"vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
When I enter "vim.org" into the address bar in Firefox, it successfully redirects to "www.vim.org". But when I enter "vim.org" in Chrome, no redirect happens. Maybe check the Apache config? Observed with Google Chrome 36 in Mac OS X and Ubuntu. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_us

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Markus Osterhoff
* Andrew Pennebaker [140819 23:24]: > When I enter "vim.org" into the address bar in Firefox, it > successfully redirects to "www.vim.org". But when I enter "vim.org" in > Chrome, no redirect happens. Maybe check the Apache config? From what I see (dig vim.org vs. dig www.vim.org), vim.org does no

RE: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread John Beckett
Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > When I enter "vim.org" into the address bar in Firefox, it > successfully redirects to "www.vim.org". But when I enter > "vim.org" in Chrome, no redirect happens. That has been discussed a couple of times in the past. The person who provides the DNS for Vim does so in an

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
Could we please setup a basic Apache redirection, so that users trying to get to vim.org will be successfully redirected to www.vim.org? This procedure is commonly used by many websites, and it helps a lot of users get to the home page more easily--they shouldn't have to see 404 for the domain! A

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Павлов Николай Александрович
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On August 20, 2014 11:42:59 PM GMT+03:00, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: >Could we please setup a basic Apache redirection, so that users trying >to >get to vim.org will be successfully redirected to www.vim.org? > >This procedure is commonly used by man

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
This issue has been raised and rejected (stubbornly and misguidedly, IMO) multiple times in the past: A recent summary: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/tyTTlowNg5s/s2xV8GixE2oJ On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Pennebaker < andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could we please set

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
If we can't control htaccess settings, we can still add an index.html file that redirects to www.vim.org. Example: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411567/350106 Given that vim.org is hosted on SourceForge, we could even redirect to the SourceForge project page. That would still be better than 404'in

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > If we can't control htaccess settings, we can still add an index.html file > that redirects to www.vim.org. > > Example: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411567/350106 Without a DNS A record pointing to *something*, there's no way to s

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
> I still have a redirector set up and ready to go. Point > `vim.org` to 64.130.10.15 and it'll work. There's nothing to say an > apex domain has to be hosted at the same server as `www`. > Good solution! By the way, from my machine that IP seems to be acting like a pairLite ISP parking site. M

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Bart Schouten
Incidentally, if I may be allowed to chime in... My own host doesn't allow for a 301 "moved" but it does offer a 302 "redirect" and it works flawlessly. Here is a good read on it though: http://www.greenhills.co.uk/2011/06/12/www-or-bare-domain.html Personally (at least for my own purposes)

Re: "vim.org" fails to redirect to "www.vim.org" for Chrome users

2014-08-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > >> I still have a redirector set up and ready to go. Point >> `vim.org` to 64.130.10.15 and it'll work. There's nothing to say an >> apex domain has to be hosted at the same server as `www`. > > > Good solution! > > By the way, from my