I have setup a raspberry pi web server. I'm using nginx and google domains. I have a conf file for that domain in sites-available I configured the server_name to my domain name www.domain.com .domain.com;
The problem is that I can only access the website using .domain.com. When I try using www.domain.com I get redirect to ISP page (unable to find..).
Login to your domain provider's dashboard
If you haven't already added an A record to your DNS settings select Manage DNS and add an A record pointing to your IP address of the host.
You'll essentially need to add a CNAME record to your domain's DNS settings. The 'Name' field should be www
Depending on your provider you may have to wait till about 2- 48hrs to allow it to propagate.
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I have access to a CPanel associated with a primary domain name www.test.com and it's IP is 55.666.777.888.
However, we must point the domain to another IP address temporarily and do some set-up on this server at the same time. The issue is I cannot access 55.666.777.888 to set up WordPress after having redirected www.test.com to another IP. The domain must always serve another website in the mean while.
When I visit the Domain page, www.test.com is still listed as primary domain.
Is there anyway that we can disable the domain temporarily and access the site using the IP then revert it later?
So I have a follow up question based on How To Setup Subdomains on iis
I am using IIS 8, and I am looking to point my subdomain to my current default website. Currently we have www.mydomain.com, and I setup a subdomain in our DNS A Record that is account.mydomain.com pointing to the same IP address of mydomain.com.
I figured the way to create the subdomain is now to go to Site Bindings under the Default Website in IIS and add a site binding with the hostname account.mydomain.com but I am getting an error that says the server IP address cannot be found. The reason I didn't want to create a new Site in IIS is because we have certain properties and permissions that are setup.
Eventually we will be changing the IP Address of www.mydomain.com to be pointing to something new, but for the time being we need account.mydomain.com to point to the same location as www.mydomain.com
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The registrar for my domain is godaddy, I go to their DNS records section and I changed the A name to the elastic IP associated with my instance. Now when I type my domain in the browser, my website appears! However, it forwards it to the IP of my server.
Things I've tried (whether logical or not):
I'm using wordpress multsite so I changed the DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE in wp-config.php to my new domain. No luck. Reverted.
I changed the 'site_url' and 'home' in my database to point to my domain. No luck. Tried one at a time etc. Reverted.
Changed ServerName to my new domain in httpd.conf (apache).
sudo hostname www.... (don't know what that does)
So I'd like to simply have my website open without it showing the IP in the address bar. Can someone help?
Thanks
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Here's the DNS page of godaddy, I've blanked out the ip in the A records, but it's just the ip of my server.
First you need to set Custom NS in godaddy with AWS dedicated IPs then set them as DNS. If you are using Linux instance with cPanel then just add the domain in cpanel's addon-domain.
If you are using Windows instance then you should configure IIS.
If I do example.com my site is there, but when adding www. or http://www. I get the error message: server DNS address could not be found.
I'm pointing my domain to EC2 on Amazon Web Services.
What am I missing?
You have to add a CNAME record for the www subdomain pointing at your EC2 Ip and also I recommend you to make a permanent redirect on your virtual host config file of your web server (apache for example) to redirect http://myexample.com to http://www.myexample.com. If you do not prefer making a permanent redirect you need to include www.myexample.com in your virtual host file as an alias.
Do you have CNAME DNS records set for www on GoDaddy? Try set www to # under DNS Settings CNAME. Read support article here
I have domain setup like http://www.example.com/in which is a wordpress multisite setup and hosted on a AWS EC2 instance.
I have to make another similar setup with url http://www.example.com/uk but on another EC2 instance.
The domain www.example.com is routed to only one IP of first instance.
Can anyone advise on how I should setup this routing to make this scenario on Amazon Route 53?
Assuming you are serving your site using apache you can add a .htaccess rule on the instance hosting www.example.com to redirect www.example.com/uk traffic to another ip address.
This will mean you rely on www.example.com to redirect traffic for www.example.com/uk. In the event the instance running www.example.com were to become unavailable, www.example.com/uk would become inaccessible.
Alternatively, you can setup a subdomain in Route53 with the following entry
uk.example.com 1.2.3.4
This will mean that www.example.com/uk will need to be accessed using uk.example.com not www.example.com/uk