I am using Google Domains for domain name. I host client on Vercel which works perfectly fine. But I have a problem with accessing my droplet on subdomain.
My google domain settings are like this:
@ A 3600 Vercel IP www CNAME 3600 cname.vercel-dns.com. API A 3600 My Droplet ID
When I try to access the droplet with raw ip it works fine but I cannot access it through subdomain. What am I doing wrong?
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It seems to me like the DNS is not properly configured. Let’s say you have a domain.com and you want to point sub.domain.com to your droplet. What you can do is create an A record for sub.domain.com to point to your Droplet :
Name Type Destination
sub.domain.com A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is your Droplet’s IP address.
As for the www version, now you can use a cNAMe record like so
Name Type Destination
www.sub.domain.com CNAME sub.domain.com
That way your www.sub.domain.com will point to where your sub.domain.com is pointing.
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