I am trying to transfer a wix domain to a shopify. Apparently Shopify does not accept transered domains which is kinda lame. So I attempted to follow these steps from this site: https://www.wix.com/support/html5/domains/managing-your-domain-records/kb/how-to-add-dns-records-1
and change the DNS for the domain to the shopify IP Address but that didn't work, does anyone have any suggestions on what to do?
Go to your registrar site where you will manage your dns records for your domain. Remove the ones pointing to wix. Add the CNAME pointing to yourstore.myshopify.com and add the A record IP address which Shopify gives you. Let the propagation occur (it can take up to 72 hours) and you're good to go.
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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
A client of ours has the domain client.com
Our application is at superapp.mycompany.com
We want the client to be able to access our application via their own subdomain, like: superapp.client.com.
Normally we'd just tell the client to add a cname for superapp and point it to superapp.mycompany.com. Then on our server (IIS) we'd bind their domain to our app and everything would work as intended.
However, we can't replicate this functionality when our mycompany.com domain is managed via cloudflare.
When we navigate to superapp.client.com we get the following error page:
Error 1001
What happened?
You've requested a page on a website (superapp.client.com) that is on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare is currently unable to resolve your requested domain (superapp.client.com).
Is there any way that Cloudflare can be used in this fashion?, this seems like a pretty standard set up for a multi tenant application that supports custom domains.
We don't need all the protection that Cloudfront offers for these client domains, but we want to use the Cloudfront nameservers for out application (mainly for fast switching of DNS records in the event we migrate servers, etc).
Any help is appreciated.
I hope it's not too late. But just found a way to do so.
You just need to add your client's domain (Add site in Cloudflare) to your account.
You don't need to change client domain's NS. So in your Cloudflare panel this domain will showing as "Pending Nameserver Update".
Next step is add the CName record to this domain.
Although the NS of client domain is not changed to CF, but CF has a lookup record as CName for it.
Hope it helps.
Just in case someone arrived here with same issue as me. Here is the answer. For short, no that won't work.
Since Cloudflare is a reverse proxy for the domain that is on Cloudflare, the CNAME redirect for the domain (not on Cloudflare) wouldn't know where to send the traffic to.
Ref: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017421192-Cloudflare-DNS-FAQ#CloudflareDNSFAQ-CanICNAMEadomainnotonCloudflaretoadomainthatisonCloudflare
If you don't need the CDN benefits, you can still use Cloudflare nameservers to manage your DNS zone and keep your current configuration. Just make sure the CDN is deactivated for the target subdomain in your zone (superapp.mycompany.com in your case).
You can tell if the CDN is activated or deactivated for a subdomain by looking at the cloud icon on the right of each DNS entry: if the cloud is orange the CDN is active, if it is gray, it isn't.
Cloudflare also supports external CNAME resolution in their CDN infrastructure, but it's only available for its Enterprise customers:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/217371987-Managed-CNAME
I have a meteor project deployed on Xervo here. I have a domain bought from GoDaddy, ustechland.com. I'm configuring custom domains in my project's administration panel on Xervo.
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*.ustechland.com means all subdomains of this domain will point to this project. Now when I hit ustechland.com in the address bar, the URL changes to the project URL (https://utl-95476.app.xervo.io), which I don't want to happen.
I have configured CNAME records in my GoDaddy's domain DNS as specified by the Xervo Docs here.
Here is my list of CNAME DNS Records in GoDaddy:
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Although, the Xervo custom domain docs specify to add two CNAME records, I'm able to add one CNAME record with www subdomain pointing to Joyent Servo in US-East. Another record with naked domain (#) must be added pointing to the same. But I'm not able to add this record as GoDaddy says the record already exists.
Now, is the URL changing because I'm not able to add the CNAME record required? Do try hitting ustechland.com or www.ustechland.com and see the URL change.
And at times, both these URL's take me to 'Future home of something quite cool' page.
I have found several sources that claim that godaddy does not support root cname flattening (which is what you want).
Check out these ideas for how to deal with this.
CNAME Flattening With GoDaddy.
Quora Answer
Good luck!
I'm trying to deploy my website and bind dns to this website. So, the dns was used by the old website and now I need to access the dns setting page and modify its A Record and pair its domain name to its new ip address. The domain name is managed by yahoo small business. So I log in and done the changeup like this.
however, When I type the "vbridgetech.com" it does show the apache default page. But when I type "www.vbridgetech.com" it still goes to the old webpage. I thought the only thing I have to do is to change the old ip to new ip. Anyone has idea about it?
If 59.120.185.12 is you new site's IP address, then just add another CNAME record:
CNAME record www.vbridgetech.com vbridgetech.com
(There are other ways to do this, but this should be the safe one)
I am just starting my adventure with Azure and have encountered quite a few problems with setting up DNS settings for two domains, one with CPanel as management portal and the other one with DirectAdmin.
CPanel
The domain with Cpanel is setup correctly so that I can visit it at domain.com rather than domain.azurewebsites.net, but had a lot of troubles with receiving e-mails. Through my research I found out that the best solution is to get Google Apps or Microsoft 365 and host the domain on DNSimple. Is that right? Is there a way to sort it out without paying for services such as Google Apps/365 or programming mail receiver and sender in code?
DirectAdmin
I cannot get DNS set up properly at all. At first, similarly to what I did with Cpanel domain, I pointed "www.domain.com." to "www.domain.azurewebsites.net" and "awverify.domain.com." to "awverify.domain.azurewebsites.net". I also point to the IP given by Azure via A record "www" to "Azure IP". It didn't work so I thought I'll make a subdomain and repeat the steps from before but this time for azure.domain.com. Still no luck.
Any idea what I am doing wrong? Apologies if the question is too broad. If need any more information let me know.
it might be because as per rfc it is invalid
domain.com IN CNAME host.cloudapp.net ==> invalid
this article explain how to do it using either CNAME or A
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-custom-domain-name/
there is a proposed DNAME but i havent tested it to be working yet.