# To www. or not to www. that is the question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436>\
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**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436 "2003-07-23T02:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![HelloKittyGurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3be4f8/32.png) [@HelloKittyGurl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/HelloKittyGurl)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436/1 "2003-07-23T02:54:15Z")

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Hi peoples!!😛  
I have a quick question. when I ftp something on my site the pages are different if i put the www or not. For example. [http://www.mywebsite.com](http://www.mywebsite.com), gives me a different page from [http://mywebsite.com](http://mywebsite.com). I thought it was the same. I tried to change the pages from the www site by changings its name to no www. What is happening? how can I change this?  
Thanks,

Roxy Gurl

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436/2 "2003-07-23T03:13:07Z")

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That’s weird. I guess that has something to do with your Domain Registrar (who you bought your domain name from) or your host. You should take this question up with them (domain registrar would be my guess).

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436/3 "2003-07-23T03:18:33Z")

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This is a DNS issue, whoever is hosting the DNS records for your domain (web host, registrar, or other as the case may be) has something configured wrong.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-www-or-not-to-www-that-is-the-question/26436/4 "2003-07-23T20:29:26Z")

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yea it’s real easy to configure your server to read, either [http://www.yoursite.com](http://www.yoursite.com) or [http://yoursite.com](http://yoursite.com). my guess is that some companys are just too darn lazy