I saw in the setup guide and other questions that I need to use the same subdomain for Mailgun. So if I want to install Discourse at www.example.com , do i need to add www.example.com to Mailgun? Or example.com will work too?

example.com is sufficient. You will need forum.example.com or other subdomain if your Discourse is on a subdomain.

Ok, thanks. But I still need to use www.example.com for DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME in app.yml, right?

No. only the domain part - example.com or forum.example.com - depending on your setup.

You’ll make that setup in the DNS zone file. Create a CNAME record that sets www.example.com as an alias of example.com.

[image] Alex_P: hm, I thought www. is technically the same subdomain as forum. ? No. They are . . . different. I recommend that you configure mailgun to send from www.x.com so that if you decide that you want to do something with mail and x.com in the future it won’t be complicated by it sha…

[image] pfaffman: if you decide that you want to do something with mail and x.com in the future probably not, the domain is just for forum. Also in this case I probably can just use another subdomain in the future like mail.x.com? I think I never saw anyone sending from foo@www.... Tried to …

So what I ended up doing was: Verify example.com with Mailgun Install Discourse at www.example.com The email arrived, but from unusual noreply@www.example.com instead of noreply@example.com . So I set the email via docker exec -it app rails r 'puts SiteSetting.notification_email = "noreply@example.…

How should I setup with www. domain?

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Alex_P (Alex P.) December 3, 2019, 8:26pm 5

hm, I thought www. is technically the same subdomain as forum.?

I want Discourse to be at www.example.com (and example.com redirects to www.)

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How should I setup with www. domain?

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