My iWeb site doesn't have www. before it, and I cannot figure out why..

[AdventurousJosh]

Hey guys,
I hosted a website in Godaddy awhile back, http://www.example-akwoods.com.
But for some reason once I set up godaddy and Iweb's forwarding, I can only get to the site by typing in "example-akwoods.com. You see, if I type in http://www.example-akwoods.com it doesn't work. Nothing comes up, page not found. I have to drop the www. and it drives me crazy! when signing up for godaddy, when it asked for the websites name, was I suppose to add in the "www."? It had the .com already there so I assumed it just needed the website title..that it would add the "www." by itself.

I can't figure it out!


Thanks...

 

[DLH]

Website addresses do not have the "@" character in them. That's only used for e-mail addresses.

Why are you trying to use "example" in the website address?

This is typical: http://www.akwoods.com/ and seems to work correctly.

 

[AdventurousJosh]

Website addresses do not have the "@" character in them. That's only used for e-mail addresses.

Why are you trying to use "example" in the website address?

This is typical: http://www.akwoods.com/ and seems to work correctly.

Sorry, I didn't mean to include "@", just giving example. btw, I had no idea akwoods was even a site!
Okay, my website is akjosh.com
I cannot get to my site by typing in http://www.akjosh.com - only akjosh.com.

See what I mean?

 

[Ninja Guidan]

why is it password protected?

 

[d21mike]

Sorry, I didn't mean to include "@", just giving example. btw, I had no idea akwoods was even a site!
Okay, my website is akjosh.com
I cannot get to my site by typing in http://www.akjosh.com - only akjosh.com.

See what I mean?

In you DNS Settings for your domain "akjosh.com" I believe you need to add the Host Name "www". Check with whoever hosts your Domain Name.

 

[DLH]

Sorry, I didn't mean to include "@", just giving example. btw, I had no idea akwoods was even a site!
Okay, my website is akjosh.com
I cannot get to my site by typing in http://www.akjosh.com - only akjosh.com.

See what I mean?

Yes. It's a DNS problem.

akjosh.com resolves to an IP address and http://www.akjosh.com does not.

The easiest thing to do is add a "CNAME" record in the DNS manager at GoDaddy which points http://www.akjosh.com to akjosh.com.

I don't host sites with GD, so I can't give specifics on that. Have a look here: http://help.godaddy.com/article/681

Edit: Too slow!

 

[bzboy01]

same problem with godaddy

I am having the same problem. When I enter www before my website, it starts asking me about my username and password and when I enter just mydomainname.net it start working. Can someone help me understand this?

 

[ivnds]

Is it possible to have both settings working? I have the opposite problem:

When trying : mysite.com
A "domain is parked in godaddy.com" landing site appears.

But when i try: http://www.mysite.com
it properly loads my site. Id prefer without the www since people tend to ignore it nowadays.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Hey guys,
I hosted a website in Godaddy awhile back, http://www.example-akwoods.com.
But for some reason once I set up godaddy and Iweb's forwarding, I can only get to the site by typing in "example-akwoods.com. You see, if I type in http://www.example-akwoods.com it doesn't work. Nothing comes up, page not found. I have to drop the www. and it drives me crazy! when signing up for godaddy, when it asked for the websites name, was I suppose to add in the "www."? It had the .com already there so I assumed it just needed the website title..that it would add the "www." by itself.

I can't figure it out!


Thanks...

Go to the "Total DNS Control" part of your GoDaddy account and add a CNAME for "www" that points to web.me.com.

 

[annapolisjohn]

Is it possible to have both settings working? I have the opposite problem:

When trying : mysite.com
A "domain is parked in godaddy.com" landing site appears.

But when i try: http://www.mysite.com
it properly loads my site. Id prefer without the www since people tend to ignore it nowadays.

Reset Safari and try again.

 

[ivnds]

No Go. I don't think this is a browser issue, unfortunately it happens both in Safari and Firefox.

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Is it possible to have both settings working? I have the opposite problem:

When trying : mysite.com
A "domain is parked in godaddy.com" landing site appears.

But when i try: http://www.mysite.com
it properly loads my site. Id prefer without the www since people tend to ignore it nowadays.

On the same "Total DNS Control" page I referenced above, try creating a CNAME for mysite.com and pointing it to web.me.com. Having both those CNAMES worked to make my site available on both the "www.mysite.com" and "mysite.com".

 

[ivnds]

Thanks a lot! It works now, I was a bit frustrated because at first it didn't seem to, but I just had to wait a bit.