www not working with Wordpress and Apache

Posted October 18, 2014

Hi,

I’ve installed Wordpress with Ubuntu (Apache) using the application and tutorial you provide. Using the Wordpress panel I changed the URL to http://www.mydomain.com but now it doesn’t work having the site crashed, but it works when I put http://mydomain.com. What am I doing wrong? I have this on my GoDaddy account:

A @ MY IP 1 day

CNAME ftp @ 1 hour www @ 1 hour

Thanks in advance!

info809302

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Kamal Nasser • October 19, 2014

Open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf in nano as root:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Find the line that says Servername your droplet's IP address (you can search by pressing Ctrl-W, typing your IP address, and pressing Enter) and make sure the line below it looks like this:

ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com yourdomain.com

Then, restart Apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

If that doesn’t fix it, can you post the actual domain name?

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