Unable to redirect naked domain to www domain

Nikhil

Hello, I want to redirect naked/root domain to www domain. I have read this article and gave a try to WWW-izer by pointing A record to 174.129.25.170 with CNAME record pointing www to flarum URL in GoDaddy but this does not seem to be working.
Godaddy provides 301 redirect option. Do you think redirecting root domain to www domain will work? If not what can be the possible solution to this?

clarkwinkelmann

Nikhil but this does not seem to be working

How did you test ? Maybe the DNS records weren't yet updated ?

Do you mind giving us the domain name so we can take a look at the current situation ?

The GoDaddy 301 redirect should also be a valid option if it redirects all requests to the first domain to another domain like the name seems to indicate.

Nikhil

I just tried opening the forum. It wasn't redirecting to www domain. It's been more than 24 hours since I updated records. And I am sure GoDaddy does not take this long to update records. https://askpsychology.com is the forum. I know I am going wrong somewhere but unable to figure out.

jordanjay29

Nikhil The site could be cached in your personal DNS records or your ISP's, as well. Try on a different browser/machine/network.

askpsychology.com properly redirects to www.askpsychology.com for me.

Nikhil

jordanjay29 Oh Yeah, Thanks! I can see askpsychology.com properly redirects to www.askpsychology.com. But https://askpsychology.com does not redirect. Can this also be a cache issue?

clarkwinkelmann

Nikhil I suppose it's just an HTTPS issue. You need a redirect service that will have a certificate for your domain.

WWW-izer claim they do, but I suppose it's only for their paid plan.

Maybe GoDaddy does setup a certificate for you, I don't know.

If you host your DNS with Namecheap or Cloudflare you could use an "ANAME" record and let FreeFlarum take care of it (as described in their docs), but it requires an hosting that supports one of those fakes CNAMEs. Or if you use Cloudflare you could even setup the redirect right in Cloudflare and it would be HTTPS-enabled.

If you stay on GoDaddy DNS and can't setup the HTTPS redirect, maybe contact the FreeFlarum support email and ask if you can setup an A record to FreeFlarum instead. Maybe they can allow it for you, but there's good reasons they wouldn't offer it in the official docs.

Nikhil

clarkwinkelmann I think it's better I use Cloudflare. Can you check these records? Did I point it correctly? These are in Cloudflare.