I added a WWW record as CNAME to @ in the Networking panel in DigitalOcean and I am unable to access my domain with www.domain.com (it simply says "This site can’t be reached" no redirect loops"). I am able to access my domain as domain.com though.
Without have the domain, it's a little difficult to assist, but try running these commands to make sure the DNS is correct:
dig yourdomain.com NS
dig yourdomain.com A
dig www.yourdomain.com CNAME
And do you have www.yourdomain.com enabled in your web server as well as yourdomain.com?
Strangely, using the NS command, it shows my domain pointing to default NameCheap servers; however, I am confident that I pointed correctly to the DigitalOcean name servers. The A command shows my domain pointing to my web server. (My A record is on DigitalOcean, not NameCheap)
And yes, I believe I have the domain correctly setup for my web server.
Do you need the domain?
Thank you for your help and your time!
If it's less than 48 hours you changed the name servers, then you might have to wait.
Otherwise probably something went wrong and you should go to your NameCheap account and change the name servers again.
Have a look at this tutorial - it might be a little old, so maybe it has changed a little:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-point-to-digitalocean-nameservers-from-common-domain-registrars#registrar-namecheap
Here is my .htaccess
Force www:RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^playhorrorgames.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.playhorrorgames.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]