I am trying to host my first website + service.
#My server setup
I have a static webpage in server 1. A gotosocial installation in server 2. They are connected to a reverse proxy (server 3). This has a public IP of (not exact) 204.230.30.104.
#My router setup
I can open ports 80 and 443. I just don’t know to which IP (I’ll explain why down).
#My registrar
In have a domain, say ‘newexample.com’. The @ has an A record for the IP (not exact) 208.145.80.33
#My confusion
- If I want to make a subdomin for GoToSocial like ‘gts.social.new example.com’, do I use CNAME or A record?
- If I want to serve the static website to be served at ‘www.newexample.com’ , do I remake an A record for www.newexample.com ?
- There appears to be a CNAME in my DNS record already by the registrar for www that goes to some “redirect” link. What’s up with that?
- How do I make the domain connect to my server and how to make the server connect to my domain properly?
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An A record maps to an IP address. A CNAME record maps to another URL. Since you are trying to map to an IP address rather than a URL, you will want an A record.
If all of your sites will be served from the same proxy server at 204.230.30.104, you can create a single, wildcard A record for *.newexample.com. This will point every subdomain to your proxy’s IP address. You don’t need to create an A record for each subdomain.
If you are planning on serving some subdomains from 204.230.30.104 and other subdomains from another proxy at 69.4.20.187, you would need multiple A records for pointing the subdomains toward their respective proxies.
If you wanted to serve from proxy running on a dynamic IP address, and you’re using a DDNS provider to point newexample.ddns.net back to your current IP address, you could use a CNAME record to point newexample.com to newexample.ddns.net.
