How can i host with your hosted service and not use www

[tahoetech (Dave Stewart)]

how can i host with your hosted service and not use www

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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.

[Falco]

If you want to use our hosted service and host your instance at the apex domain you can follow

Configure your hosted domain name at the root (example.com)

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…