tahoetech
(Dave Stewart)
May 6, 2022, 5:36pm
#1
how can i host with your hosted service and not use www
pfaffman
(Jay Pfaffman)
May 6, 2022, 6:04pm
#3
I think that he means hosted on the apex domain like example.com
rather than www.example.com
. I remember that there’s a way that some registrars will do a CNAME on an apex domain, but can’t find that topic.
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Falco
(Falco)
May 6, 2022, 6:47pm
#4
If you want to use our hosted service and host your instance at the apex domain you can follow
Most hosted discourse instances are on a subdomain:
forum.example.com
talk.example.com
www.example.com
This is our general recommendation in almost all cases, and it works great. However, if you wish to use a root domain or apex domain for your hosted discourse, like so
example.com
this turns out to be surprisingly difficult in a hosting scenario, due to the vagaries of how DNS works.
It is possible, however, you must use a DNS provider that specifically supports it! Here is a…
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