Netlify and Namecheap: when adding www to my url, the website shows security concerns. Why?
Have a website for a client hosted on Netlify with the domain through Namecheap. I really don't know much about what a DNS is or what any of these things mean so please, please explain thoroughly the exact steps.
I need the email forwarding so while using the nameservers was an easy way to start, netlify has no email forwarding option and namecheap won't offer if you're not using their nameservers. In my netlify domains, I have the domain purchased from namecheap listed, with the DNS records having a url without www. preceding it, and one that does, both with 3600 IN NETLIFY next to it (I don't know what this means at all)
In advanced DNS under namecheap, I have added two records, A Record with a host @, a value of 75.2.60.5, and the TTL Automatic. I also have a CNAME record with the host www and value is the url without the www. preceding it with the TTL as automatic. Is this right? I tried to use the other settings with the Alias records but nothing happened when I did this. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.
I'm clearly missing a major way this system works, but I've got no clue. Any help would be appreciated.
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