Making 'www' work with Discourse

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I have a similar issue and using a URL redirect record at the DNS level doesn’t solve the problem for me.

I installed Discourse using the hostname ‘www.example.com’ and the following DNS records:

A Record             host:WWW      value:my_server_ip
CNAME                host:@        value: www.example.com
URL Redirect Record  host:@        value:https://www.example.com

If I then use SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs) to check the URL https://example.com without the WWW I get a Certificate name mismatch and in my browser a NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error.

Apologies again if I’m missing something obvious here, networking isn’t my strong point!