Monday, August 24, 2020

How to get yourdomain.com without www to work with MyDiscountDomains and Weebly

 If you set up www.yourdomain.com in Weebly and have MyDiscountDomains.com as your registrar it may not be obvious how to make yourdomain.com work when you put it in a browser. 

So you may already have bought your domain yourdomain.com at MyDiscountDomains.com. 

So when you set up your Weebly site initially it will be given a Weebly subdomain as its link and you can read all about Weebly and domains. In particular, you can get advice on how to manage DNS records. However, it's a little bit different in MyDiscountDomains as it uses a blank (nothing typed) instead of @ for the root.

So login to MyDiscountDomains.com. You will see a list of your domains and next to each domain under Edit click DNS.

Click on DNS then look at A records.

Weebly will give you the IP address, most likely 199.34.228.xx where xx is some number - type in that number not xx.

Note under Subdomain, you leave it blank for yourdomain.com, www means go to Weebly and * means anything else - you might change this later for example, you might want maps.yourdomain.com to go to a map on another server with a different IP address.