Tomcat: Redirection of mysite.com to www.mysite.com

Question

I have a strange behavior and using tomcat7 on a debian.

My problem is that when in a browser I am writing mysite.com I am redirected with to www.mysite.com.

I am using the node host with some nodes alias.

I have searched in many configuration file and also on google but I do not find any answer to my behavior. Please help?

Comments

What is your setup and configuration?

Have you used an HTTP protocol analyzer to see if the server is in fact redirecting the client?

Answer 1

I use a service called ZoneEdit (zoneedit.com) which lets you create records that cause similar redirections. For example, I can point a domain name, like mysite.com to xyz.techstuff.net with their records. Perhaps something like that is causing the redirection, rather than any entries on the server itself?

Answer 2

I could be way off-base here (it wouldn't be the first time!), but:

It could also be that your browser thinks it's smarter than you are. I've seen browsers apparently redirect themselves (without any redirect having been set up) to variations on a URL, and/or to whatever is set as
their default search engine, but so far as I know, that usually only happens if the browser can't resolve the URL as entered, or if the user didn't explicitly type the protocol prefix on the URL.

Does it happen with other browsers? Does it happen if you try it from someplace with a completely different web connection? Have you tried explicitly typing the http:// or the https:// at the beginning of the URL?

Comments

By the way, the setting name in Mozilla Firefox is "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled"
I usually explicitly change this and "keyword.enabled" settings to the value of "false".

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/domain-guessing.html
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.enabled