"www" addresses will cease to function

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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: "www" addresses will cease to function

It seems half the support issues are people using the wrong address for forums. This has now been blocked on one server, and will start being blocked on all servers assumming nothing to drastic happens as a result. Users will be told the correct forum address and will have to click to go there. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

I think thats a great idea how people can get there forum address wrong is beyond me, then when you point it out they say well it works for me,, well guess what it wont now _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ http://www.myshopbag.co.uk XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject:

People will now come on here saying that their forum wont work, blahdy blahdy blah

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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

Well hopefully not, as they will see a page with a link to their forum and with a message about clearing cookies to deal with login issues. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

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Well hopefully not, as they will see a page with a link to their forum and with a message about clearing cookies to deal with login issues.

Ah right. I just tested it on this forum and saw that message. Great idea!

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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:49 am Post subject:

It's funny actually, we have spent weeks telling people about the evils of "www" as it may not work, and guess what! On some more investigation of what happens on different servers I find that "www" does not get you to the forum at all. Or for that matter give you a warning message. In one sense this is no big deal, as we have never ever told anyone that "www" is there. However given people do use it, it would be better if "something" always happened. So I will be updating the nameserver code to make "www" alive for forums, only then to show people the message not to use it _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:12 am Post subject:

Admin this won't affect my .net forwarding will it? You know I have www.rorap.net forwarded to http://roanokevalleyrap.myfreeforum.org.

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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:09 am Post subject:

Forwarding is another thing we do not support as such. If a domain can be "pointed" at us we will set things up properely to ensure things work ( for a small donation) but otherwise it is pot luck. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:34 am Post subject:

Just so everyone knows thats exactly what I did.