How to setup CNAME properly so "www.example.com" loads instaed of redirecting to "example.com"

It sounds like your DNS records are correct. Could you provide more information about your site? What webserver are you using? Apache, Nginx? If you could pastebin their configurations, we could probably supply you with a better answer.

Having the same issue and I’m not sure the Apache / NGinx is the issue. Take a look at this tutorial. It sounds like it might be the issue.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-and-test-dns-subdomains-with-digitalocean-s-dns-panel

I stand corrected. I fixed my problem by going into my <pre> $>cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled </pre> and then doing a: <pre> $>sudo vi example.com </pre> Then add something like this to the top of the config file. <pre> server { #listen 80 is default server_name www.example.com; return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri; }

server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /home/path/to/example.com/html; … </pre>

I then restarted ngnix and it worked for me.