I'm trying host my website using linode, but it's not working for me.
You're warned I'm not technical. I want to host my website on the cloud so I bought/rented the linode for $10 a month. I installed cyber panel successfully using a video off of youtube. My problem is that the site coolbunks.com is not working for me. I keep getting this error from google: This site can’t be reached coolbunks.com’s server IP address could not be found.
Search Google for coolwinks
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.
Relevant info.
Im pointing the domain from google to linode.
My Google DNS INFO:
Google Name serves are pointing to ns1.linode.com - ns5.linode.com
Host name = www.coolbunks.com
IPv4 Address = 45.56.113.113
Linode Domain Info is:
Primary Domain: coolbunks.com
email: (do you need that?)
default TTL: default
refresh rate: default
retry rate: default
expire time: default
NS Record
ns1.linode.com - ns5.linode.com
subdomain: coolbunks.com
TTL: default
MX record: left blank
A/AAA: hostname: www | ip address: 45.56.113.113 | TTL: default
left everything else blank.
Cpanel through Cyber Panel info:
website loads up with this url: https://45.56.113.113:8090/preview/coolbunks.com/
website will not load up with this url: coolbunks.com
Help me please. Thank you for reading this.
3 Replies
You have an A record for www, but do not have one for just the domain.
The error 'ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED' that you see is after your webserver is redirecting to the non-www name.
With curl, I can see the redirect:
$ curl --head http://www.coolbunks.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-Redirect-By: WordPress
Location: http://coolbunks.com/
X-Litespeed-Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 04:47:11 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: Keep-Alive
That's a valid http response that is doing a 301 redirect.
Trying it without the www:
$ curl --head http://coolbunks.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: coolbunks.com
So, either create another A record pointed to the same IP, just leave the hostname bit blank - or tell your wordpress install to stop forcing the non-www name.
Hey millisa, I get what you're saying, but I have no idea how to implement it. To mirror back what you said, you said I could A change my "A" settings of my Linode, by leaving out the hostname and just putting the IP address? I did that after I read your response and nothing changed.
As far as getting the wordpress install to stop doing that? I don't even know where to begin…