[GRASS-dev] Website does not work with www for me

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Fri Aug 14 03:47:50 PDT 2020


On 2020-08-13 8:17 p.m., Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ondřej Pešek <pesej.ondrek at gmail.com <mailto:pesej.ondrek at gmail.com>> 
> schrieb am Do., 13. Aug. 2020, 23:50:
> 
>     Howdie,
> 
>     when I go to the GRASS website the lazy way without typing www
>     (grass.osgeo.org <http://grass.osgeo.org>), I can load the page
>     without a problem. However, when I want to try it with www
>     (www.grass.osgeo.org <http://www.grass.osgeo.org>), I get the "Page
>     not found" error message.
> 
>     Is it just me? Is it normal?
> 
> 
> It's expected as we don't have a DNS record for that
> 
>     Is it internet mimicry? Is it something I should open an issue at
>     [1] for?
> 
>     Thank you,
>     Ondřej
> 
>     [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/grass-website
> 
> 
> 
> Do we want that, too? I'd find it confusing, with and without www. But 
> let's hear opinions!
> 

Absolutely, a DNS record for www.grass.osgeo.org is still needed


-jeff





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