This redirect has me racking my brain

[LesleyPaone]

I cannot tell if something is wrong with my domain redirect or if it is some default behavior by Chrome. I made a short video, I used Moz first since they are using an SSL certificate too. But the gist is immediately when I type in the address it flashes www, then redirects to the non www. domain. Because of how its happening so quick I cannot tell if this is just default Chrome behavior or if I have the DNS set up incorrectly. Here is the video. http://screencast.com/t/UDHmdTCbQv

[beammeup]

Howdy Lesley!

It looks like the www is 301 redirecting correctly to non-www, but that is happened in Apache, looks good. The DNS record looks to be setup as a CNAME currently, I might suggest changing that to an A record (so 'www.dh42.com' point to 67.225.148.201 as well). The 301 redirect from non SSL to SSL looks good too!

Remove that CNAME record to reduce a roundtrips. Also in Apache, make sure someone visiting 'www.dh42.com' gets redirected to the non-www and SSL version of the site ('https://dh42.com'). In the current setup, there is an extra 301 redirection that you can remove.

Your Apache config might looks like this to achieve that:

skip a redirection and directly go from http://www to https://(non-www)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.(.*.)?dh42.com

RewriteRule (.*) https://%1dh42.com$1 [R=301,L]

[LesleyPaone]

This is baffling me. This is what I have in my htaccess http://screencast.com/t/zB6UME7aCT  This is my httpd.conf for port:80 http://screencast.com/t/DXoDU5Fnt  and for port 443 http://screencast.com/t/KtB5NKvkYP  Also this is what I have in my dns file in CPanel, http://screencast.com/t/8atFbpKdM   The CNAME is still there, because when it is removed since it redirects to www first, the site breaks.

[LesleyPaone]

This looks like it could be a non issue, it doesn't do it in any other browsers and does not do it on other computers, which I think is strange.

On another note I wanted to email you and ask you about something totally unrelated, is there a good email address for you? The only one I have is the support one. Or you can email me at lesley@dh42.com