# Installed Discource on Digital Ocean, but now cannot install nginx?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installed-discource-on-digital-ocean-but-now-cannot-install-nginx/106361 "2019-01-12T16:24:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installed-discource-on-digital-ocean-but-now-cannot-install-nginx/106361/17 "2019-01-14T03:39:00Z")

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I did in fact have a CNAME record to redirect the `www`. to just [example.com](http://example.com). Do I not need that when using nginx? So just A records?

Before I deleted them, I had them routed to the correct droplet. I emptied my cache and hard reloaded on chrome and all is good. I deleted the DNS records, `www` now works, and without it took a few minutes but is now working. I’m still confused why it was redirecting `www` to the forum subdomain though.

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