Resolve domain without www

I did a lot of googling on this topic, and none of the answers seem to help. So, here we go.

Able to resolve:
www.shopgme.com

Unable to resolve:
shopgme.com --> hits default Apache index page.

I have 2 entries in /etc/apache2/sites-available, one for port 80, another for 443

I have also added 2 A records (in linode), one with www, and one blank… both with the same IP.

Even tried editing my /etc/hosts file to do the whole "private ip hostname.domain.com hostname", which didn't seem to help me either.

The blocks in my config files look like this:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/greymatter-store.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.

        ServerName www.shopgme.com
        ServerAlias shopgme.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.shopgme.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/greymatter-store-le-ssl.conf

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.

        ServerName www.shopgme.com
        ServerAlias shopgme.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

        Alias /static /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/static
        <Directory /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/static>
                Require all granted
        </Directory>

        Alias /media /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/media
        <Directory /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/media>
                Require all granted
        </Directory>

        <Directory /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/greymatter>
                <Files wsgi.py>
                        Require all granted
                </Files>
        </Directory>

        WSGIScriptAlias / /home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/greymatter/wsgi.py
        WSGIDaemonProcess greymatter-store python-path=/home/greymatter/greymatter-store/app/greymatter python-home=/home/greymatter/greymatter-store/venv       
        WSGIProcessGroup greymatter-store

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.shopgme.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.shopgme.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

What am I missing here? TIA