Trouble shooting "www"

[user16020]

HI,

I’m kind of new with all this and is self teaching myself everything so please be patient. I currently have my domain “example.com” being point to my public domain for a website. However, I would also like the domain to point to a private network IP for the admin side of it. I used the configuration provided to me by the self-hosted platform but it’s configured to have “www.mydomain.com” be pointed to the admin private network IP and just “mydomain.com” with the “@” and “*” DNS name set to my public IP. Essentially, i would like to have them reverse or would it be easier to just set a subdomain for the admin site?

[Cyb3r-Jak3]

It sounds like would just need to swap the IPs in the DNS records so that IP configured for www goes to the @ and the @ IP goes to www

[user16020]

Unfortunately, this is what my DNS settings ended up like. It doesn’t have my private IP at all…

The config file below

; Basic ipv4/ipv6 records
@ 3600 IN A 73.169.169.11
@ 3600 IN AAAA 2601:601:100:fab0:48ca:1cff:fe1d:90fb

; Mail
@ 3600 IN MX 10 thaicafe.club.
@ 3600 IN TXT “v=spf1 a mx -all”
mail._domainkey 3600 IN TXT “v=DKIM1; h=sha256; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCy7wsneYqd3Ny3BySUIt6HhaQB+6a5EqjYySzNckbnTT2yFaPPUkOvuA+VL3m4ypQ8Mhrx/cd6A+ZIvPmz+qpHEhdlWjmdcJqUlIS0KzVJ+aqc0nmOmBIyLgPUmlk2YBtJnQ5k9cIHMxYnSLnWWR37PaAKLBPSCaFopHHrCCJOAwIDAQAB”
_dmarc 3600 IN TXT “v=DMARC1; p=none”

; XMPP
_xmpp-client._tcp 3600 IN SRV 0 5 5222 thaicafe.club.
_xmpp-server._tcp 3600 IN SRV 0 5 5269 thaicafe.club.
muc 3600 IN CNAME @
pubsub 3600 IN CNAME @
vjud 3600 IN CNAME @
xmpp-upload 3600 IN CNAME @; Extra

• 3600 IN A 73.169.169.11
• 3600 IN AAAA 2601:601:100:fab0:48ca:1cff:fe1d:90fb
  @ 3600 IN CAA 128 issue “letsencrypt.org”

[sdayman]

I suggest you not use AAAA records for now. That should make it easier to manage while you work through this.

If you want to use a ‘www’ hostname, I suggest you explicitly set that in DNS. The wildcard will cover anything else that’s not specified.