Hello,
Can someone please explain how website URLs and domain names interact?
Specifically, if you own a domain such as: yourwebsite.com
If you have the domain records setup so that the CNAME www.yourwebsite.com -> yourwebsite.com
How does the www version become the default web address and how is 301 redirects applied?
If www is pointed to naked domain, why does the website default to www version – shouldn’t it be the other way around? Or is this web server configuration based?
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These are setting that can be configured on the server settings or defined site’s cpanel. You can set up what is the canonical version of the site, and redirect the non-canonical to it. Hosting setups may default to www. but you could change to drop that if you choose to do so fairly simply.
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