Testing Free Static Sites - Query About WWW Domain

Static Sites Questions
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Howdy folks,

I’ve signed up to Kinsta yesterday and created a new site and linked up my domain fine.

I just have two things that I cannot find information on.

  1. When I visit mydomain.com - all is well, and my site loads, but when I visit www.mydomain.com I get This site can’t provide a secure connection error. Any idea how I make the www version accessible?
  2. How might I go about redirecting the non www version to the www version.

Many thanks for your help.

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Ok, I’ve got the www bit sorted out.

Last part of the puzzle is redirecting non-www to www.

Ta

3

Last part of the puzzle is redirecting non-www to www.

I’m having the same issue –– how do I do this redirect without access to a .htaccess file?

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I’m having the same issue.

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Hi all :wave:

Thank you for reaching us out!

While we could add both www and non-www domain (verified them and assigned them with SSL certs) in the “Domains” section of the Static Site - and then the static site’s URL in question could be loaded/accessed from both www and non-www URLs - but currently we don’t have a built-in redirect feature for this specific needs yet (from: non-www to www , or from: non-www to www) in our Static site hosting service.

We’ve asked/reported this case to our internal Devs/Engineering team. They’re actively working to include more features like this in the future - though we can’t tell when it will be ready/available.

In the meantime, as a workaround for the 301-redirect issue mentioned above, you may need to get your own CloudFlare account for your domain(s) and then add/setup a page rule in your CloudFlare account to handle such redirects (e.g.: from non-www to www).

Best regards,
Agus

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I created a domain redirect record from www to non-www and it’s working now.

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Nice one @RMVolleyball ! Glad to hear that method works for you! :+1:

Cheers,
Agus