By Impaloo
Hey. Let’s say I have a domain domain.com.
I want all traffic to domain.com to be redirected to www.domain.com (this redirection is done from my web server).
I also want to have custom sub-domains such as william.domain.com.
As of now, my DNS records looks like this.
Is this the correct way of doing it (notice the trailing dot(s))?
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If all your subdomains are at the same IP address as the root domain, the simplest set up is to just create a wildcard CNAME:
Check out this tutorial:
How To Set Up and Test DNS Subdomains with DigitalOcean’s DNS Panel
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