website doesn't appear properly in address bar

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thestrangebrew1

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I created a website for my business I'm starting out using wordpress and hosted by namecheap. When I type in www.mybusinessname.com, it goes to my website properly, but in the address bar, it just shows http://mybusinessname.com/

I gave my link to a friend so she can give some input on it and she wasn't able to access the page using IE or Firefox, but on my pc I can access it fine on IE. Anyone know why the www part doesn't show up?
 

Markbnj

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When you enter 'www.mybusinessname.com' the server is responding with a 301 redirect to 'mybusinessname.com'. This is something to address with your site host.

Code:
Request URL:http://www.mybusinessname.com/
Request Method:GET
Status Code:301 Moved Permanently
Request Headersview source
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:www.mybusinessname.com
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.95 Safari/537.11
Response Headersview source
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:0
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:37:41 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=15, max=100
Location:http://mybusinessname.com/
Server:Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
X-Pingback:http://mybusinessname.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.2.9
 

MonKENy

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but I mean to the outside world. Would it make a difference to anyone? How does it affect site traffic or what would be the negative effects of it?
 
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but I mean to the outside world. Would it make a difference to anyone? How does it affect site traffic or what would be the negative effects of it?

Yup, www.domain.com and domain.com, in my case, go to two completely different servers. One, a webpage hosted who knows where, the other a file host in the server room about 30 feet from me.
 

MonKENy

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oh gotcha

so the www is like the front door and without it all you are doing is opening bedroom doors
 
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