On 28/04/15 19:14, Andreas Goss wrote: > So you think it's okay that http://www.hot.openstreetmap.org/ or > http://www.wiki.openstreetmap.org/ are just dead links? > > I mean I never done it myself, but isn't it like just 1-3 short lines in > the .htaccess file? > > And how many used xxx.opesntreetmap.org pages do we actually have? blog, > forum and help are the only ones I can think of
www. is just a legacy from times gone by. It is not 'essential', and as long as the primary domain routes properly that is all that matters. ADDING www. back in is what is wrong if anything. sub-domains such as wiki. help. forum. blog. hot. do not need or want www. in front of them. This is a little bit of a 'personal choice' and my reference is http://webfaq.co.uk/prefix.htm but there is nothing in the W3 documentation that requires using www. and even the sub-domain argument depends on how things are served up. If everything is on the one IP address one only needs the primary domain, and sub domains can be folders on that, but where several sub-sites on different severs are involved keeping a unique sub-domain as the first entry is just convenient. Having to dig to find what is after a www. is pointless. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
