I’ve set up Discourse using the Discourse Standard Hosting discourse.org . Discourse is set up at the root domain: https://www.worldcitizen.io https://www. works, but https:// does not. https://www.worldcitizen.io navigates correctly to the Discourse setup with a Let’s Encrypt certificate. https:/…

You are referring to the apex (bare, root) domain versus the subdomain? example.com to www.example.com This is something you have to set up via DNS redirects and your DNS control panel – that’s usually done via same website you purchased your domain name from.

Thank you for your quick response. I just want both the apex root and the subdomain to work. Shouldn’t the DNS records written above already do that - with CNAMEs for both @ and www? Or do I need to set up a Forwarding URL in Page Rules on Cloudflare? https://worldcitizen.io/* // Forwarding URL …

Setup the cloudflare rule as: worldcitizen.io/* 301 https://www.worldcitizen.io/$1

Www works -- apex root domain does not

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 6, 2020, 12:23pm 5

See forcewww.com. It’s designed to solve your problem.

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