Virtualmin www vs non-www setup

Posted January 11, 2014

Ok, banging my head against the wall. I have virtualmin/webmin setup and working and have some sites setup on it with WordPress. If I go into the wp-admin and set both fields to the http:///www.mydomain.com then I get lookup failures. If I leave it to http://mydomain.com then no issues and WordPress works great.

I did try creating an alias of www.mydomain.com under mydomain.com in virtualmin and it told me that I do not need to setup an alias with www which would tell me that it should be working.

I am sure that there is something very simple that I have overlooked in the setup and any assistance is greatly appreciated

David

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Kamal Nasser • January 11, 2014

You need to create a DNS record for the www subdomain. Check out <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-and-test-dns-subdomains-with-digitalocean-s-dns-panel”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-and-test-dns-subdomains-with-digitalocean-s-dns-panel</a>.