: The "www" subdomain for my site is not working, how do I fix it? I have a site http://example.tk. This is working fine. I have only an IP address for setup. Current configuration is 'A record'

@Vandalay111

You can do 1 of 2 things. You can either create a CNAME record for www pointing to xyz.tk. A CNAME record is essentially an alias record. The upside of this is that if you ever change to a different server, your www record won't need to change if you update the A record for xyz.tk. The downside is that it requires 2 DNS requests to actually update resolve the xyz.tk name. Itt goes once to ask for www, then when it's told it's an alias of xyz.tk, it has to go back to the nameserver a second time to get the A record for xyz.tk.

Your second option is to create an A record for www that simply has the same IP address as xyz.tk. The upside here is that it will only require a single DNS lookup instead of the 2 required with a CNAME. If you need to change your A record for xyz.tk at some point in the future, you'll need to update both. However this also leaves you the option of hosting your website (www) on one host, and other services on different hosts.

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@Nimeshi995

This just might be the shortest answer I have ever written...

You need to create a CNAME record in your DNS that points xyz.tk to xyz.tk.

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