Basic Domain Question

[inusrat]

Hi,

Suppose I have a domain mydomain.com. I can hit my site by entering

mydomain.com

Then I have 2 subdomains
english.mydomain.com
french.mydomain.com

MY question is. I can also access my site by entering
www.mydomain.com

will

www.mydomain.com be also considered as subdomain of
mydomain.com

[tracknut]

Normally "www" is aliased to your domain mydomain.com, but it could be a subdomain if you set it up that way. Basically the answer is that either one is possible.

Dave

[inusrat]

thanks a lot

[inusrat]

One quick question. I was told and also in the following article

http://content.websitegear.com/article/subdomain_tips.htm

that to make cookie work for subdomain you neeed to set cookie domain as .mysite.com
and then it will work for www.mysite.com or www.eng.mysite.com etc,
but if you put 'dot' in front it will not work for mysite.com (http://mysite.com)



document.cookie = cookieName+"="+escape(cookieValue)
+ ";expires="+expire.toGMTString() + ";path=/; DOMAIN=.mysite.com";




But that is not true. i tried that with dot and it works for both
www.mysite.com and mysite.com

[Stettin]

I read somewhere that it is best to create a redirect for mydomain.com to go to www.mydomain.com via mod-rewrite apache config. I think this helps search engine rankings because sometimes you can get dinged for content on both.