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

July 28, 2013 21.3k views
k2marketing.steve
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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
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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

  • 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 +++++

  • 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.

antarrbyrd September 30, 2015

Worked for me thanks @mail189778

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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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k2marketing.steve July 28, 2013
thanks guys those a record instructions above worked. thanks!
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CCTVBARCELONA September 18, 2017

A Record updated as mail189778 said its works, Thanks

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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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zedawow September 21, 2018

Thanks a lot man! <3

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