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As suggested by Fog Creek, I followed the instructions at "How do I point my custom domain at my StackExchange site?" but, now, only mydomain.com points to my SE site, www.mydomain.com points to the default Microsoft IIS7 page.

Have any of you using your own domains found that there were additional steps that were needed in addition to the ones outlined in that post?

Or is this more likely to be a configuration detail that I need to ask Fog Creek to sort out?

EDIT: So, yes, I did need to email, at present they don't automatically give you both yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com, with one redirecting to the other, depending on your preference (my preference is to make mydomain.com the canonical version). There is, however, a lot of activity relating to domains going on behind the scenes, they will probably have a much more encompassing default approach to domains by the time the next revision rolls around. Thanks to Scott and Aaron.

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Why does it redirect when using Firefox or Chrome, but when using IE it shows the default IIS7 page? – Roark Oct 14 at 13:44
My bad - it was just being cached in Chrome and Firefox. – Roark Oct 16 at 9:54

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Your question is basically answered here.

You just have to contact Fog Creek support and ask them to make the IIS server respond to your custom domain. They're still giving Aaron the weekends off so you'll have to wait until Monday. ;)

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As I said, I did follow the instructions, which included asking them to accept my custom domain and that is why mydomain.com is working correctly, it is just the www that is getting the IIS7 default page. Are you saying that they don't automatically presume that you want www? That seems kind of odd, I would have thought that www was pretty standard (although, of course, most advanced Internet users prefer to skip it). – donnacha Oct 4 at 15:08
@donnacha: No, they didn't automatically set that up for us. You may have to ask for the www subdomain separately. You also need to setup a www CNAME record in your DNS (usually this is done automatically). – Scott W. Oct 4 at 17:06
Thanks Scott, I'll get straight onto that tomorrow :) – donnacha Oct 4 at 17:14

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