Question
www CNAME problem in DNS section
- Posted February 13, 2015
I have a domain from Godaddy.com , name is cihankoseoglu.com
I set up a ghost blog, and because i have custom domain gmail service on the domain i changed the nameservers to digital ocean and then added the MX records. the A record points to the IP address and everything seems fine.
Except that it isn’t. I can reach the website when I type *cihankoseoglu.com * but when I type www.cihankoseoglu.com i can’t reach the website. I tried messing with the CNAME record but to no avail.
I tried the solution in the following link, did not work. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/i-want-both-www-and-the-root-domain-to-point-at-my-ghost-blog-how-do-i-do-this
Thanks for the help
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Similar issue here. If I create 2 CNAMEs pointing at my droplet:
- test1.mydomain.io
- www.mydomain.io Then I’ll be immediately able to ping test1.mydomain.io, whereas I will get “cannot resolve www.mydomain.io: Unknown host” when pinging www.mydomain.io.
If you have an A record for @ pointed to your IP address you should just need to add the following CNAME record:
CNAME www @
Interestingly, I encountered the same problem, also with a ghost-based blog. I’ll just wait some time and see…
After couple of hours this is now woking. So it seems like, after properly configuring the options, all you have to do is to wait for a while.
I have the same problem. I can access my domain via “domain.com” but not via “www.domain.com” My set up is identical to what’s in the https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean
CNAME is pointing to @ and @ is pointing to my droplet. Perhaps I should give it some time.
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I have the same issue and have waited 8+ hours for propagation to no success:
[works] A and AAA records for @ [fails with site cannot be reached] CNAME www @
Edit: I just realised ‘propagation’ doesn’t occur and I need to instead wait for cached records to expire - I may have incorrectly configured my previous CNAME and then after fixing it now I need to wait for the 12 hour cache it was set at to expire.