: Need help getting 'www' working for domains and subdomains using Apache & DNS I've searched through a lot of different posts asking this question and I haven't really seen a straight forward

@Martha676

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I've searched through a lot of different posts asking this question and I haven't really seen a straight forward answer on how to get this working.

At the moment, with the following settings, adding a www to the front of my domain or subdomain does not load the webpage, I get a redirection saying my domain can't be found.

Could someone explain how I can get domain.com and subdomain.domain.com to work?

Currently, I have the following DNS records:

EDIT: This is the DNS Records that worked AFTER closetnoc's answer

I did not have the CNAME's before

A @ 1.2.3.4
A subdomain 1.2.3.4
CNAME www domain.com.
CNAME subdomain subdomain.domain.com.


I also have a virtual host file as follows below, (and another one for the subdomain, but you get the gist). This is to force redirect to HTTPS:

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) %{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R,L]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/public_html

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/domain.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/domain.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/domain-bundle

<Directory "/path/to/public_html">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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