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How to make naked domain to work?

Posted By j_g_harlow_gb

2/21/2024 02:00

I've been fiddling with this for quite a while now, and I honestly have tried pretty much which I've been able to find out there, but I still haven't been able to make my naked domain to work. The domain was bought through Dynadot (obviously), and it is working without problems when I'm using the www, but not as a naked domain. ie I can access www.bergonarchitects.co.uk but http://bergonarchitects.co.uk or https://bergonarchitects.co.uk do not work at all. The webpage is hosted in Google sites, if that helps. Can someone point me in the right direction? because I'm starting to get desperate with this...

At the moment, my dns settings look like:

Domain Record:

MX 10 mx.zoho.eu
MX 20 mx.zoho.eu
MX 50 mx.zoho.eu
TXT v=spf1 include:zoho.eu include:_spf.google.com ~all
TXT v=spf1 include:zoho.eu ~all
A 142.250.187.243

Subdomain Records:

zmail._domainkey TXT -txt file for mail-
www CNAME ghs.googlehosted.com

Many thanks

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Posted By glanglois

9/2/2024 05:53

Hi,

I know it's an old topic and I'm not sure if you already resolved but I've just managed to make it work and I'm replying the topics with the same problem.

So, I have the website hosted in Google sites and I was using the wwwizer.com redirect before when I had another domain provider. But this redirect configuration requires to add a A record pointing to ip 174.129.25.170. The problem is that Dynadot DNS settings wont't let me add CNAME and A record together. So, I could successfully make my naked domain work with the following settings

1. For DNS settings choose "Dynadot DNS"
2. In Domain Record add a 'Forward' type record (301) pointing to your domain begining with "http://www." (eg: http://www.yourwebsite.com)
3. In Subdomain Records add a 'CNAME' type record with the subdomain "www" and IP Address / Host as "ghs.googlehosted.com"
4. Save settings.

This seems to be also working for https without any further configuration.

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