www. prefix = 404 on links that lead to SF

[croat1gamer]

As the name says, if you use a link which is having the www. prefix you will get a 404 error, while without it everything works fine.
Any ways to fix that?

Check it:
http://www.forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=30.0
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=30.0

[Quantifier]

Doctor, my head hurts.
Does it hurt all the time?
No, only when I hit it with a hammer.

Everything works fine.
"www." is not a prefix, it's a part of the name. Most sites work with two different names (e.g. "soldat.pl" and "www.soldat.pl") that lead to the same site. This site doesn't, it has only one name.

And besides, if you add www. you should get server name unresolved error, not 404.

[~Niko~]

that happens because forums.soldat.pl is just a SUB-domain, not a domain, so it can't contain www.

you could have:

maps.soldat.pl
demos.soldat.pl
files.soldat.pl

but not, ever, www.*something*.soldat.pl

[mar77a]

yes you could it's just useless and not enabled

[Farah]

it takes like 10 seconds to enable it anyways

[jrgp]

that happens because forums.soldat.pl is just a SUB-domain, not a domain, so it can't contain www.

Yeah, it can. For example my school's http://www.wphs.ocps.net/ . There can be sub domains ontop of sub domains too: http://static.forums.soldat.pl/

Adding www.forums.soldat.pl functionality is possible, but it's epicly useless since no one'd ever bother to append a www. to the beginning of the URL anyway.

[freestyler]

jrgp: yes, but a number of links on soldatforums contain that www prefix already.

[jrgp]

jrgp: yes, but a number of links on soldatforums contain that www prefix already.

umm no they don't. Not anymore, at least.

[~Niko~]

that happens because forums.soldat.pl is just a SUB-domain, not a domain, so it can't contain www.

Yeah, it can. For example my school's http://www.wphs.ocps.net/ . There can be sub domains ontop of sub domains too: http://static.forums.soldat.pl

Didn't know...