Nameserver question

thedarkfox

Kind of a noob question here but how do I set my nameservers correctly so that my site pulls up with or without the www? Right now y subdomains only open without the www

Thanks

Ishaq

Add the www A or CNAME record for the subdomains.

painfreepc

@thedarkfox said:
Right now y subdomains only open without the www

subdomains don't use www,

www is a subdomain

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Try not to use CNAME, unless there is no alternative and do not every use CNAME for MX record,

only time that a CNAME is required is when you want to alias a host in the current domain to an external domain.

when you use a cname you are making the dns server do more work,

if using configuration below, the dns server will need to lookup A record

for painfreepc.com to get ip for www.painfreepc.com and ftp.painfreepc.com

painfreepc.com.           +14400     A   162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~
www.painfreepc.com.       +14400   CNAME    painfreepc.com.
ftp.painfreepc.com.       +14400   CNAME    painfreepc.com.

Below is Maradns zone file (without CNAME ) for my domain painfreepc.com

http://www.dnsinspect.com/painfreepc.com/1389803933

( yes i know marsdns has a shortcut to append the domain name )

painfreepc.com.        SOA    ns1.painfreepc.com. dnsmaster.painfreepc.com. 2014010810 14400 3600 604800 14400 ~ 
painfreepc.com.         +14400     NS   ns1.painfreepc.com. ~
painfreepc.com.         +14400     NS   ns2.painfreepc.com. ~
painfreepc.com.         +14400    TXT   'v=spf1 mx -all' ~
painfreepc.com.         +14400    SPF   'v=spf1 mx -all' ~
ns1.painfreepc.com.     +14400     A   162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if dns not this domain, don't add this
ns2.painfreepc.com.     +14400     A   209.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if dns not this domain, don't add this
painfreepc.com.         +14400     A   162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~
www.painfreepc.com.     +14400   A    162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~
ftp.painfreepc.com.     +14400   A    162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~
pop.painfreepc.com.  +14400  A  162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
pop3.painfreepc.com.  +14400  A 162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
smtp.painfreepc.com.  +14400  A 162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
imap.painfreepc.com.  +14400  A 162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
imap4.painfreepc.com.   +14400  A   162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
mail.painfreepc.com.    +14400   A    162.xxx.xxx.xxx ~ # if not your email domain, don't add this
painfreepc.com.         +14400     MX 10 mail.painfreepc.com. ~

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Also www (ServerAlias) needs to be in the VirtualHost

     <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAlias www.example.com