Should I be using www. when setting up virtual hosts on apache?

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Published on 2013-10-20T04:05:19Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 9:57 UTC
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Does it matter whether or not I include the www. sub-domain when creating new virtual hosts on apache?

So is this?

/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.com

better than this?

/etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com

I would assume I'd need to a2ensite either www.example.com or example.com. Depending on whichever method used?

This might be a a fairly basic question But, I have no one else to ask. And, want to do it right.

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