Why isn't my site available via the www prefix?

Question

mydomain.com works great - but www.mydomain.com doesn't (I get server not found error).

Answer 1

mail189778 July 28, 2013

goto : DNS -> SELECT DOMAIN -> ADD RECORD -> Select record type "A"

hostname : www
IP Adress : your droplets IP

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kumar1dk1 September 29, 2016

You took me out of grave....thankyou .....I was scratching my head for 3 days for this issue.....Thankyou again.....a small post of your 3 years old…helped me in 2016
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CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

Hi Dear “mail189778” Good one dear really help us out, Thank you so much
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danielepais September 18, 2018

I was looking everywhere on Google for about an hour to find a solution to the same issue on AWS and found this post. Did exactly as stated and it worked as a charm. Kudos +++++
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janatbek February 23, 2019

I already have A record but it is not working. what else could prevent my site redirecting to my API? thank you for your reply.
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Answer 2

kumar1dk1 September 29, 2016

You took me out of grave....thankyou .....I was scratching my head for 3 days for this issue.....Thankyou again.....a small post of your 3 years old…helped me in 2016
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CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

Hi Dear “mail189778” Good one dear really help us out, Thank you so much
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danielepais September 18, 2018

I was looking everywhere on Google for about an hour to find a solution to the same issue on AWS and found this post. Did exactly as stated and it worked as a charm. Kudos +++++
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janatbek February 23, 2019

I already have A record but it is not working. what else could prevent my site redirecting to my API? thank you for your reply.
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Answer 3

antarrbyrd September 30, 2015

Worked for me thanks @mail189778

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nelsond97daf8a7 February 18, 2016

this answer just sounded right even before I used it
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Answer 4

nelsond97daf8a7 February 18, 2016

this answer just sounded right even before I used it
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Answer 5

pablo July 28, 2013

Are you trying to force the use of the www subdomain or do you simply want your site to be accessible via the www subdomain?

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Answer 6

k2marketing.steve July 28, 2013

thanks guys those a record instructions above worked. thanks!

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Answer 7

CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

A Record updated as mail189778 said its works, Thanks

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Answer 8

tyidnet February 13, 2018

Even after 5 years, when I run into the same issue, mail189778’s help still works! DigitalOcean should put it to documents.

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RMTech September 6, 2018

Agreed - I just found and used this to resolve my issues in sept of 2018.
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Answer 9

RMTech September 6, 2018

Agreed - I just found and used this to resolve my issues in sept of 2018.
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Answer 10

zedawow September 21, 2018

Thanks a lot man! <3

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Answer 11

m15802599187 September 5, 2019

A

www.jocloud.com Copy
directs to
167.71.153.9 Copy

3600 Copy
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A

jocloud.com Copy
directs to
167.71.153.9 Copy

3600 Copy
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NS

jocloud.com Copy
directs to
ns1.digitalocean.com. Copy

1800 Copy
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NS

jocloud.com Copy
directs to
ns2.digitalocean.com. Copy

why isnt mysite working?

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