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confused about how DNS is setup

Posted on December 11, 2014

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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This question was answered by @kzuanich:

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.

:)

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