Question
confused about how DNS is setup
I hope someone can help me.
For some reason when I go to http://www.mywebsite.com I am getting something different then when I go to http://mywebsite.com
My DNS records are:
A | @ | ##myIP##
A | test | ##myIP##
CNAME | * | mywebsite.com
CNAME | www | mywebsite.com
I am so confused. I feel like it has something to do with poor configuration of test.mywebsite.com which is a url I set up for testing.
Hopefully someone can help!
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If you are getting a response on both www.mywebsite.com and mywebsite.com it sounds like the issue may be your virtualhost configuration. If mywebsite.com is displaying the correct content you likely need to add the following line to it’s virtualhost configuration. Assuming you are using Apache as your web server you can add the following line to the virtualhost configuration for mywebsite.com
and then restart apache with
It’s really weird.
I figured out that http://mywebsite.com is pointing to the directory I created for my test.mywebsite.com, but www.mywebsite.com is pointing to the right directory.
:(
Atleast I know the problem now, I just have to figure out how to fix it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to this.
I found the problem! In my conf file, I had:
ServerName www.mywebsite.com
but I changed it to:
ServerName mywebsite.com
and restarted apache and now everything seems to work fine.
:)