most recent 30 from http://meta.stackexchange.com 2010-03-16T08:09:37Z http://meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/1689 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1689/guide-for-dummies-on-configuring-my-own-se-site-at-foo-com ripper234 2009-10-16T15:56:38Z 2009-10-16T18:54:38Z

<p>I saw <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/how-do-i-point-my-custom-domain-at-my-stackexchange-site" rel="nofollow">this question</a>, but it's hardly for dummies. Let's say I'd like to register a domain with GoDaddy (or whatever other alternative) and work from there. Can someone point out how to do this, and connect that domain with the SE engine?</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1689/guide-for-dummies-on-configuring-my-own-se-site-at-foo-com/1691#1691 Ferdeen 2009-10-16T16:12:52Z 2009-10-16T16:12:52Z

<p>I have said this several times in my questions. </p> <p>I still can't solve the problem and the answers to questions out there are way too complicated.</p> <p>Need someone from FogCreek to confirm how to set this up (and if users still can't point their domain to [x].stackexchange.com, then help out fixing the problem).</p>

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1689/guide-for-dummies-on-configuring-my-own-se-site-at-foo-com/1701#1701 Blah 2009-10-16T18:54:38Z 2009-10-16T18:54:38Z

<p>I've had to do it for a few domains, so I kinda got a hang of it. Here is what you do.</p> <ol> <li>Register that domain name</li> <li>Get into the DNS settings for that domain. </li> <li>For GoDaddy go to manage my domains, click on the domain name you have registered, scroll down to total dns control and click on the total dns control link</li> <li>Now you need to change the ARecord</li> <li>For GoDaddy click edit, next to it and enter 64.34.80.165 as the ARecord value/ip. </li> <li>Then you need to setup the www redirect.</li> <li>Scroll down to CNames and check for WWW record, if it exists edit the value, if it doesn't, click add a new cname record</li> <li>Make the WWW cname record be: lbny-se.fogcreek.com</li> </ol> <p>Now you are done with the registrar, and it's time to setup your stackexchange settings.</p> <ol> <li>Log in as an admin, and add www.site.com and site.com as aliases</li> <li>Once the redirect is active(going to site.com shows up your site), change the primary domain to the domain name you want to use as primary.(<a href="http://site.com" rel="nofollow">http://site.com</a> or <a href="http://www.site.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.site.com</a></li> </ol> <p>Don't worry if your domain isn't working right away, it can take a couple of hours for the dns to go out into the world. </p> <p>Also some times your browser maybe using a cached version of the dns, and you may not see the redirect, when it's working. So go to a proxy and enter your site using one of those to check.</p>