By nkhilv
Hi, I’m hoping someone here can help. I currently have a digital ocean droplet running Ubuntu LAMP on 18.04 .
My site works fine when accessed at www.mysite.com. However, typing it into a browser (http://mysite.com) gets a generic error in the browser (‘this site can’t be reached. mysite.com’s server ip address couldn’t be found’).
Here are the things I’ve tried:
Accessed the 000-default.conf file at /etc/apache2/sites-anabled and added the following:
```
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerAlias mysite.com *.mysite.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html
This seems to work OK on Firefox and Safari, but on Chrome I'm still getting the error. I tried clearing my cache on Chrome but it doesn't seem to help. This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
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The error you’re getting is indicative of a missing DNS record for mysite.com. So make sure you have an A record for mysite.com pointing to your droplet’s IP.
Yes you need this:
Type: A Hostname: @ Value: IP Address of my domain TTL: 3600
Yes that’s an @ sign in Hostname
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