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

July 28, 2013 17.7k

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k2marketing.steve

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

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mail189778 July 28, 2013

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

hostname : www
IP Adress : your droplets IP

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
CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

Hi Dear "mail189778" Good one dear really help us out, Thank you so much
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 +++++

antarrbyrd September 30, 2015

Worked for me thanks @mail189778

nelsond97daf8a7 February 18, 2016

this answer just sounded right even before I used it

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?

k2marketing.steve July 28, 2013

thanks guys those a record instructions above worked. thanks!

CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

A Record updated as mail189778 said its works, Thanks

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.

RMTech September 6, 2018

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

zedawow September 21, 2018

Thanks a lot man! <3

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