Directing example.com to www.example.com

Question

I have a Django website in DigitalOcean, everything works fine expect routing example.com to www.example.com

I normally fix this using CNAME as the following, and all answers I have found also provide this, but it doesn't work in my case:

Hostname   Alias Of    TTL(Seconds)
www          @         43200

This normally works in GoDaddy, but in DigitalOcean the www.example.com takes me to the welcome to Nginx page.

So how can I get the www.@.com to display the website?

If the request reaches your webserver, it means it is not a DNS problem, but a webserver configuration problem, as you seem to have discovered. — Patrick Mevzek, Nov 19 '18 at 17:49
hi does adding .example.com make the site vulnerable to HTTP Response splitting or any other? — Muhika Thomas, Nov 21 '18 at 11:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 19 '18 at 17:50

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To future enquirers, I found a solution.

When using gunicorn and nginx as I have done in DigitalOcean

In /etc/nginx/sites-available/site-name

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name .example.com;

in server_name add .example.com, with emphasies to the . before example.com and make your CNAME record as I had described in the question.

edited Nov 19 '18 at 17:50

Patrick Mevzek

answered Nov 19 '18 at 09:22

Muhika Thomas

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