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How can I set my external DNS for a subdomain pointing to my Prosper202 installed on the Droplet?

Posted on October 1, 2016

I set up the Lamp Stack, installed Prosper202 and added CNAME records on my DNS provider. My Dns managed by NS1 doesn’t address the setted subdomain. Should I configure something in the Netword area of the DigitalOcean dashboard? How can I set up?



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There should not be any need to set up records in the DO DNS tool but I am confused.

You would need to create an A record, not a CNAME in order to point the subdomain you wish to use to your droplet’s IP address. A CNAME record can point an a subdomain to another existing named service but it cannot be used to point to a bare IP address.

subdomain.example.org.      IN  A     127.0.0.1

A record like this (using your subdomain and your droplet’s IP addres) should do the trick.

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