Domain: redirect www to non-www
I just recently removed the Webflow A records from my DNS zone records. After a few hours, the naked domain (mydomain.com) was already pointing back to my hosting provider. I imported the new website there, and everything is working just fine.
The old site was using a www subdomain. When I opened www.mydomain.com in my browser, it showed the old site.
Possible solutions I tried but nothing worked:
- Added www to non-www 301 redirects in .htaccess file.
- Added a wildcard redirect to the same domain.
- Changed WordPress Site URL to have www.
- Looked for "www" in the Zone Records and the closest one I found was _acme-challenge.www.mydomain.com and I guess this is just for SSL.
Is it just a cache or is there something I need to do?
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on your dns, did you make a CNAME for www that points to your nonwww page?
and in case you did, have they had enough time to propagate? https://www.whatsmydns.net/
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Wow! Yeah, I just found a record that points to
proxy-ssl.webflow.com and replaced it with my naked domain mydomain.com.
Thank you so much! What a legend!
This is a great tool! I didn't know something like this existed!
We were just doing it manually by keeping our eyes out to see if the DNS has already propagated. 😄
Thank you so much!