I am using godaddy DNS. All my records are set up there. How do I point those A records to DigitalOcean.
If I understand correctly, creating DNS records at DigitalOcean will interfere with all my other records, right?
Thank you, but NOPE.
If I do that, I believe my e-mail and all my other A records will stop working. I do not want DigitalOcean to do my DNS. I already have the DNS set up.
I only want DigitalOcean to host my website.
DigitalOcean:
My droplet's host name is the same as my domain name.
I created a CNAME with "www" pointing to my <domain.name>.
My current DNS (godaddy):
For the domain name in question, I pointed "@" and "www" to my IP address here.
So far it's working. If anything is missing, I'll figure it out as I set up my website.
This is correct, and your current setup should work fine.
Just let your DO droplet handle the requests of the domain you would like to use, with a proper VHOST configuration.
Thank you! RE: "a proper VHOST configuration" can you point me to some documentation so that I can double check this?
This depends on the webserver your using. Apache and Nginx for example have different configurations you should use.
We're using Apache.
I choose the 1 click install and deploy for Wordpress.... Ubuntu 14.04, Apache, MySQL PHP....
In Apache you can copy the default file, and edit the new VHOST to handle your requests. Or you can simply create a new VHOST and just add whats needed. If you don't want to use the default config, go to #2;
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.com.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.com.conf
And you should use a simple, but efficient config like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I am not sure were the default directory of Wordpress is, since I never use the one-click application wizard. Just check where it is, and make sure you use the proper one at DocumentRoot
Now enable your VHOST and everything should work fine:
sudo a2ensite yourdomain.com.conf
EDIT
Just run a droplet with the wordpress app installed to test, the default directory is /var/www/html. So inside your VHOST, use:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Let me add to this:
I will create A records at godaddy that point to my DigitalOcean IP address.
How do I configure the DigitalOcean side of things to accept the requests?
If you have a droplet on DigitalOcean and a domain purchased elsewhere, just edit domain's DNS settings (in your case at godaddy) so that A records point at your droplet's IP address.