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

October 7, 2014 5k views
lameei
By:
lameei

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?

1 comment
Log In to Comment
2 Answers
larry 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.

Reply
  • lameei October 8, 2014

    Here is the config file for myDomain.com:

    <VirtualHost *:8000>
    ServerAdmin info@myDomain.com
    ServerName www.myDomain.com
    ServerAlias myDomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/myDomain.com/public_html
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

    myDomain.com refers to the default settings but www.myDomain.com opens the right index.html.

  • larry October 8, 2014

    I see you are using port 8000 in your VirtualHost directive, which makes me think you are using Apache behind a proxy server. If that is the case, it would also be necessary to alter the configuration of the proxy server.

    Just as a check on this configuration, what happens when you try mydomain.com:8000 in your browser?

  • lameei October 8, 2014

    I have installed and configured Varnish on my VPS. mydomain.com:8000 loads nothing. There was an entry inside /etc/hosts for mydomain.com with IP of 127.0.0.1 which I removed. Is there somewhere else like this?

  • sierracircle October 8, 2014

    I have not messed with Varnish before: but, my thinking is it might be a good idea to get your websites working properly first before installing any sort of caching application.

    This way you will have one less "moving part" to deal with as you trouble-shoot.

    Having said that, I have never used Varnish, so I am just talking off the top of my head.

  • larry October 8, 2014

    The place to look now is at your Varnish configuration. I haven't used Varnish myself. I just spent 5 minutes reading about it to try to find an answer, so this is far from an expert opinion. My guess is that you need to look at the regex that matches www.mydomain.com. It should be altered to also match my domain.com or add another one to match that.

    It's likely that mydomain.com:8000 gets nothing because port 8000 is closed. I wouldn't go to the trouble of changing anything just to test that.

  • lameei October 8, 2014

    I'm not sure about the DNS record is it correct?

  • larry October 8, 2014

    It looks good to me.

  • lameei October 8, 2014

    Here is the solution I found : Just deleted the CNAME to WWW and added an A record for it, Bingo it Works right now.

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.

Reply
Have another answer? Share your knowledge.