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When I first opened my free hosting account with x10hosting I was a complete novice (still am really) so was clueless about what I was doing.
I think that I was asked whether I wanted a www prefix.
Can a free hosting account be changed to include the www. prefix?
 

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It works by default. When registering, there isn't any option to add or remove "support." Even if you add 'www.' to the sub-domain while registering, there's a large chance that it the default prefix would end up making the URL work with an extra www. like 'www.www.example.x10.com' as it adds on to the beginning automatically).
 
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I have never found it working by default that way so is it just for me that it doesn't work.
 

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It will work unless your .htaccess or website script prevents it from working ("same-origin" rules sometimes apply, and the browser doesn't see both versions as coming from the same server). It doesn't redirect, though.
 

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Even with no .htaccess www hasn't worked on my account acew.x10host.com with any browser from the outtset. I had to put in a redirect, where the redirect worked until the changes to .htacess rules on the 30th September, so now Im even more confused if it works that way for everyone else.
 

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You get a blank page?
If you're able to access the control panel then you'll need to check out the advanced DNS zone editor section and see if there's a www.acew.x10.mx entry that's under CNAME pointing towards the non-www one.
 
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So you got www. to work with CloudFlare? That must mean that the issue is solved. What I offered was (as I said) to skip CloudFlare, so I would say that what you used instead is better. Haha.
 
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