Here I will show you the easiest way to configure your new domain with your hosting server. In my last post I described how to add a new domain in your hosting server. Adding domain in hosting server is just the first step. In the second step you also need to configure your Domain DNS setting and Name server setting as per your hosing IP to run your Website properly.
DNS setup for new Domain: Log in to your Domain Account. There you will find the "DNS Record" Tab just like the bellow picture.
In DNS Records Window You will find some fields to input hosting details information. There are few Types of DNS Records. Here is the Details .....
DNS setup for new Domain: Log in to your Domain Account. There you will find the "DNS Record" Tab just like the bellow picture.
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| "DNS Record" Tab |
In DNS Records Window You will find some fields to input hosting details information. There are few Types of DNS Records. Here is the Details .....
DNS Record Types
Here I will show you some common type of Domain's DNS records. For the first time it will look very confusing. Don't Worry ! DNS records will look very easy to you when you start to learn about them. Here let me explain in the easiest way some common types of DNS records. |
| DNS Record Types |
- A Records: This record point your domain to the IP address of your website or hosting. For Example, If your domain name "easylearningtips.com" which is hosted in a server and the IP address of that hosting server is 127.0.0.0. Than normally it would take two DNS records to point your domain to the hosting server and it would looks like this:
Type Host Answer TTL Prio
A easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
A *.easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
The first A record in this above example pointing the “bare” version of your domain (like "easylearningtips.com"). It means when your visitor types the domain name without www, it will resolve to the right hosting server and Website.
The second A record is the wildcard version. This redirects any subdomains to your domain to the server; this includes www, and anything else people may type before your domain name.
If you have any specific subdomains that you need to set records for, you would also do that with A records the same way. So, if in the example above, you wanted to make a subdomain called blog.easylearningtips.com, then you would create an A record that looks like this:
Type Host Answer TTL Prio
A blog.easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
In this way your also can point your any subdomains to a different hosting server also.
A easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
A *.easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
The first A record in this above example pointing the “bare” version of your domain (like "easylearningtips.com"). It means when your visitor types the domain name without www, it will resolve to the right hosting server and Website.
The second A record is the wildcard version. This redirects any subdomains to your domain to the server; this includes www, and anything else people may type before your domain name.
If you have any specific subdomains that you need to set records for, you would also do that with A records the same way. So, if in the example above, you wanted to make a subdomain called blog.easylearningtips.com, then you would create an A record that looks like this:
Type Host Answer TTL Prio
A blog.easylearningtips.com 127.0.0.1 300 N/A
In this way your also can point your any subdomains to a different hosting server also.
- CNAME Records: "Canonical Name Record" is the full form of CNAME. A CNAME record points one of your subdomains to a different domain name. A CNAME cannot be set up on your bare domain! You could set up a CNAME record on www.easylearningtips.com but not on simply easylearningtips.com. One thing that CNAME records are commonly used for is to direct a part of your site to a site you have set up elsewhere, such as an eCommerce shop or something similar.
- MX Records: MX stands for Mail Exchange. These records are used to direct emails sent to your domain name to the correct server to then send it to your specific email address.
- TXT Records: TXT just stands for Text. These records do not change anything on your domain, but they can be searched for your domain. These records are commonly used by services such as Google, which will ask you to add a string of characters to a TXT record, so that they can search for the record and verify that you are the domain’s owner/have access to the domain’s DNS records.
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