Question
How to redirect www.mydomain.com to a naked domain when using App Platform?
- Posted on March 25, 2023
- DNS
Asked by James Colley
Hi team: I just signed up for App Platform and my app is already running… very impressed!
I went into my domain name provider settings and changed all the nameservers to match Digitalocean’s ns1/ns2/ns3 names servers.
All is well and I can see my webapp at https://mydomain.com. This is exactly what I want (a naked domain).
However, I am not sure if/how it is possible to redirect users to the naked domain if they should visit https://www.mydomain.com. Is it possible with Digitalocean?
My domain provider provides some of these options, but I think it would require that I switch my domain’s name servers back to theirs; I would prefer to keep using Digitalocean’s name servers.
Thanks!
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Hello @jamescolley
You can setup a CNAME record for the www version of the domain namne. CNAME records define aliases for A records by pointing one domain to another domain instead of to an IP address.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/how-to/manage-records/#cname-records
As for the https redirection, the domain will automatically be redirected to HTTPS and there are no changes required from your end.
Hope that this helps!