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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I always just include a ServerAlias line with the www. version of a domain for everything I host.  I err on the side of human stupidity.  I've given people direct links to something like http://service.mydomain.com/ and they complain that it doesn't work because instead of clicking the link, they were typing it directly into their browser as www.service.mydomain.com.  I asked why they were typing www when that wasn't what I gave them, and they seriously replied that all web sites HAVE to have the www. (!?!?!)

On 02/03/2014 04:23 PM, Quinn Wood wrote:

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free> wrote:

Why 'www'? Isn't that a redundant throwback to when... well does anyone
actually know why anyone used www as a sub-domain anyway?

Used to be you'd have one host per service. www, mail, ftp, irc. Now
you can run it all on one machine, and the extra hostnames are a bit
redundant. With www in particular you'll occasionally see someone
complain that your website "doesn't work" because they've specifically
put www into the address bar :)

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