I was testing my site in IE7 (always fun...) and I noticed that IE7 was pulling cached files even after I had flushed the cache. After a little while I realized that my boost cache folder -- cache/normal/ -- had two versions of my site: example.com and www.example.com.

As I can see it, the modern browsers were appropriately responding to my site settings that call for the site to be rendered as example.com; however, IE7 was still rendering the site as www.example.com. As a result, Boost was creating a separate cache for anyone using IE7.

It's good to be aware of this if you're worried about users who might be using IE7. My way of coping with it is to simply go in to the web server and delete the folder generated by IE7 users. Is there a better way to set things up?

Apologies if this is a repeat -- I browsed the issues titles and didn't see this. (Also, not sure whether to classify this as a bug or support request. Feel free to change my classification as a bug.) Big Boost fan here. Thanks for all your work mikeytown2 and bgm.

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tvcat commented

you can redirect the user to either example.com or www.example.com by editing the htaccess

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bgm commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Indeed, you should add a redirection in your web server config (apache htaccess) to have only one canonical domain.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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last paragraph got clipped because i didn't close the tag properly