Weird thing going on with domain. if Entered without www.domain.com, goes to wrong host

Question

Hey all I got a quick question for you that are more experienced than me with hosting etc :) I made a website and firs put it on one host and entered it's nameservers on my purchased domain website to link them of course. After that, I figured that host is too slow, so I changed to other host, and after that also changed my nameservers to be the ones of the new host. Now I have a problem, If someone goes to http://zipdaturl.com he gets redirected to the default index.php page of the old host and if it is with http://www.zipdaturl.com it goes to the correct one. What is it that I can do so that both of these go to the correct host ? I checked domain provider, both nameservers are pointing to the new correct host.

Answer 1

Yeah, www DNS caches are (I'm sure) registering latest host provider static IP for your website so this is "normal www behaviour" for a few days when you are changing hosts. Domain transfer is hugest www change (for one domain/website) and you always need few days for that to complete.

In that period you have 2 (here and there) "hosts".

Funny, depending on a location youre visiting your site, you can see actual site, or you can see old one - at the same time.

But old one will vanish in few days. Enjoy!

Answer 2

Contact your old nameserver provider and tell him to remove the domain from his parkings OR create an index.html on your old host like this:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.zipdaturl.com/">

Answer 3

Well I have checked and both URL took me to the same website.but I think you also need to do WWW redirection using ht access.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ __controller.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^zipdaturl\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.zipdaturl.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Mostly domains need some time to be point in. You can check it by pinging(window+r type cmd).

ping -t www.zipdaturl.com

and check the upcoming response IP Address