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I have a Windows server. I have several websites hosted on my server. Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include "www" (e.g., www.techtint.com).

I want the naked form of the URL to redirect to the www URL. I don't want a duplicate version of the website, but just want to permanently re-direct all the traffic to the naked URL to www.mysite.com.

I know it has something to do with A records and CNAME record, but it is all very confusing. Can someone explain to me in details on how I can accomplish this?

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Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include www. Eg:www.techtint.com

It appears that your DNS configuration has some issues: As indicated in the DNS health reports below, the nameservers for your domain are not resolving properly, and there are no MX (mailserver) records either. It does appear that you have A and CNAME records for the www subdomain however:

DNS health check

DNS health full report

Therefore, I would suggest working with your DNS provider (e.g., your domain registrar, webhosting/ISP company, or third-party DNS service) to resolve these DNS issues first.

I want the naked form of the URL to redirect to www.

If you want the root domain (techtint.com) to be accessible but redirected to the www subdomain, first you'll need to have an A record for the root domain that points to the same IP address as the A record for the www subdomain does (i.e., 96.127.134.97).

Next you'll want to add your root domain as a site in IIS7 as detailed in the steps here: Create a new site in IIS 7

After your root domain is reachable from a browser (note that it can take up to 72 hours for DNS changes to propagate throughout the Internet), you'll want to redirect the root domain to the www subdomain as covered here: IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www

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  • You shouldn't need to create a separate site in IIS for the root domain and then redirect it, you can do all of that with one site: Set up the site to respond on both techint.com and www.techint.com host headers, and then use the URL Rewrite Module to enable the "Canonical Domain Name" template in the SEO Rule Templates section.
    – Zhaph - Ben Duguid
    Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 16:40
  • Not sure if the net results would be any different, but maybe you can explain how to do this for the OP and the benefits.
    – dan ♦
    Commented Sep 1, 2013 at 20:44

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