Using a Custom Domain Name
While many people are fine with having 'usefedora' in the URL of their school, if you are on a paid plan with Fedora, you have the option of setting up your own custom domains.
All you have to do is go to the 'Domains' section of the "Site" Tab on the main admin dashboard. Here you will see an option in the upper right-hand corner of the page to add a new domain. Upon clicking it a pop-up box will appear prompting you to add the domain name. Enter in whatever you want your custom domain to be, but note that you Should NOT include www at the beginning even if you want it to appear that way.
From here you have to make a DNS record with whoever you've registered that domain name with. Depending on the format of your domain, this step varies. If your domain is of the type yourdomain.com, follow Option 1. If your domain is of the type, subdomain.yourdomain.com, follow Option 2.
Option 1 - If your domain is of the type yourdomain.com, you need to create an A record with hostname @ pointing to 162.242.222.157
- How to Create an A Record on Namecheap
- How to Create an A Record on Bluehost
- How to Create an A record on GoDaddy
Option 2 - If your domain is of the type subdomain.yourdomain.com, you need to create a CNAME record pointing subdomain to dns.usefedora.com
You can use any plain text for subdomain - some popular subdomains used by other Fedora instructors are courses, learn, training, school and academy - but you are free to use whatever you'd like.
For example, if you'd like your site to be on training.yourdomain.com, you'd create a CNAME record pointing training to dns.usefedora.com
- How to Create a CNAME Record on Namecheap
- How to Create a CNAME Record on Bluehost
- How to Create a CNAME Record on GoDaddy
Once you enter save it, it should appear in a table on the Domains page. To make it your main domain, just click the 'Make Primary' toggle for that row.
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