How do I get my SCA site to work with non www when entered into address bar?

Take a look at Setting Up a URL Redirect that should be good enough to set up a redirect so everytime somebody request https://domain.com or http://domain.com it get redirected to www.domain.com.

For something this ‘simple’ it is best to do it with your domain host rather than rely on NetSuite. Some hosts have settings in their control panels specifically for this scenario, while others grant you access to write custom redirect rules.

There are some suggestions here saying that you should write a static A record pointing to a NetSuite IP address and while that may well work, I do want to point out that there are a number of pitfalls with this approach that we document here:

• NetSuite IP Address: https://system.netsuite.com/app/help/helpcenter.nl?fid=section_n251955.html
• Website Domains and Email Hosting: https://developers.suitecommerce.com/section4322255829

As previously mentioned, you can either do this using a URL redirect or you can create a CNAME entry in your DNS settings. Here is an example of how to set this up if your hosting is through 123-reg but most providers tend to act pretty similar.

To get it working you’ll want to add an entry where this hostname is “@”. I believe the alias will be the same as your other CNAME record with the www.

My DNS account didn’t like me adding the @ CNAME record.

I created a second Domain in NetSuite, as a redirect to the www domain, and it gave a CNAME  of eg: [domain.com.hostning.netsuite.com]

I then pinged [domain.com.hosting.netsuite.com] to get the IP, then used an ‘A’ entry on the DNS record using that IP address

Checkout SuiteAnswer:

You can use your root domain however, usually this domain is configured as an A record.

A Record is not a type that SCA encourages us to use due to the usage of CDN. If possible in your DNS provider, you may use the root domain and use CNAME instead — this type, would allow you to use the *.hosting.netsuite.com CNAME (ALIAS) and would ensure that your domain is data center agnostic and ip address friendly on having Custom Secured domain and/or CDN enabled.

You can point the A record to the NetSuite IP, the IP address vary between NetSuite servers.

Do you know which NS Server your website is hosted?