domain with or without www

[ptamdagr8]

I've this domain name running as my blog - http://designspebam.com
I'm using google app with it and so I've changed my CNAME at my DNS settings to what has been told at my google app dashboard.
If I type http://www.designspebam.com, my site is not available showing an error 404 (which is through a google page), but i can see my site at http://designspebam.com (without the www).
So can anybody please tell me what's it all about???

[webprofession]

I think, you have made some mistake while changing CNAME.

Post here what you have done...

Because this thing is working properly for me.
http:// hikotech . org
http:// www . hikotech . org
http:// mail . hikotech . org

[ptamdagr8]

I didn't change the Cname myself.. i let the suppoort team of my domain hosting company changed it. They have send me this

"The CNAME record of the domain www.designspebam.com has modified to
*ghs.google.com as per your request."

after that, i rename the url to the mail service as mail.designspebam.com, but pointing the browser to that url leads me to simple www.google.com.

[ptamdagr8]

is that because of the ' * ' they had put before ghs.google.com. I thought it was some typing mistake??

[webprofession]

There are 2 errors in this.

1) *. I thing, there is no need of * in CNAME.

2) you should not modify www.yourdomain.com for google app(email)
you should create CNAME mail.yourdomain.com instead of it.
otherwise what will happen, when use visits www.yourdomain.com, he/she will be redirected to google app email page.

right now this is happened,
when anyone use www with your domain,
he/she is being redirect to google app.
but invalid (*) is there, so google app's error is displayed on that page.

So, Change it.

[ptamdagr8]

Originally Posted by webprofession

There are 2 errors in this.

ok i'll try looking into it...

i couldn't find my Total DNS control area in my godaddy account, i've tried asking them, but they've not even replied it. can anybody help me.. i need to see my CNAME settings on my own...

All i could see was an area where it is written "Total DNS: (not hosted here)"... wat does this mean???