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Redirecting your domain name

Updated over 3 months ago

In order to link your personal domain name to your elloha website, you must :

  • Set up, at your registrar (OVH, Ionos, Gandi...) an A* type registration for "yourdomain.com" and "www.votredomaine.com" to the IP of the elloha server hosting your new Magic website.
    The IP is indicated in the Domain Name section of the Configuration tab in the Website menu.

  • Enter your personal domain name, for example: http://www.mon-nom-de-domaine.com, in theelloha application interface.

Here are the detailed steps to follow to redirect your domain name:

SET UP A* RECORDS FOR YOUR DOMAIN NAME

The DNS settings for your domain name must be changed at the registrar you purchased it from (OVH, Gandi, IONOS...) in order to make it "point" to the IP of the server hosting your new elloha website.

You must :

  • Retrieve the IP address proposed by elloha by clicking on the "I want to use my current internet address" link ( Website menu, Configuration tab, Domain name section); you will need to use the IP address indicated on your elloha account, which will not necessarily be the one shown in the screenshots in this knowledge base article

  • Connect to the customer area of your registrar such as OVH, gandi or IONOS

  • Replace the value of type A records in @ and www with the IP proposed by elloha (these record types are symbolised in the green boxes in the example below)

IMPORTANT: records of type AAAA (IPV6) framed in red must be deleted in your registrar's DNS management interface as they will prevent your domain name from pointing to the elloha server.

If you have any problems performing this operation, you can open a ticket with your registrar's support or with the service provider you have entrusted with the management of your domain name with a request of this type:

"Please point mydomain.com with and without www. to the IP XX.XX.XX.XX* via type A records".
*(indicate the IP displayed in elloha)

Below are links to the FAQs for the main French and foreign registrars:

  • Ionos - 1&1

  • Gandi

  • OVH

  • GoDaddy

  • Amen

  • Nordnet

*The redirection of a domain name to an IPv4 address (Registration A) at the bottom of the page

  • Scaleway - Online SAS

*Add an A record

  • One.com

*Redirect a domain to another IP address (A record)

  • HostGator

  • Namebay

  • Namecheap

  • Google Domains

* Resource or type A (for Host Address) records are mappings between a host name and an IPv4 address (a 32-bit IP address: for your new Elloha website). This is the most common type of DNS record.

IN YOUR ELLOHA ACCOUNT

  • Once you have redirected your domain name with your registrar, go to the Website menu in your elloha account

  • Click on Configuration

  • Then click on the link I want to use my current Internet address in the Domain name section

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  • Enter your domain name in the relevant field

  • Then click on Validate

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Your domain name is now activated on your elloha website.

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