Hi, I’m trying to get my domain setup with a droplet so that when you enter in “domain.com” it will go to “www.domain.com”. I used to use a wildcard CNAME, but that didn’t work, and setting up the A record with the www prefix doesn’t seem right (after digging around on the internet)
What am I doing wrong? Also, neither version of the site loads on Safari, but the www.domain.com loads on chrome. Weird.
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This question was answered by @olavamjelde:
Hi, DNS changes can take many hours before it’s updated. So if you think you set it up right, you have to wait and see.
For my set up I have just set up A-name records that point to my floating ip. The floating IP points to the VPS. You dont have to have a floating ip, but it makes it possible to switch servers in the future without waiting for DNS-changes. Also you can make failover clusters etc.
inside nginx I have a server block that listens for both www.domain.tld and domain.tld Then I have another server block for redirect (https).
In theory I could have one block for www with redirect and one for just domain.tld. There are many options, but you have a simple thing that ties it together:
- DNS point A-name to the IP that works for your server.
- Server has to listen for domains
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