Hey people,

I hope I'm posting this in the right place, I couldn't find anywhere that seemed appropriate. (I don't know what language, html/php/etc the answer to my question will use!)

I've just found that some people are accessing my site at http://mawoosh.com as opposed to the proper address http://www.mawoosh.com. (Alexa.com links to the first address).

For some reason my php code doesn't work when the site is accessed at http://mawoosh.com

while I try and sort that out can anyone tell me how to automatically redirect any users from http://mawoosh.com to http://www.mawoosh.com.

While we're at it, can anyone tell me what the difference between the two addresses is too?!

Thanks a lot for your help!

No difference at all. hostname.tld is the basic form of the URI, www.hostname.tld is a subdomain that has become the accepted norm for URIs

You only need to care about only one version being seen if you care about the search engines and need one version only to be visible.
It should make no difference to PHP code at all unless something is coded to look for the www version.

301 redirects a how to in several code versions.

Thanks for the link Chris, really helpful!

I don't understand why my code doesn't work, but I don't seem to be able to retrieve variables from a database to flash using php. I'm just going to redirect for now.