Www.example.com OK, but example.com NOT

[John_Smith3 (John Smith)]

Aloha!

When I type www.mydomain.com into a browser it goes to my Discourse site, however, when I type mydomain.com (without www.) it does not.

I followed Discourse’s GoDaddy set up exactly, can anyone explain how to get the mydomain.com to work?

Mahalo.

[endukugga (Alfonso Muñoz Pomer Fuentes)]

This issue has nothing to do with Discourse and it’s about your domain DNS records. From your description it looks like you have an A record for the subdomain www pointing at the IP address where you’re hosting Discourse, which is different to the root domain (usually an A record with the name @). I’ve never used GoDaddy, so it’s better if you browse through their help section unless somebody else here can help you out.

[merefield (Robert)]

It’s likely more than that. You also need to deal with Let’s Encrypt and your proxy to make this work if you are using https (like you should!)

See:

Setting up Let’s Encrypt with Multiple Domains

If you do not have https configured already (you do if you have done a standard install recently) see Setting up Let’s Encrypt as your first step, Step 1 - letsencrypt It’s pretty simple really, add something like the following to your app.yml hooks section: after_ssl: - replace: filename: "/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt" from: /--keylength/ to: "-d second-domain.com -d www.second-domain.com -d other-domain.com -d www.other-domain.com --keylength" If you just want to…

If I were you, keep it simple and use only one.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Configure the @ record for your domain as an A record to 45.55.96.103

This leverages our (free) service that redirects anything.tld to www.anything.tld.