setup a domain with no www prefix

Applications IP Networking
1

Not sure if this is the right forum for this so I apologize.
I am setting up zone records for a domain that will be forwarding to another domain. Right now if you go to www.mydomain.com it forwards to the correct site. but when i go to mydomain.com and just goes to an apache holder page. How do I get mydomain.com to forward to the the other site like www.mydomain does?

This how I have the records are setup now

       NS     ns1.domainserver.com
       NS     ns2.domainserver.com
       NS     ns3.domainserver.com
       A      216.117.xxx.xxx

www A 216.117.xxx.xxx

Also right now if I do an nslookup for both www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com they are pointing to the correct ip address. So I must be messing something to get mydomain.com to resolve/forward to the other site.

Thanks!

2

You have something setup wrong on the server hosting the website. If you use apache make sure that you have mydomain.com in the Serveralias section in the virtual host.

3

this is weird apparently the company that owns the domain who we are hosting told me they are in control of the records and to delete the A and www record on our end . that they will just point to our server.
Is that correct?

4

That would only make sense if your domain uses dns servers on their server as well as your server. I highly doubt that is the case though.

You can check what nameservers your domain is using here: