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How to route the domain with www and without to one location?

  • Posted October 7, 2014

My DNS settings are as follows:

$TTL	1800
@		IN	SOA	NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.	hostmaster.[mydomain.com]. (
			1412671879 ; last update: 2014-10-07 08:51:19 UTC
			3600 ; refresh
			900 ; retry
			1209600 ; expire
			1800 ; ttl
			)
             IN      NS      NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
                     NS      NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
                     NS      NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM.
			MX 10	mx.zohomail.com.
			MX 20	mx2.zohomail.com.
@	IN A	[SERVER-IP-ADDRESS-REMOVED]
www	CNAME	@

The problem is that the domain without www loads index.html in ( /var/www/index.html) and with www loads (/var/www/mydomain.com/public_html/index.html)

How can I fix this issue?

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Adam Robertson • October 7, 2014

Two questions for you:

are you using apache2? what would you like to see happen? (someone types in www.yourdomain.com and it resolves to yourdomain.com…or the opposite…)

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lameei • October 8, 2014

I’m using apache2. And the problem is that the domain with www and without it should open the same index.html which they do not.

Larry Fransson • October 7, 2014

It’s probably your server configuration. It sounds like you have a configuration for a server with the name mydomain.com and a server root of /var/www/mydomain.com/public_html/. Apparently /var/www/ is the server root for the default domain, which you are seeing because you don’t have a configuration for www.mydomain.com. You should be able to just add www.mydomain.com as a server name for the mydomain.com configuration.