Questions tagged [namecheap]
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Understanding the Basics of Subdomains with VirtualHosts
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):
ServerName nmagerko.me
...
DocumentRoot…

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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, I have customized the DNS of myDomain.us (through…

David Kaczynski
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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 my linode server, can somebody help me out

Vaibhav Mishra
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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 set up a DNS record to ultimately resolve the base…

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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 so it correctly shows up on www.my-app.com
I…

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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 returns a SERVFAIL.
The domain is beacon.sh.
Here…

Vivere Discere
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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 NGINX for http. Here is my config:
upstream myapp {
…

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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-ap-southeast1.amazonaws.com
It redirects…

Conrad
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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 registered via namecheap - DNS records (TLS 1…

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"A" record redirect gives 400 Bad Request in nginx
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 from nginx.
What could I be doing wrong?
Here's…

Steve Bennett
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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 point the top level name politihacks.com to github's…

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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 the steps are very fragmented. I am trying to…

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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: NXDOMAIN, id: 14376
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0,…

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How does DNS host like NameCheap secure and prevent anyone from creating an A record with your IP / domain name?
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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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 I have:
Purchased the new domain through…

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