WWW.forums.degitalpoint.com <<< Not Found. >>>

If i use www.forums.digitalpoint.com instead of forums.digitalpoint.com , site dont show up ..

 

Then don't use it.

 

Very interesting your right.. wonder why they did not redirect the www to forums.digitalpoint.com

 

there is NO such URL !!

the "forums" is instead of "www"
= subdomain

redirects are used to rewrite

domain >> www . domain
or
www . domain >> domain

but usually never to redirect www . sub . domain to sub.comain

it is most unusual to redirect such EXTREME USER-errors
users are expected to know at least a tiny bit of www standards before searching a webmaster forum. MO

 

The best way is not to use it at all, but IwhiC has a point. Not everyone knows the drill about subdomains and www.

Shut it.

 

I agree with hans, forums. is a sub domain and I don't think it is correct to use a www. prior on a sub domain.

if maybe possible I think dp will create a sub domain which is www.forums

 

I agree also.

It's just like trying to do this....

www.www.digitalpoint.com

 

well this is funny to me already "www.www.digitalpoint.com"

lol

nice one bro....

 

if you have it set up right it will work
http://www.ant.iwhic.com/
http://www.anything.iwhic.com/
http://www.proxy.iwhic.com/

That way ones that do not know will still find your site.. instead of getting a page not found and going else where.

It just makes since to direct any of your traffic to your site with redirects and wild card dns. other wise you lose potential customers.

 

while sub.fodlers to . sub . domains
are used

!! there is NO such URL !! @ digitalpoint and that was the OP
and a webmaster really should know that !

yahoo is a different story as shown in a reply - here its about DP forum and NOT about ANY site / any URL

all world can possibly use yahoo including total newbies or kids and all world is making millions of mistakes daily - thus a billion $ company may have the tech and $ resources needed to compensate for all such human errors

from a "normal" pro-oriented website focusing at site owners / publishers there is no need to invest the additional millions of $ in error compensating scripting/reqriting

 

I am not her to start a debate, I am just saying it can be done, and not everyone on this forum knows that you do not need the www. nor is every one a webmaster. it takes little to no effort to set it up so that your traffic gets redirected.. so you do not get a page not found, or any other errors, like 404's.

 

everything can be done
and every wish has a price - so does lack of knowledge as well have a price

every redirect / rewrite costs ADDITIONAL resources
and if you look at DP forum donation request then you know that DP forum ran OUT of resources due to lack of $ long time ago - else there would be NO such donation request!

if you look at the HW and other resources already used and add another 5 or 10% for additional error compensation - then you see that the REAL services and useful stuff would have to be reduced or more money be donated.

if you have millions of requests then such redirects / rewrites add substantially to resource consumption.

 

Did you know search engines will crawl those dynamic subdomains. And create dupe content.

 

Thanks for the smart idea IwhiC. I didn't really have any idea about this until now.

Thanks