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This Dreamhost support thread was started by chronologic on 2009-12-22 19:14:46:

Post Reply? Recently I used the panel to switch a domain to: “Leave it alone: Both http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/ will work.” (Previously it was on the mode where it Adds the “www.”) BUT Now, whenever I try to browse to just mydomain.com without the www, I get this error: Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this. error id: “bad_httpd_conf” Question 1: Should I be contacting support about this? It still works fine with www., but only with ^www.mydomain.com Question 2: Is it possible to instruct the server to use Any subdomain the same, i.e. any.sub.mydomain.com will be treated the same as mydomain.com, without redirecting, and without requiring said subdomain to be set-up by me, first? Ideally, whichever subdomain the viewer typed into the browser would remain there in the address bar (because there’s no redirect) and then my script would be able to read the HTTP_HOST cgi value to determine which ’subdomain’ was intended. Any help appreciated Thanks -C p.s. I have shared hosting, not the dedicated PS. p.p.s. There are two “redirect” subdomains now, for mydomain.com , but they’re expendable.

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