This article will guide you how to connect a domain to Inita site via the admin interface of your domain provider.
The first steps are listed here Connecting domain to Inita site.
If your domain provider isn't in the list of supported providers, you'll be shown this screen:
No worries, you can configure your domain manually and still connect it to your site.
The domain is configured in two steps: first you should add necessary DNS settings in your admin panel of the domain provider, second - submit the domain in the Inita dashboard.
Step 1 - adding DNS records
That's easy: the necessary settings are displayed right on the way you're going through the domain connection flow described above. Let's review this process:
1. Go to your Inita dashboard, from the home page or Website Editor page, click Connect then Continue
2. In "What domain would you like to connect with Inita?", enter your domain and click Continue
3. Wait while the system analyses your domain. Submit your domain provider name:
4. Click Set up manually. You'll see the DNS records that you need to add to your domain:
You can click on the setting value in order to paste it to the corresponding field on the next step.
5. Go to the admin interface of your domain provider and locate where you can add two A-records. You need the following settings:
First record:
- Record - A
- Host - @
- Value - 34.231.2.134
One more record:
- Record - A
- Host - www
- Value - 34.231.2.134
6. Once it is done, return to your Inita dashboard at where you stopped on the previous step and complete the step 2.
Step 2 - finalising the connection in the Inita dashboard
7. Click to copy the DNS records, then hit I have added 2/2 records above to my domain's provider (which becomes active once you select all the settings).
8. Click Done. That's it!
Step 3 - checking the domain connection.
Proceed to instructions Checking domain status.