Question

A little bit of a strange issue with the WWW and non-WWW versions of cashcommons.com.

If I type http://www.cashcommons.com in either Firefox (3.5.6) or IE (7 or 8), I get to my site fine.

If I type instead http://cashcommons.com (no www) then I get to the site in Firefox all right, but I get an "oops this link appears to be broken" in IE.

What I suspect is happening is that I've done something not quite correct with my DNS settings, and Firefox is compensating for something that IE is not.

Here's what I have done:

1. My WWW CNAME points to lbny-se.fogcreek.com
2. Added cashcommons.com and www.cashcommons.com as aliases in my SE admin section
3. (Apparently) set cashcommons.com as my primary domain (which doesn't make sense, as all of the feeds and such report the www domain)

Anyway, was this answered before, or is there an easy solution? Basically I'd be happy if people can type my site name either with the www or without and have it reach there in IE (Firefox is already all right).

Thanks!

Answer 1

It appears from your description that you have only pointed 'www' towards lbny-se.fogcreek.com This will only work for www.cashcommons.com. You need to have another DNS entry just for cashcommons.com pointing to lbny-se.fogcreek.com. (specifically, the name should be 'cashcommons.com.' (note the period at the end there.) That should fix it.

I'm guessing that it works in firefox because it automatically tries www.domain.com after domain.com fails.