Comments on: Romanian website configuration

By: Fun and Gag

Fun and Gag — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:58:30 +0000

Fun and Gag…

[...]Romer!can – Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania)[...]…

By: Kate Rohanna

Kate Rohanna — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:22:59 +0000

Fantastic write-up im subscribing to your feed Cheers yet again

By: hundertwasser

hundertwasser — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:16:37 +0000

hi, that’s a precise install. There is whatever mistakes but the primary is here.

By: Romanian Museum

Romanian Museum — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:31:20 +0000

I sent a leter/appeal…If not received let us know..

Rodica Perciali

By: Romer!can - Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania)

Romer!can - Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:08 +0000

[...] It’s probably a good guess to say no one reads this blog any more. Rightly so; there hasn’t been anything to read here for blog-eons. And I’d wager that even if there are a few last holdouts, they may not have read my previous discussion about the systemic ignorance of Romanian Web server administrators. [...]

By: Porolissum

Porolissum — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:32:47 +0000

Actually the DNS (e.g. bind) is not properly configured and this job is usually done by sysadmins at web hosting companies.

By: Narc

Narc — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:10:10 +0000

@Ubu said: “They just don’t go the extra mile because most of them don’t know that extra mile exists.” — isn’t that exactly the point? I’m an enthusiast, so I know how to do it and have done it to my own domain. These people are being paid to do this. One would expect at least the same amount of knowledge I have, right?

Besides, how is it not a misconfiguration to see two different websites (or worse, no website at all) based on whether the “www.” is present or not, especially when one of them has absolutely nothing to do with the company you’re trying to find?

@Romer!can, as a very minor nitpick, if you really wanna save keystrokes for .coms, typing “google” and hitting Ctrl+Enter is a beautiful shortcut. Unfortunately, I think Safari doesn’t know about it, and possibly some others. But I’ve been using it for ages in Firefox.

(there are also similar shortcuts for .org and .net, but I don’t use them much so I don’t remember them. Also, these shortcuts almost always add the “www.” in front, too. Finally, in Firefox, the shortcuts are configurable to some extent, so theoretically one could be made for .ro)

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:41:21 +0000

Ubu – Welcome to the show. I understand the concept of subdomains that you’re trying to share with others. However, I am not wrong. The websites are misconfigured. End of story. When you go to yahoo.com, you do not get a gossip magazine, a glass manufacturing company, or a “Welcome to Windows” page. ;]

By: Ubu

Ubu — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:18:08 +0000

You’re wrong. They just don’t automatically redirect the traffic to the www subdomain when no subdomain is present in the address or, sometimes, don’t redirect to the root domain when the user asks for the www subdomain while no www subdomain exists. It may be annoying, now when most of us think that having a www subdomain is deprecated, but is not a misconfiguration. They just don’t go the extra mile because most of them don’t know that extra mile exists.

http://www.yahoo.com – means www subdomain of the yahoo subdomain of the com domain

yahoo also have other subdomains, off the top of my head
mail.yahoo.com – the mail site
login.yahoo.com – login gateway etc.

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:56:04 +0000

Victor, cu siguranţa. I think you may be correct about it being less visible in Ardeal. I also think it’s probably less visible than 5 years ago, generally speaking. Still, it’s everywhere. Even with a majority of ex-pat Romanians in the States.

Narc, how did I know you’d set the record straight? ;]