Why do you want to add an A record to your DNS?

To add a redirect for "www.mydomain.com". Currently, my site is only viewable at "https://mydomain.com".

you can add more than one custom domain if you're still looking for www support (which seems unnecesary in modern age)

Or you can redirect to your main domain at the DNS level

It's not recommended to use IPs cause the IP can change between deployments

I think I need to upgrade to the hobby plan for that. Right now I only have my “example.com” active in Railway and it says I’ve run out of custom domains. I wanted to add “www.example.com” because when users enter “www.example.com” vs “example.com” the website can’t be reached.

I did try adding a redirect in my Namecheap cPanel but that hasn’t worked 🙃

namecheap's redirect records don't work that way unfortunately

I'm also on namecheap, and I ended up just using domain-forward.com

its been working pretty nicely thus far

So your domain is accessible at “www” and the base domain? If so, are there any docs available for setting that up?

It depends on the method you're using

1. You can do what Thalles suggested and add the www domain to your Railway service too so that it supports both, in this case you can find docs for that here:
2. You can forward traffic from www to your main domain by using something like a DNS level redirect or domain-forward.com, I don't think Railway has docs for this because this is not strictly related to Railway

Alright, and no problem

good luck 🫡

Are you sure that it's working for you? As per namecheap documentation:

Redirecting with a secure connection (HTTPS) is only possible to a different destination domain (e.g. http://www.domain.tld to https://www.anotherdomain.tld)

Unless you have the Namecheap SSL plugin on cPanel?

I didn’t have to use the cPanel. There’s a section in the dashboard that has an option to set a redirect. I’ve added a screenshot in the thread.

Yea I saw, though from what I know there is no world where that should work

but I guess if it works for you then alls well that ends well

It’s the only thing I have set up that would add this behavior. If there’s anything I missed, I will update this thread!

Alright awesome, glad it worked out then

!s

My friend, it indeed did not work out LOL I tested visiting my site on a friends device and got nothing. After signing up for the Hobby Plan I was able to add another domain for my “www” and all is good now.

Oh perfect, thanks for the update