[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Demo Day

Paul Mellors paul at paulmellors.net
Thu Mar 6 19:05:33 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:59 +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 3/6/08, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
>         And as Paul said, the www is just case of adding a "cname"
>         record to the DNS.
> 
> Sorry... I'd read that the wrong way around... if you *require* www to
> resolve then the virtual domain on the server has been set up with a
> "www." prefix on it, which is a common mistake... the domain needs to
> be hosted WITHOUT the www and then the www needs to be set via cname
> to point to the domain itself.
> 
> Sean

I wouldn't use a CNAME i would just add two A records, a blank one and
and *, that would do it.





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