How to Point a Domain Name to an IP Address (DNS A record example)

Learn how to point a domain name to a VPS or server's IP address with a DNS A record. Although I use Linode in this video, the same concepts apply for GoDaddy, Bluehost, Namecheap, and pretty much any other hosting provider.
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[@AhmedBalfaqih]

Thank you, Tony. I have never subscribed to a channel after watching less than the first 5 minutes of the first video. I appreciate that you took the trouble to show two different domain services.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you very much Ahmed

[@JimKernix]

Straight forward and make sense - that was excellent! Thanks for taking the time to make the video. Just subscribed.

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Really enjoy your calm and peaceful explanation of how this works! Easy to understand. Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome!

[@kwenzathanda4854]

This video has helped me many times in many situations. this info is easy to forget and once you do a new project need a refresher. Spotting this one more time is such a relief...

[@BadassMcGraw]

I've struggled on my own for about two years on and off to get this to work with Google Domains, and never quite got it to work all the way through. using @ to specify root of the domain was the little bit that helped me complete this project, so thank you very much!!!

[@ampedandvolted]

Clear explanation. I stumbled upon this video because I had google domain forwarded (FROM WEBSITE SECTION) to the ip address so it forwarded fine but then the IP address remained in the browser URL instead of the domain name. I thought it was a nginx issue and I needed to translate the output path, spent like 4 hours playing with nginx config only to realise that I needed to setup a DNS record and not domain forwarding. What a nightmare haha, thanks!

[@sylvesterfernandes8277]

Thanks Tony. It was no rocket science indeed. Very lively explanation. Appreciate your work !

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Sylvester

[@TiffanySmith-pw4uh]

Thank you for the simple explanation- very helpful!

[@CodySchichtl]

Love your work! Had to leave a comment after you had the exact solution with no fluff for like the 5th time!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

It's like I'm reading your mind :)

[@user-os1is5rz7t]

Hi, Tony Teaches Tech, This video is simply superb straight forward. You help me a lot, love you. Keep doing your explanation is simple even though without technical knowledge person can also understand very well.

[@adamfils]

Quick Tip: I realized your TTL (Time To Live) was 1H. If you changed it to like 1M (1 Minute) the propagation will be a lot faster. Great Tutorial.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Adam!

[@Deesaigh]

You’re awesome man, I did everything wrong and after watching this I redirected my dns the right way and it worked. Thank you 🙏 😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@AtifShafiinheritance]

Thanks man, i was so confused initially with A records, this made it

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to hear that

[@weeseenman2248]

Thank you, Tony. Very useful video for me 👏

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome

[@nikanzamani1545]

hi there, it was a really good tutorial, I just wanted to note that you don't need to open a private window to avoid cache data, you could just press CTRL + SHIFT + R (or CTRL + f5 as far as I'm aware)

[@Angremaan]

that just refreshes the site

[@connorspangler510]

@@Angremaan Yes but it performs the refresh with a corresponding cache clear.

[@Nexus_Dawn]

Thank you, Tony, you are a life saver!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome

[@anirudhpatel6316]

Appreciate your work Tony 😊

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks!

[@lstanford23]

Great Video man! Truly appreciate the info!!!

[@AchillesPlayzGG]

Hey man, really love your tutorials, i've almost watched them all! Do you think you could make a video on how to host multiple and point multiple domains to the same server please?

[@winningtech5]

Thanks for this video. I've been looking for this

[@ssmiley2122]

Thank You for this. It helped a lot.

[@michalroesler]

Thanks for this video Tony. It helps a lot.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it helped

[@mohammedayyad1255]

Thank you for this guide! Lifesaver.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@atacengiz7101]

Great video. Thank you Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sure thing

[@simpambamark5584]

Thanks man 👋 That was a good explanation!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No problem 👍

[@aimes_js]

Hi Tony, your videos are amazing and educative. What's brand of microphone are you using?

[@parmeshwarr]

thanks man really helpfull 👍

[@HobTecCars]

Big help for a 1st time web developer like me, thanks a lot

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@melm4499]

finally, something I can begin to understand, thanks. When changing host, do I delete the old hosting DNS infos(@, www) or just leave it there? Also, my new hosting wants me to create 4(four) a records.

[@CloudForce10]

Thank you Tony

[@christinegooddy1573]

Thanks so very much, Tony for aiding my understanding. I’m a novice starting a podcast with a godaddy address. The only way is up! 🙏📈

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome Christine. Goodluck with the podcast :)

[@victorliradeveloper]

Thanks man!!!

[@adityaroy7085]

HELPED A LOT THANKYOU SO MUCH 👍👍👍👍

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@UsefulWebsites-fj3yf]

THANKS FOR YOUR EXPLANATION IST WELL PUT KEEP IT UP THIS GOOD STUFF can you do one for how to point a regular dns to unstopable domains please

[@easthalldesignmiami]

Great video - thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Very welcome :)

[@bdshelt]

Hey, this was the best video explanation of this! So simple and so quick. Thank you. Question: my laptop ip address changes. What should I do to keep a steady connection even if it changes?

[@darienmartinez4065]

Lmk if u find out

[@xxgg]

Great tutorial video. Now can you do a additional update video on how to for those of us whos IP address may chance once in a while?

[@lioneldurant2115]

Perfect thanks, one more question, u added dns record on your Nginx and apache but for internal users i guess you had to add the same record on your DNS Server so that every local machine can communicate throught DNS and not IP right ?

[@WAQASPU]

Great Video, please please help to understand the SSL implementation in this scnario. Even in your example it shows that Site is not secure. How to secure the session with SSL

[@pentears3099]

Hi, thanks for your tutorial. I want to ask what to do if someone points their domains to my site without permission? Should I be worried?

[@XCai-xq8nn]

Hi Tony, thank you for the video! May I ask how did you get the IP address at first? I accidentally deleted the IP address on my domain server page, now I don't know what to put there lol

[@pokeripper9707]

thanks, very helpfull!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You’re welcome!

[@meishajames7273]

THANK YOU!

[@xintongxue]

Great video, Tony!!! Just curious, any way to point a domain name to a No-Ip service provider, since a web server located behind a router. Possible? Thanks!

[@techcheck3042]

Great video, man. What do you use to record your screen? Crisp! Awesome channel. Definitely subbed 🤘

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for the sub. I use QuickTime

[@frantanovak6347]

thanks for help works

[@smedigitaltools3647]

Hi Tony, What happens to the nameserver section on the domain? Great Channel by the way.

[@sprintcode1068]

Hi! How do I get the IP thing in the browser instead of localhost or html file?

[@marjorie.gabriel]

thanks a lot !

[@coldstreamreiver9870]

Plain and simple video. But one question: your sites don't have a secure (https) connection. If an SSL certificate was installed there, would it have to be re-issued after the A record DNS changes, or is what you've shown enough? Thx!

[@tito-ace]

Hello do you have a video how to configure apache to get that ip address..tnx

[@jonathan56750-w]

Hi Tony.... If I want the domain name pointing to the synology server... but the synology has a local IP address.... Does the domain name has to point to the local IP address or there are other steps I have to do such as port forwarding etc.

[@michalroesler]

This guy knows what he's talking about.

[@Sound_man73_Electronics]

TY, worked perfectly for PorkBun

[@deciodasilva3960]

Thanks man, trying to connect my home nextcloud ages will try this and will come back with some news...

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Any luck yet?

[@deciodasilva3960]

@@TonyTeachesTech well I managed to do IP address there but then I still cannot connect to my server, the challenge fails to get a certificate

[@SlightlyLifted420]

Hey, your video help me a lot on understanding how to point my DNS to my domain name. But I don’t have a IPV4 for my website and I do not know how to get one. Can you please help me or guide me to how to obtain a IPV4 for for a website. Thanks

[@MaChi313]

Now if i need to access this website url from outside my home network, how to do that?

[@MohammedAly-jv6dm]

thanks😀

[@faceliftpromotions2647]

will that mess with the email address that is my server? I would like to keep the email with Google but point the domain name to another IP.

[@hotel1004]

How can i do If i want to add another domain in the currently runing website. I just point a second domain to running site. Not to be redirection.

[@hxphopepeter]

Great tutorial. please how can i find the ip address?

[@wongxx5219]

hi...may i know why it's still unable to reach the ip site, even though it's already resolve checked by dns checker

[@RameshKumar-rt8xb]

I want to use different domains for different things hosted on same server for eg- webmin, vscode cloud, normal website. How to do that?

[@FameRK]

quick question: my hosting provider gave me 2 Nameservers along with the Server IP. I changed the the A records as you said but I keep getting "Error 404 website cannot be found". Do I need to change those 2 Nameservers with my domain provider or should the Nameservers given by the domain provider stay the same?

[@Mrmuso357]

Very very good tutorial, thanks.. I was wondering do you have a tutorial on how to secure this method with https. Cheers.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@EnglishVocabularyChallenge]

Can you make a video how to update phpmyadmin? I have a WD MycloudEx2 Ultra that has an app for phpmyadmin but it's outdated and there's no instruction how to update. Thanks for this video. It helps.

[@reylyimo4513]

nice explanation

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks and welcome

[@divanvanzyl7545]

Can you point to a specific port on that ip with an A record?

[@F00TB4LITO]

Could you point me in the right direction to create an SSL certificate so that the domain shows https

[@slavichwalker9856]

"flow ryda" lmao its floor-ida Good video though. I couldn't figure this out for the life of me. thanks

[@asthaitsolutions6042]

Nice presentation

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks a lot

[@thubbe9137]

After doing every step before changing config files on the server it worked fine but after doing it it stopped working. Unsure why as dns checker reports it's all there (doesn't even work in private window)

[@raymondmoundzele4907]

merci beaucoup

[@moforlarryson8021]

Greetings Boss i bought a sharred domain and hosting on namecheap 4days ago but cant find it online and my cpanel on domains tells me the its not redirected so i dint know what to do

[@SharronV]

Hi, will you also create a video on how to point email to an external IP address as well? Thanks in advance, and I love your videos!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

What do you mean by "point email to an external IP address"?

[@SharronV]

@@TonyTeachesTech Most of the time, email is delivered to the same IP address as someone’s website, but I know there is a way to route my email to a different website without pointing MX records to an IP address since they (MX records) do not point to IP addresses. However, they do point to A records- which point to an IP address, but I just wanted to know how do I manipulate my email subdomain by turning it into a valid A record? I apologize for not making myself clear in the beginning.

[@anthonysantana4278]

I am having an issue, I am trying to get my home server to work outside my local network. I have punched a hole in my firewall and I am able to point my domain to my local ip. But I am unable to access it outside my local network.

[@sofiamaffioli8331]

I change the DNS record A www IP address and A @ IP Address go to DNS checker I'm getting 2 IP address instead of the forwarding IP address?

[@samsudinimron5480]

After done with this tutorial, how we can setup ssl to domain that already point to IP Address, with free ssl like z*rossl for example, Thankyou

[@razvanmisaras8009]

Hello Tony, i cannot access my NGINX hosted website from outside my house. What can i do?

[@amitsaha5247]

Thank you. Can You explain all important DNS record in series? It will be very helpful.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Coming soon!

[@redhotendorphins7265]

dope profile pic!

[@rkravikumar72]

can you forward the DNS names with different port numbers to a specific IP & port?

[@chind0na]

What you can do is tell the virtual host what its domain is and which port to listen to. domain1.tld on port 8080 Config would show Server name: domain1.tld Listen 8080 Don’t quote me on that. Check your server config docs

[@pameladelgado2348]

Hi. I have a domain name in dreamhost that was pointing to a dreamcompute instance that was deleted, so I created another instance and changed the IP of the DNS A record. But dreamhost is showing this message: All changes that were made to DNS records for this domain will be applied after you change the nameservers. My ns are in other registrar. I dont understand much of nameservers but isn't it that they point to dreamhost nameservers so why should i change them??

[@indupriya8165]

This is helpful. But despite setting up the DNS Zone, the domain is redirecting to ip. What could be the possible reason. I installed wordpress in GCP VM instance

[@DavidGomez-ym8df]

What happends if I have two server and need to point the same domain to both servers?

[@mdjakirhossain7125]

If i add freenom domain to profreehost then in the cpanel is it to set "A" record dns here ? Then after installing wordpress on cpanel afterthat if i add cloudflare and replace profreehost nameserver in freenom by cloudflare nameserver then doing it to set dns on cloudflare "A" record so how can i findout that what is my ipv4 address to set it on cloudflare ?

[@MacSamsonX]

Bro how can you make it https or secured version?

[@GospelipodTV]

Hello Tony, I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on "How to Set up Cloudflare Argo Tunnel" on Raspberry Pi (Portainer) to - Bypass CGNAT and ISP Port blocking, Thanks.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Hi, sorry I'm not familiar with that topic

[@epic-game-play]

Hi, do you know how park domain on different server?

[@inandoutdoorssupply]

My Shopify store and domain was set up by someone else. I do not know the Domain Provider. How can I set up the A record and CName now?

[@mahdiehssani8017]

Hi bro, I have a question, how can I change my domain to pioneer from wix to a WordPress new website. The point is that I don't want to wix anymore but I need to my domain go to the new website I built in WordPress, but not sure how change it, really appreciate it if you could help

[@momojingo4061]

Thanks for the video! One quick question: why do you add the www as a type A record and not as a CNAME one?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

They accomplish the same thing. I think it's just habit, but no worries if you do CNAME instead

[@momojingo4061]

@@TonyTeachesTech Thanks a million!! 🙏🏽😊

[@olympustech346]

Hi, how do i map it to Iis and not ngx

[@The-D-Hoyt]

Interesting stuff. Being the non tech savvy person that I am. I've never used an IP address to point any of my domains to hosting servers. I've always been given a server name to point my domain at.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Doug, happy you learned something!

[@Punchmememe]

I am new to servers and domains, if i am right one domain can open diffent servers right? So i wanted a website, minecraft server, dayz server, and uhm for example rust, aslong it had different ports suggested to it right? Or is this totalt wrong?

[@awaway1]

thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome

[@arkapratimsarkar803]

good info

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@shawnschaworski2132]

I am trying to redirect localhost for Jellyfin at 8096. How do i do this with a port

[@keadeku]

Hello great video I need some help with my port forwarding in Ubuntu I have port forwarded to my domain but it does not respond from outside the network.

[@artbyuniverse02]

Tony, i just bought a domain and want to set it up to sell my art. It doesnt have an IP address it seems? What do I do?

[@WadeAbout]

Can you point in to a DDNS address instead ?