Prerequisites

• Your first site on Stackable

Quick start

Once a site has been created in the control panel, a DNS entry will need to be made for your site before your domain name will resolve properly. There are two main steps to this: 1) making the global DNS record (e.g., domain.com not www.domain.com) and pointing it to your site IP address, and 2) make a CNAME record to point to the global DNS record (e.g., point www.domain.com to domain.com). This way both domain.com and www.domain.com will both resolve your web site correctly.

To do this:

• Click MORE TOOLS in your control panel
• Click DNS MANAGER
• In the DNS Manager, choose MANAGE A DOMAIN
• A prompt will ask you for a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Type in the site domain name (domain.com, not www.domain.com)

Creating the Global A record

• Click CREATE RECORD
• Enter your domain name (i.e., domain.com, not www.domain.com) in the 'Host' field
• Set the 'Type' to 'A'
• Enter the IP address of your site in the 'Content' field, which can be found on the IP manager (see IPs and IP Manager fore more info)
• Click SAVE

Creating the www CNAME record

• Click CREATE RECORD
• Enter 'www' in the 'Host' field
• Set the 'Type' to 'CNAME'
• Enter the @ character in the 'Content' field
• Click SAVE

See Also

IPs and IP Manager