Every website used to be like “www.example.com”. Now I rarely encounter this “www.”. Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but “ww1.” instead of “www.”, these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’ve always made the ‘www.’ work for any site I’ve administered, but they immediately redirect with a 301 to the same url without it. It’s never been necessary, and I’ve always found it an eyesore.

    Start with reading the documentation that explains this config:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1$1 [R=301,L]