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How to add www record to domain

  • Posted on October 5, 2014
  • diditAsked by didit

How to add www record to domain, so I can access them on http://domain.com, http://www.domain.com, and domain.com ? Please help me.


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KFSys
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September 10, 2022
Pinned Answer

Hello all,

to create a www record for your Domain, you just need to navigate to your Control Panel —> Open the project your Domain is in —> Select the more option (the tree dots under each other) —> Manage Zone.

Once in there, all you need to do is under the Create new record select the A record, in Hostname type in www, under WILL DIRECT TO add the IP address you want your www.domain.com to load from and click the Create Record button.

That’s it, now you have a www record for your domain.

Kamal Nasser
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October 5, 2014

Your DNS records should look like this:

screenshot of the first record screenshot of the second record

See How To Set Up a Host Name with DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean.

I added but no success. An error message appears: CNAME records cannot share a name with other records. Please help me.

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