Can only access site using www (know cause but not solution)

Link?

Oooo I love guessing games.

1st guess - did you check to see if both domain.com and www.domain.com resolve correctly?

I have narrowed it down to my exim install. I reinstalled everything again and once I installed exim it caused the issue of not allowing me to visit my site without the www.

I followed this step by step.

http://library.linode.com/email/exim/se … 0.04-lucid">http://library.linode.com/email/exim/send-only-mta-ubuntu-10.04-lucid

Any ideas? My test emails do work.

Also I installed my LAMP server off of the Linode guide.

Thanks.

I am narrowing this down. This is the specific spot where my error is….

Before proceeding, make sure your /etc/hosts file has valid entries. For reference, your file should resemble the following:

File: /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain     localhost
12.34.56.78   hostname.yourdomain.com   hostname
Be sure to replace "12.34.56.78" with your Linode's IP address. Replace "hostname.yourdomain.com" with your Linode's fully qualified domain name. Next, make sure your hostname is set in /etc/hostname by issuing the following commands (insert your one-word hostname in place of "hostname").

echo "hostname" > /etc/hostname
hostname -F /etc/hostname
Issue the following commands to check your setup:

hostname
hostname -f
The first command should return only the one-word hostname for your system, while the second command should return the system's FQDN.

If I add…

12.34.56.78   hostname.yourdomain.com   hostname

with my server ip, domain.com domain

It is causing my issue. Any thoughts? If I remove the second line it does not.

[b]127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost [/b] 12.34.56.78 hostname.yourdomain.com hostname

I just kept the first line and did not include the second and all is well. Everything is working as it should. Any issues I may see from it?

Alright, just throwing this out there. Would sticking a .htaccess file in the website root (/srv/www/yourdomain.com/) with modrewrite enabled in Apache work? If you haven't tried the .htaccess route, make a .htaccess file and put this as the contents (and make sure modrewrite is enabed): RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I do have mod_rewrite enabled so I can have clean urls in drupal. Overall it works now so I am content.

Thanks for the help.

I will say one thing… the extra work it took to learn how to set all of this up was well worth it. I have never had a site run this fast. Very pleased.