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Is there a way to configure DNS records to ultimately resolve a domain (`example.com`) to a subdomain (`www.example.com`)?
Currently, I have an AWS S3 Bucket named www.example.com setup to host static files and a CNAME record with host www and target www.example.com.s3-website-some-region.amazonaws.com.
I would like to ...
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how to map custom domain to azure cdn endpoint
I am trying to map my custom domain to my Azure CDN endpoint as instructed here. The end goal being to host a static site with custom domain in blob storage. The original instructions are here but ...
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dig not returning answer for domain registered with namecheap?
Running dig chimu.sh
Results in the following:
; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> chimu.sh
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: ...
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How does DNS host like NameCheap secure and prevent anyone from creating an A record with your IP / domain name? [closed]
The only way I can think of is it surely checks the WHOIS record from the registrar to confirm the IP matches the domain name, but I can't find anything written about it.
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SSL Errors on iOS
My website https://bitmagi.com is failing to load for iOS users at a pretty high rate. Most people are getting the "..could not establish a secure connection..." error. I bought a cheapo ...
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Redirect DNS to new site on existing IP address
I have an existing website for which I want to change the domain name. I will continue to use the same server and IP address, I only wish to change the domain. I am using nginx and Namecheap.
So far ...
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Trying to transfer domain out of Area 53 in AWS: Namecheap stuck at 'Awaiting release from previous registrar'
The domains are .com and .org respectively and I have unlocked them both in AWS.
I have already used Area 53 to begin the transfer, but like the title says: Namecheap is still waiting, after about 24 ...
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Https version of web application is not working but http is?
I am using Heroku to host which provides me a nice https: address:
https://some_random_string.herokuapp.com/
I use Namecheap to setup my DNS and I do this using:
CNAME Record | www | www.my_domain....
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HTTP redirect (301, 302) with HSTS/.dev domain
I own a .dev domain, which is included on the HSTS preload list.
The domain is registered with Namecheap.
Now, when trying to set up redirects (301,302) from my www. to non-www, this is apparently ...
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AWS SSL wildcard not working for subdomain
I've created SSL certificate on AWS using Certificate Manager (ACM). I included the domain and wildcard in the list of domains for this certificate:
mydomain.com
*.mydomain.com
Then I uploaded some ...
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Lets Encrypt ACME2 Challenge NameCheap Personal DNS
I'm trying to get a wildcard certificate, but running into the issue that I use Namecheap as a registrar, and for API access I need to spend more money than I'm willing to, so I'm looking for ...
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A CNAME record can't be set up for the domain root [duplicate]
I recently bought a new domain from namecheap and decided to delegate it to Yandex.Connect services, so I changed namecheap's DNS to custom, added Yandex' nameservers (dns1.yandex.net and dns2.yandex....
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How to redirect a Heroku subdomain to an external VPS?
I have the following setup:
Wordpress blog hosted on a VPS (ip: 123.44.55.66)
Heroku app live at (my-app.heroku.com)
Domain name bought from Namecheap (www.my-app.com)
Heroku domain is already setup ...
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Trying to set-up Authoritative-Only DNS Servers. My domains are not directed to the server
Guys I am hoping I can find help here.
I am having trouble setting up Authoritative-Only DNS Servers.
One server is a Cloud Virtual Server XL (master server and web server - has Plesk) the other one ...
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Servfail from a dns server in Romania
The website that I launched along my new app has been reported down from romania, but it works fine from my end. I tried to access it from a public dns server from there (5.254.96.195), but nslookup ...
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Redirect www.site.com to https ://www.site.com without breaking email
I want this:
www.example.com -> https://www.example.com
example.com -> https://www.example.com
Here are my URL Redirects Record
Record 1
Host: www
Value: https://www.example.com/
Record 2
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Namecheap domain not masking URL when redirecting to Heroku
I have a domain with Namecheap that I am attempting to redirect to a Heroku app.
It currently DOES redirect, but does not mask the URL. (So visiting www.customdomain.com redirects to app-name....
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SSL, Django, Gunicorn, NGINX - Site can't be reached using https:// + domain.com
I have recently launched a site that uses SSL, specifically Comodo PositiveSSL.
They only issue I am having is that I cannot reach the site using
https://example.com
I have set up redirects in ...
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www.example.com Works but example.com does not work when I type in browser
I am not sure if this is an iis setting or if this is a domain hosting setting. but when I do something like example.org it will go to my site but if I just type in chrome example.org(http://example....
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Exim client not issuing STARTTLS when connecting to smarthost
I have a Debian8 server running exim4 that sends outgoing mail by smarthost through NameCheap's mail.privateemail.com smtp server - or at least it use to. After a recent update, the server no longer ...
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ssmtp settings for namecheap: Invalid response SMTP Server (STARTTLS)
I am trying to configure ssmtp to use the namecheap smtp server to send emails. My current configuration:
root=my@email.com
mailhub=mail.privateemail.com:465
rewriteDomain=email.com
hostname=email....
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CNAME to S3 returns the S3 URL
I've setup a static website on S3 under a www.mydomain.com bucket. I also created a CNAME record for it in Namecheap looking like this:
Type: CNAME Record
Host: www
Value: www.mydomain.com.s3-website-...
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SPF softfail domain does not designate IP as permitted sender
I use both mailgun and a namecheap mail server (where I also have my domain) and when I receive mails in my gmail account, mailgun is recognized as a permitted sender, but that's not the case of ...
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Connection refused error while accessing my server with AWS elastic IP [duplicate]
I have followed all these below mentioned steps
Create an Elastic IP and point to the Amazon EC2 instance.
Goto service Route 53, create a ‘A’ record and point to the Elastic IP.
In Route 53, copy ...
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Will CSR become invalid
I have a domain registered with namecheap and server instance is aws ec2 (windows machine running node js) , cname record pointing to ec2 instance's public ip.
Now i want to configure ssl on it , I ...
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Namecheap DNS Cname issue
I am using Namecheap default DNS, where I bought the dns name. However, I am having a issue...
Typically, for AWS and Rackspace I would have:
A Record: foo.com 124.22.22.1
Cname: www.example.com ...
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Setting DNS records and virtualhost
My website currently lives on beta.tpe-edu.com
I want to make it accessible directly on tpe-edu.com (to point to the same location), but can't make it work (ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED).
Domain is ...
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DNAME Functionality Using CNAME
I have a simple name server with namecheap, however the company I host Teamspeak with redirects to have an IP with Teamspeak's default port. So the IP they give me actually looks like this instead, ...
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How does my registrar (Namecheap) let me set up a CNAME record on the apex domain?
Namecheap seems to let me create a CNAME record on the apex domain, which I thought was contrary to the definition of a CNAME record:
It works (correctly loading up my static site from S3).
Weirdly (...
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ddclient fails to update ip on namescheap.com [closed]
I'm using ddclient 3.8.1 on ubuntu 14.04 to update my dns records on namecheap.com. But now it stopped working. Syslog says:
WARNING: file /tmp/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip'...
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Namecheap + ddclient - 400 Bad Request Error
I just registered a domain on namecheap, and want to self-host through ddns. I have my host setting setup as:
@ 127.0.0.1 A (address)
www http://domain.com HTTP Redirect
So ...
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How do I configure namecheap for "arbitrarily-nested" wildcard subdomains?
I'm trying to set up something like nyud.net, where any arbitrary chain of subdomains resolves to the same CNAME record (which in my case points to an amazon elastic load balancer). Ex: www.gogle.com....
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"A" record redirect gives 400 Bad Request in nginx [closed]
I've registered a domain with NameCheap and have set up an A redirect to my web server. Visiting the server directly (http://1.2.3.4) is fine, but going through the domain name returns 400 Bad Request ...
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Understanding the Basics of Subdomains with VirtualHosts [closed]
I would like to make two subdomains for my site. To do so, I have created three VirtualHosts in my default file under sites-available (I am using Apache on Ubuntu):
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
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Trouble directing A name and subdomain to different hosts
I am hosting a domain on namecheap with namecheap's DNS service.
I want to point digest.politihacks.com to politihacks.wordpress.com with a CNAME record. This works fine.
However, I also want to ...
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Using namecheap dns with cloudflare
Since CloudFlare doesn't provide E-mail forwarding I need to leave my DNS management on Namecheap.
What DNS records (A,CNAME,...) would I need to point to CloudFlare (and to where) to be able to ...
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How to use route 53 to create subdomains that reference specific URLs of an EC2 instance
I have an EC2 instance running Redmine and myPHPadmin at https://myElasticIP/redmine and https://myElasticIP/phpmyadmin.
I have a domain name registered with namecheap: myDomain.us
Using Route 53, ...
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Update namecheap domain records to smartermail server
I have installed a smartermail server on my Windows Azure web instance. I was able to send a test email (and receive it in my yahoo inbox), so I assume that everything on the Azure end is already ...
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ddclient to update namecheap subdomain?
I have a subdomain that I want to update with ddclient. I configured the ddclient to get the IP from dyndns but it's not updating the subdomain on namecheap. They said to use yourdomain.com as the ...
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Linode and namecheap configuration
I have namecheap account which I use for managing my DNS settings, I just leased linode.com VPS and have a small configuration set inside it , I am not able to find out any guides to point domains to ...
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