Hello.
My question is how to create a CNAME Record for the root domain “example.com”.
I’ve already looked at this tutorial here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/dns/how-to/manage-records/
They wrote that I should use the “@” sign. Unfortunately when I try the “@” sign in the Hostname field I get the error: “Invalid Hostname”.
I wanna create the following alias:
example.com is an alias of foo.whatever.com
Thanks for the help !
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Hi @timoDjatomika,
Did you try putting example.com in instead of the @ sign?
I hope this helps! Bud Manz
Hey, @timoDjatomika
Could you please let me know if you want to set example.com as alias of foo.example.com or the other way around?
According to this blog post: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-cant-a-domain-s-root-be-a-cname-8cbab38e5f5c/
I shouldn’t use the CNAME for the root domain. Some DNS Providers implemented a workaround (e.g. Cloudflare) so thats the reason why it worked for my other domain (using Cloudfront to host a website and Cloudflare as my DNS Provider).
I think digitalocean decided not to implement such a workaround because of reasons that I don’t know (maybe they wanna stick to a standard???)
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