How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager

Question

so I've set www.mydomain.com to point to ghs.google.com, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to mydomain.com, it doesn't redirect/forward to www.mydomain.com, it just hangs. is there a way to change this in the Godaddy DNS manager?

Solution

It's not a DNS setting; you need to set up a redirect from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. Fortunately, Godaddy provides this service for free; follow the directions at https://ph.godaddy.com/help/forward-a-domain-12123

Comments

[Admin]

I had a goDaddy account and their support is actually nice. Give them a call and they'll help you. Other than that I don't think this is the place for such a question.

[Abdulsattar Mohammed]

Does this forward http://example.com/something to http://www.example.com/something or does it ignore the rest of the URL?

[Adam Eberbach]

@CodingTales: yes, it will redirect all requests to the same URL with just the hostname replaced.

[kittu]

I have domain with godaddy called bgrnature.com and when I type bgrnature.com, its not forwarding to the site. I had to add www prefix. How can I use it without type www as prefix?

[Daniel]

@kittu Forward the domain name to www.bgrnature.com

[Tom Söderlund]

I think this is a better fit with the original question (forwarding a root domain → www): ph.godaddy.com/help/…