Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Setup a GoDaddy Domain with Your Site

The custom domain name feature allows you to setup your Weebly site with a domain name you've already registered through GoDaddy. The changes we request are simple, but it can be a rather frustrating task if you don't have any experience with editing your domain records.  We recommend that you register your domain through Weebly if you are looking to buy a new domain.

Login to GoDaddy and select the domain you want to use with your site.  
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Launch the DNS Manager. 
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You'll see a whole mess of settings on the next page.  But you only need to change two records.  First change the "@" record at the very top.  Click the pen / paper icon to edit it.  
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Enter our 199.34.228.100 IP Address in the provided box.  Then click OK.  
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Then make sure the "www" CNAME record is pointed to @.  
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It can take GoDaddy up to 24 hours to update their records with your change (though it usually only takes a few).  Nothing is happening on our end when you point a domain here so there is nothing we can do to speed this up.

The only thing you need to do in our system is make sure you've assigned the domain to your site and Published it.  Go here to learn how to do that.