www. prefix not working for my web domains, only works without www.mydomainname..

[audaciousweb]

I set up an apache mysql server on my ubuntu cloud server its working fine except that when I type in www.mydomainname.com (http://www.mydomainname.com) it does not work but only works directly with http://mydomainname.com

As I understand this has to do with the DNS server so I am wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction as to what I need to install on my Ubuntu server to set it up so it is accessible through www.. (http://www..). or is this something that has to do with my domain name registrar or cloud hosting company?

Thanks for any advice as I'm kind of lost when it comes to DNS issues.

[R.Bucky]

Take a look at your A record and make sure that you have a www pointed at your ip

[raisinglinux]

Are you hosting your own dns or are you using your hosts control panel?


// Replace the IP address with the right IP addresses.
www IN A 192.168.0.2




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[audaciousweb]

Thanks for the replies, yeah I think its something I can do through the cloud host's control panel, I need to just add the A record as you suggested.