My discourse forum is accessible only from the IP address, not forum.example.com In this post Jeff Atwood states: PLEASE do not link to advice that tells people to set their DNS servers to digital ocean’s. That is seriously toxic. (and why is DO telling people to do this? Awful.) Rather, all t…

Unless you have a specific reason to have two names point to your Discourse, then it would be better to just create one A record.

We can’t really tell without your hostname. You can do things like this to see if your domain is resolving correctly: dig test.com # does the name resolve? dig test.com @8.8.8.8 # does Google think so? whois test.com dig test.com @NAME SERVER LISTED IN WHOIS results

OK I got it working like this please confirm if this is optimal or if there is a better method? A server 128.199.115.233 CNAME forum server.example.com per this topic

Discourse is only accessible by IP address

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railsnoob January 31, 2017, 12:21am 5

You are correct. The trouble it seems I was having was that my browser keep insisting on inserting www in front of forum.example.com

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