Sometimes you might notice that visitors can access your Podia site when entering www.yoursite.com, but not when entering yoursite.com without the "www".
This happens because the www and non-www versions of your domain are treated as separate addresses.
If your domain is managed through GoDaddy, you can set up domain forwarding to automatically redirect visitors from the non-www version of your domain to the www version connected to Podia.
In this article, we'll walk you through how to set up domain forwarding in GoDaddy.
Setting up forwarding to the naked domain
To ensure that your users will have access to your site via the non-www version of your address you will need to set up forwarding with GoDaddy in order to indicate that the non-www version should load the www version of your site.
For example, if you connected your custom domain to Podia with www.mysite.com, we need to go into your GoDaddy settings and set up a redirect for mysite.com to direct to www.mysite.com.
To complete this step, we'll head back to your Domain Portfolio.
Next, you will click the meatball menu and choose Edit DNS.
On the following page, you'll toggle to the Forwarding tab, and select Add forwarding, next to Domain.
Finally, you'll set up forwarding as shown below:
Once you click save, you will be all set!