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Hello. Does anybody have detailed instruction of how to set DNS for domain purchased on IONOS? The best I managed to do was to set subdomain www.mypage.com with CNAME from pythanywhere and it worked but only with www in the adress. When typing just mypage.com in the browser it sends me to mypage/defaultpage. Tried to find solution but help section in IONOS don't cover it, also people from IONOS tried and nothing so far. Any detailed instruction on how to do it?

Would like to know this too, I have the same problem since setting it up last week. I read that there was extra AAAA records that needed deleted in the domain set up that fix this, not too sure though.

Take a look at Naked domains | PythonAnywhere help

I managed to get this sorted, so for anyone with an ionos domain this is what I did:

1. I already had my domain pointing to my pythonanywhere webapp.
2. Create an account with nakedssl and copy the IP address it gives you.
3. Go into your ionos account and delete any A or AAAA record that relates to webhosting, you can leave the ones for Mail there.
4. Create a new A record with the hostname ‘@‘ and paste in the nakedssl in address in the ‘point to’ box and select save - at this piount it will tell you it conflicts with the CNAME you have for the webapp but click save and it will delete the CNAME record for your webapp.
5. Create a new CNAME to point to your webapp and save.
6. Check back later after it all syncs and that’s you, now you can type in your web address without the www prefix and it works.

Many thanks for posting that! Those steps are the ones I would expect, apart from the weird thing they do at step 4 -- it's very strange that they delete the CNAME for "www" when you're creating an A record for "@", and I'm glad you worked out a solution -- and we're grateful to you for documenting it here :-)

Thank you Did you point domain or subdomain www to python anywhere? Which SSL did you use? One from IONOS or one from Python Anywhere?

I pointed it to www.xxx.com and the SSL are enabled for both pythonanywhere and ionos.

I did all and works fine I guess. Thank you.