I have the following html code:
<div id="page">
<a class="topNavigationLink" href="http://MyOwnWebsite.com/">Home</a>
<a class="topNavigationLink" href="page1.html">page1</a>
<a class="topNavigationLink" href="page2.html">page2</a>
</div>
When i browse to www.MyOwnWebsite.com and then click on the navigation links, all works as expected.
But if i browse to MYOWnWebsite.com (no www) and then try to navigate to one of the pages i recieve a error :
Firefox can't find the file at http://MyOWnWebsite.com/page1.html.
Am i doing something wrong? what is the correct way to handle www.website.com versus website.com?
To fix this i did the following:
Went into my host gator control panel -> Clicked on domain redirect. added a permanent redirect from http://website.com to redirect to https://www.mysite.com.
This way every time the user goes mysite.com without the www , it will redirect them to the www.mysite.com and all the navigation will work from there.