Adding www to my site?

Hi, will someone please guide me on how to add a www to my addon domain in my cpanel? The addon domain I added is displayed only when I type in http://domain.com but not when I type in www.domain.com

Thanks
bnts

 

if you have added the domain recently (and changed nameservers), then give it 1-2 days for propagation, else your zone records has a missing A record for www.

 

Just now, I realised that the www format is indeed working when someone tried to open it up. But it is still not working here. I will wait for some days and see.

Thanks for the reply agnivo007

 

no problem...keep us updated.

 

cPanel actually creates a cname record for WWW, as well as FTP, with every new account that's created.

 

Does this imply also to every new addon domain added to an existing account? I am still waiting to see a www before my domain. http:// mysite.com is working but http:// www. mysite.com still not available

 

What's your site then?
I'll give it a try

 

Check this: http://www.jmoca.net/ and http://jmoca.net/

Thanks Richie

 

Both are working fine!
Nice blog there!

 

BOth are working fine, but they didnt work ( only http://jmoca.net/ that work, if you recentely change the server )

 

But here only http://jmoca.net is working And thanks for the complement (though I have just installed new WP )

Yes, I just changed the server and haven't yet updated the blog even. I think I should wait for it to get updated to www form

Thanks Pammer and Richie, I think it should also work here soon.

@Pammer: hey I will reply your secret question soon, cos I can't right now

 

007s right, I had the same issue, this usually fixes it.

 

Hi, Proxy122, has your issue been fixed? how many days it took to propagate the update in your case?

Thanks,
bnts

 

Each work okay for me. Your computer is probably holding a cache of the www. record returning an NXDOMAIN error.

Check the domain on dnsreport.com next time you have trouble. If that doesn't work, check squish.net/dnscheck/ .

 

Oh..thanks for this two links - dnsreport.com and squish.net , just realized that both are working fine here also now

Thanks everyone for the input.
Cheers,
bnts

 

You can clear your local DNS/ARP cache (windows pc) by right clicking the LAN icon on system tray > Repair.

 

it can also be done using .htaccess file. search on google u will find the code to add.

 

Thanks for all the advice guys.
@jac666: Never done any .htaccess before, though I will search it right now thanks.
@agnivo: Thanks for that

 

jac666, thats not what bnts requires in this thread.

Anyway, if someone requires .htaccess code for http - > www redirection, its:

RewriteEngine On

## Custom Direct all to www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

Replace "domain" and "com" with respective values.

 

hmm...never noticed there's a difference, thanks for these info.