If you already have a dedicated IP address that is hosting your website, you can point your domain to the IP address by configuring an "A record" for your domain:
- Click Domains
- Click Domains
- For the domain you wish to add an A Record for, click Add
- Click the A Record tab
- In the Enter a subdomain box, enter a subdomain as well as select the domain from the pull-down menu
- In the IP Address box, enter the IP address for the A Record
A records are used to map domain names and web server IP's. For instance, www.yourdomain.com (where yourdomain.com is your registered domain name hosted at Netfirms) OR subdomain.yourdomain.com can be mapped to an IP address. For your www.yourdomain.com to be mapped to an IP address, simply enter www in the field in front of yourdomain.com. NOTE: It will take 24-72 hours for your newly configured A Record to fully propagate throughout the Internet.
IMPORTANT: A dedicated IP is tied specifically to /www/ only and does not
take a domain forwarding location into account. If the domain has a
forwarding location of /yourdomain.com and you try to view the site using
only the IP address you will see the homepage loaded to /www/ (rather than /www/yourdomain.com/ . To access your website by IP address, you would be required to browser to: http://1.2.3.4/yourdomain.com/ (where 1.2.3.4 is your dedicated IP).
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