Hostgator Custom Domains
Custom domain
A custom domain is something like mywebsite.com. If you are trying to do something like links.mywebsite.com, you are trying to do a subdomain, which is covered in the section below.
- Go to this article and follow the instructions to "Advanced DNS Zone Editor" under A records. https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/how-to-change-dns-zones-mx-cname-and-a-records#arecord
- Scroll down to Custom Records
- Select the domain from the dropdown menu that you wish to use
- Go to the "Add a Record" section
- In the Name field, enter your @
- Leave the TTL field blank
- In the Type, select A
- In the Address field, enter 213.188.192.2
- Click "Add Record" to save the record to your settings
- Go to the "Add a Record" section again (if you can't complete steps 10-15, that's ok, sometimes Hostgator doesn't show you the AAAA type)
- In the Name field, enter your @
- Leave the TTL field blank
- In the Type, select AAAA
- In the Address field, enter 2a09:8280:1:9032:60eb:1797:5542:d0db
- Click "Add Record" to save the record to your settings
Custom subdomain
A custom subdomain is something like links.mywebsite.com. If you are trying to do something like mywebsite.com, you are trying to do a domain, which is covered in the section above.
- Go to this article and follow the instructions to "Advanced DNS Zone Editor" under CNAME records https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/how-to-change-dns-zones-mx-cname-and-a-records#cname
- Select the domain from the dropdown menu that you wish to use
- Go to the "Add a Record" section
- In the Name field, enter your your subdomain. If you want links.mywebsite.com, enter links. If you want bio.mywebsite.com enter bio
- Leave the TTL field blank
- In the Type, select CNAME
- In the CNAME field, enter beacons.fly.dev
- Click "Add Record" to save the record to your settings
