No, it is actually not related in any sense of that word, because web server is already working fine and is properly configured and the problem is that clients have absolutely no idea where it is.
Without the htaccess, the website can be reached from www, or no-www. My point is that you can only "use" one, but being able to access it via www or no-www. Obviously you can see it changes www to no-www, which removes the redundancies that may occur. The DNS just creates the existence of the no-www.
um, like, seriously.. what the hell are you even talking about? you're just way out of your depth here. I think you're trying to make some sort of reference to RewriteRules or ServerAliases, but these have nothing to do with htaccess directly (htaccess may allow user account to set some of those directives in Apache), and they definitely have nothing to do with DNS.
no, ESReality can't be accessed by a normal person using a normal computer, without "www." there is no DNS record for it.
if the Server directive has an alias for the domain itself, the site may be accessible by sending a modified Host: header, but this does not mean that the DNS record exists. it doesn't.
I'm 25, and I don't think you understand hyperbole. you sound more dumb with each successive comment.
I am a networking expert, and for that matter I'm an Apache expert. don't tell me what's related and what isn't. DNS has nothing to do with web servers.
It's not a fix, because only the person who added it to hosts would be able to access esreality.com, while billions of other people will continue to heplessly stare in despair at "could not locate remote server" error.
the delay is that not enough people edited their hosts file. after you edit the C:\system32\drivers\etc\hosts like I said above, you have to keep the settings for a while until enough people update, and the requests will be cached by the CNAME request handler servers. once that overruns a certain threshold, google will just update the root hosts file and it will work
See the answer of that moron tyryl slightly below. It's probably your browser's feature. But still no one has added CNAME or A record for esreality.com
awesome. you're good at calling people morons after confidently asserting that, hey, things work for me so you must be wrong!!! I'm also a huge fan of your posts about 9/11 conspiracies and other garbage. you're a likeable, intelligent fellow.
if you have a browser like Chrome, sometimes they have "ease of use" features which actually try prepending www & such before deciding a site can't be reached. this may have happened if you recently upgraded or used a different browser, or you possibly accidentally pressed ctrl-enter, which causes this to happen manually rather than automatically.
noticed this on my phone.. silly
"www" is so redundant nowdays. when i ask someone like my dad for a website address and he starts with "www.." gets on my nerves so bad :D
very true, www. is like the most redundant thing to date,
you can have sub-domains for subsites, but not the mainsite, www. should be abolished imho ... or at least every site should have the main-domain point at the main-site and still keep www. for nostalgic reasons