Excuse my ignorance. I am new to aapanel and running a web server. I am having a problem with the website I have set up on aapanel. My Wordpress website is located at mydomain.com (no www) and works as expected. However if I visit www.mydomain.com I get an error. I want it to always forward a visit to www on to the root. If I understand correctly I have to add a redirect and also add the www subdomain but I can't make it work. This is what I have tried so far: In my DNS server, I have an A record for mydomain.com pointing at the IP address of the server. I have a CNAME record for www.mydomain.com pointing at mydomain.com I setup my Wordpress site using WP Toolkit, using mydomain.com domain (no www). I applied an SSL certificate to the domain from Let's Encrypt, and set it to force https Under WP Toolkit > Modify > Domain Manager, I added www.mydomain.com. (mydomain.com was already there) Under WP Toolkit > Modify > Config > Redirect, I added a 301 redirection, Type - domain name, source - www.mydomain.com, target - https://mydomain.com . Keep URI param is ticked. Rule is enabled. I set all this but it still does not work. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? -

Help making www.mydomain.com always go to mydomain.com

aaP_olly

Excuse my ignorance. I am new to aapanel and running a web server. I am having a problem with the website I have set up on aapanel. My Wordpress website is located at mydomain.com (no www) and works as expected. However if I visit www.mydomain.com I get an error. I want it to always forward a visit to www on to the root.

If I understand correctly I have to add a redirect and also add the www subdomain but I can't make it work. This is what I have tried so far:

In my DNS server, I have an A record for mydomain.com pointing at the IP address of the server. I have a CNAME record for www.mydomain.com pointing at mydomain.com
I setup my Wordpress site using WP Toolkit, using mydomain.com domain (no www). I applied an SSL certificate to the domain from Let's Encrypt, and set it to force https
Under WP Toolkit > Modify > Domain Manager, I added www.mydomain.com. (mydomain.com was already there)
Under WP Toolkit > Modify > Config > Redirect, I added a 301 redirection, Type - domain name, source - www.mydomain.com, target - https://mydomain.com. Keep URI param is ticked. Rule is enabled.

I set all this but it still does not work. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

aaPanel_Kern

Hello, is the problem solved? Will the added Cname resolution take effect?

aaP_olly

aaP_alicanselcuk

You need to edit the domain DNS records from the panel of the company where you have your domain registration and add a CNAME record. You need to define www to domain.com. If you search "domain cname www" on Google or YouTube, you will find many guides. It is a very simple process that will take 1-2 minutes.

aaP_olly

aaP_alicanselcuk Yes, I already did this as I mentioned above. I said DNS server, but I meant my DNS records with the registrar.

aaP_olly

aaPanel_Kern I think there was a problem with aaPanel. I eventually rolled back to a backup from two days ago and now the www subdomains for each website appear to automatically redirect to the primary root domain which was not happening before. Perhaps this is how it is always meant to work? Getting aaPanel to work is proving to be a massive headache.