why do I have to type www.

Patriot Photography · September 2, 2008

In explorer and firefox I have to type out my url in full or I will be directed to the godaddy free parked page. What gives? I have yet to encounter a page, at least in firefox, that I needed to type .com let alone www.

denisegoldberg · September 2, 2008

Patriot Photography wrote:

In explorer and firefox I have to type out my url in full or I will be directed to the godaddy free parked page. What gives? I have yet to encounter a page, at least in firefox, that I needed to type .com let alone www.

Did you set up an A record for your site? Without that you need to type www. With it you don't.

See this wiki page for setup help - http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/CNAME+Custom+Domain+Name+Help.

--- Denise

Andy · September 2, 2008

See "how to drop www from my address" here:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

Patriot Photography · September 2, 2008

Sorry guys wrong thread AND already covered topic. I promise I did a search I'm just excited.

Patriot Photography · September 2, 2008

hhhhm I seem to have an a record with the correct IP address AND it looks like I have and @ CNAME...

I followed the directions for setting up the custom URL that I already had and that was part of it. Do I have to wait awhile? This was maybe two days ago.

Allen · September 2, 2008

Patriot Photography wrote:

hhhhm I seem to have an a record with the correct IP address AND it looks like I have and @ CNAME...

I followed the directions for setting up the custom URL that I already had and that was part of it. Do I have to wait awhile? This was maybe two days ago.

Works here without www

Probably didn't wait long enough.

why do I have to type www.

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