I can’t recall how many times I’ve entered a domain name in a browser, say ‘domain.com’, only to wait 30 seconds and get an ugly 502 Bad gateway error in return.
The problem? Enter http://domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com and see what happens.

  1. you are served the expected website, the url stays the same
  2. you are redirected to http://www.domain.com or some other url
  3. you get a 502, Bad gateway timeout

I don’t know if it’s laziness, lack of knowledge or simply host providers being plain rubbish, but it’s an annoying problem that can be solved extremely simply!

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