correct, but in order for the webserver to answer, it must be set up appropriately. For Apache, this is the 'ServerAlias' directive; I'm not sure what the IIS equivalent is.

 

[Serbtastic]

The IIS equivalent is to setup either 1 site (default site) to respond to all http requests on port 80, or use host headers, and config both

http://www.domain.com

and domain.com to respond to http requests.

 

[scottew]

You need a blank A record in DNS as well as an A record with www. In IIS set up a host header with

http://www.domainname.com

and another with domainname.com

 

[dearingkr]

Depending on who manages your DNS records, you use either * or @ as a host record.

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