By m4atlhodi
Hello, i have been following the tutorial on how to Set Up a Host Name with DigitalOcean, but my domain can open with just the domain name without the www. so i added cname record of www and @ to try to prepend the www to make it work, but unfortunately nothing worked, please help
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Open your virtual host file and add ServerAlias with www. It’s should look like this. <br> <br><VirtualHost *:80> <br> ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com <br> ServerName yourdomain.com <br> ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com <br> DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html <br> […]
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