I have a domain that I bought on Google Domains, and have a website hosted on it using Hugo + Netlify. I'd like to use a separately hosted blog website based on Jekyll on a subdomain with the name blog.example.com.
Looking online I was able to find - https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6072198?hl=en, which it seems like will re-direct the subdomain to a different web address, but not exactly allow me to host my site on that subdomain.
Can anyone explain to me how I can go about doing that?
You will need a CNAME record in your Google DNS:
blog.example.com will point to 192.0.2.4 (use the IP given to you)
Then the subdomain blog will be in the hands of your blog hosting provider.
If there is a CNAME record for *.example.com, you will need to replace that by www.example.com to point towards your example.com A record (which points to your default website host's IP)
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I will tell you about my situation, I have a website hosted by hostinger, and a domain in godaddy which points to the hostinger's site through hostinger's dns and a domain created in cpanel, all good.
The question is that I have a domain in wix, to which I want to point to goddady's, or simply that when I enter this domain in wix it redirects me to godaddy's to see my website in hostinger.
I tried to do it through the CNAME and the A record that Wix has, placing the domain name in the CNAME and the IP that appears in the cpanel in the A record, the problem is that it does not redirect me correctly, showing me this screen.
It is worth mentioning that in the CNAME place the godaddy domain with the www and in the A without the www.
I attach an image of the result.
Any advice or a solution?Result
I have a domain name mydomain.com registered at Google Domain. I would like to use it for a static website in Azure.
I would really love to use my naked domain rather than the www version, but I don't think it is possible since when I try to create a CNAME from mydomain.com, I get CNAME records for the root domain are not supported. If anyone has a solution, I am interested.
Custom domain in Azure portal tells me to create a CNAME from www.mydomain.com to diamnis.z16.web.core.windows.net, which I did.
Now, how do I get traffic from the naked domain mydomain.com to go to www.mydomain.com in Google Domains?
You can do that in google domain dns. Follow the below steps -
After you have done the CNAME mapping for www.chartvibes.com, do as mentioned below -
To configure the naked domain, add a "Synthetic Record", and set up a
"Subdomain Forward." In the subdomain text box, enter the # sign and
nothing else.
Select option to 'Forward path'. That should do the root domain forwarding.
You can refer to the below official link too - https://support.google.com/domains/answer/4522141
We create custom web apps for businesses and for the first time a client of ours has asked that instead of using our subdomain and instead of using a custom domain for their web app they would like to use their own subdomain for a domain currently hosted on another server.
For instance our domain is webapp.com and their domain is business.com. They would like app.business.com to be point to our name servers so we can continue hosting the web app for them.
I know it's possible to do this because we currently have outgoing CNAMEs on our server for help desks, etc, that aren't hosted on our own server but are using subdomains of ours.
Could you help me with what our client has to do on their zone editing side and what we need to do on our WHM/cPanel side to allow this?
NOTE: We had the client create a CNAME for app.business.com. pointed to our nameserver ns1.webapp.com and then we created an add-on domain for business.com and subdomain for app.business.com but when you try to visit app.business.com it gets the "Sorry!" cPanel page.
Thank you!
Alright I figured out how to do it on my own after a lot of testing & thought I'd post here to help others out in case they run across this in the future.
For the server with the subdomain on it have them create an 'A' record for that subdomain pointing to your server's IP address like so:
subdomain.business.com. ((note the extra period at the end is required))
TTL: 14400
Record Type: A
Pointing To: Your server's IP address.
Now on your server's cPanel you will need to create an addon domain for THAT subdomain (ie subdomain.business.com) - not for the actual business.com domain but for the entire subdomain subdomain.business.com with the folder being the root folder wherever you would like it to show.
That worked for me!
The CNAME should not point to your nameserver but your subdomain f.e. client1.webapp.com.
An other solution could be to add the subdomain app.business.com to your server and the client add an A record for the subdomain to your ip.
I have been figuring out how to accomplish this for a day now and read through a bunch of tutorials but could not make it work the way I wanted.
So my current set up is that I have a website that I registered the domain with Namecheap, let's call it mywebsite.com. The main app is hosted on Heroku, so both mywebsite.com and www.mywebsite.com is set up as URL redirect and CNAME to point to the heroku address. For example I have a CNAME record for www pointing to www.mywebsite.com.herokudns.com. This works fine and I would like to keep it that way.
I recently registered for a SiteGround service to set up my wordpress blog. I would like it to be accessible at blog.mywebsite.com. Most of the tutorial I have seen is to either migrate the domain to siteground so the wordpress site can point to the main domain or to point the namecheap DNS nameservers to the siteground one which I don't want to do neither because I do not want to redirect the traffic away from the heroku app.
I have tried to set up NSRecord according to Namecheap doc, I added the record for blog to point to ns1.siteground1111.com (the nameservers siteground provided) but when I entered blog.mywebsite.com it said server not found. I am on a SiteGround shared IP plan and I can see the blog if I visit ns1.siteground205.com/~myusername. However creating A record or CNAME requires bare IP and domain so I wonder if that's the issue.
My question is if my approach was correct in trying to set up the subdomain by creating a NSRecord on Namecheap pointing to SiteGround's nameservers. Or is it necessary for me to pay extra and get a dedicated IP address from SiteGround for me to point my A record for blog to.
Alternatively, I also have extra domains I am not using and I could set SiteGround blog to those domains and perhaps create a CNAME record for blog.mywebsite.com to www.myotherwebsite.com? That sounds like an overcomplication of the issue but I am not sure what to try at this point.
Really appreciate any help!
In Namecheap admin for your domain name mywebsite.com:
(1) Create an A record:
[type, host, value, TTL]
A, #, 1.2.3.4, 1min
where 1.2.3.4 is the Siteground IP address of your account.
(2) Create another A record:
A, blog, 1.2.3.4, Automatic
I have a domain on dreamhost, say block.com. This domain points to an address outside of dreamhost (amazon AWS).
I also have a subdomain, us.block.com that is hosted on AWS. This subdomain is not registered on dreamhost (as dreamhost doesn't allow subdomains to be hosted outside of dreamhost). To point to this subdomain, I've added in a couple of custom A records to the DNS records on dreamhost.
Since the subdomain is not registered on dreamhost, it doesn't allow me to add custom MX records. Is there anyway to get around this? If there isn't, can I somehow point the mail server of us.block.com to that of block.com without using mx records?
You can do that with a little trick:
Domains > Manage Domains
Fully host your subdomain
Under "Web Hosting" find "Remove" and press it
Now you can edit custom MX fields for your subdomain
Tested solution from here