How can I include the www. in my domain?

Posted on August 17, 2016

I can access to the web like: example.com but if I try www.example.com , it says: page not found or something like that. I’m building right now a multi site with apache virtual host and I can’t find how to do it in my new domain, any help? :)

Thanks

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MDS

August 17, 2016

Add ServerAlias www.example.com to your virtual host file to listen on www.

For example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

hernandanielg

August 21, 2016

Also you need to create a DNS record to your (www) subdomain.

For intance: example.com is your domain (zone) and www.example.com is your subdomain such as api.example.com or w3.example.com, but the commonly used subdomain is www by convention.

Let’s say you have a A record in your DNS for your domain like this

@    A    192.168.0.1

People can reach your site just typing http://example.com in the URL bar of the browser. Now if you need to expose your site as http://www.example.com you can do this in several ways, these are two of them.