WordPress DNS A Record

marksteele · Member · Feb 14, 2009 at 9:32 am
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Hi there,

I want use nameservers other than the ones provided by WordPress. In order to still have my domain linked to my blog I understand that I need to create an A Record in DNS settings, although I’m not sure what IP address / Host Name I should use, all the information I can find just says to change your nameservers to WordPress.

Thanks,

Mark

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tellyworth · Staff · Feb 14, 2009 at 10:46 am
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You need to use a CNAME record, not A. (An A record specifies a single IP address. WordPress.com blogs don’t have a single IP address; they run on many servers at once, and have many IP addresses).

subdomain.domain.com. IN CNAME [your-blog].wordpress.com.

There’s more information about CNAMEs here, under the question about subdomains:

Domain Mapping

It’s not possible to use a CNAME for your root domain, so you won’t be able to use ‘yourname.com’ as your WordPress.com address if you’re using your own name servers. Instead you’ll need to use a subdomain like ‘blog.yourname.com’.
marksteele · Member · Feb 17, 2009 at 7:48 am
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Great, thanks for that information.

If I change my blogs address to blog.mydomain.com, is is possible to set it up so that traffic to http://mydomain.com will automatically forward in the same way the myblog.wordpress.com does already?
marksteele · Member · Feb 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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