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Setting up Domain with Namecheap & Netlify

Ekunola Ezekiel on January 22, 2020

In this article, I would be showing how to connect a Namecheap domain to an application deployed with Netlify. The first step is to have Netlify a...
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Mohammed Asker

Simple and straight to the point! Thank you so much for this post, Ekunola! I followed the steps and now my site is live! Now I have to wait for a few days to issue SSL Certificate and get that green lock for my site.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad the article was helpful. If you provision certificate with Netlify it should be done faster.

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Mohammed Asker

Yeah, it's all done! My site is now green locked and can access them without typing "www". Once again, thank you for this post and hope you write more helpful contents!

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Awopetu Feyisayo

thank you so so much

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Jean Aguilar

Thanks buddy, I remember the first time I did this was really hard because I couldn't find a tutorial like this one, I'm glad on my second I could find this.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad it was helpful to you 😃

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zin

Thank you so much. It was such a great article. Short and sweet.

Is there a way to add a subdomain to netlify or namecheap in a way that points to two different websites?

I got a site.. let's say coolbeans.com

So, I have a gatsby site that's hosted on netlify and I pointed the nameservers from namecheap coolbeans.com to netlify so the main site works.

But I want to create a subdomain called buy.coolbeans.com and point it to a landing page software site like leadpages or clickfunnels.

Is this possible to do? I couldn't find anything on this while I was researching.

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Paul Arah

Yes. go to the DNS settings -> DNS panel. Then create a new subdomain record and point it to the either main domain or the one netflify issues you

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Lorraine

Hi Zin. Did you figure this out? I need to do the same thing

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Tran Minh Tri

Thank god, your beautiful soul. You have enlightened me in the world of deployment :) you have saved me so much time, although I did all right, I'm still not confident enough

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Ekunola Ezekiel

Thanks for your kind words. It takes practice, once you do one or two more, you should get the hang of it.

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Louell Sala • Edited

Hi I have a question. I also used netlify as domain and the host namecheap. I recently brought private email from namecheap and inorder fo receive the emails, based on the instruction, I need to change the nameserver from custom to namecheap basic dns. I'm getting confused

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Pedra

Hey, I am having the same issue. How did you solve it? Thanks!

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Ahsan Iftikhar Qureshi

For me Netlify's Default subdomain loads the Hugo based website correctly, however, for my custom domain it is not loading the website. Can anyone please suggest how to get it fixed.

My domain registrar is Namecheap.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

Were you able to you set up the DNS correctly?

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Lakshan perera

thank you, really helpful

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Mike Haslam

Thanks, Brother Happy New Year! I hope all is well with you and your family.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

Yes, thank you. Happy new year to you and your family as well.

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Stacey Graham 🌺💻

This was super helpful! Thanks! I finally got my portfolio deployed.

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MERCUREGIT

Hey, awesome tutorial§ Thanks a lot. But I have an issue, as soon as I performed the above steps, all went on well. Except that I am unable to access my Cpanel anymore

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Ekunola Ezekiel

That's weird, try to reach out to the Namecheap support team

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Khalil Stemmler

Thanks for throwing this together! Super helpful.

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Abiola Esther

thanks Ezekiel😊for the article.I was able to setup mine easily.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad you found it useful!

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Florin Pop

Very good! It helped!

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Michael Owolabi • Edited

Thanks for the article bro. Helped a lot

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denvermullets

Awesome, thanks for this extremely clear walkthru.

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conjack27

Thank you for this!!! Very useful and easy to follow

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raagaware

This article was a lifesaver! Thanks a ton mate!

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Treana Slocum

Thanks for creating this.

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Devin Warrick

Pictures are worth a thousand words. Easy read, and I got everything working just by checking out your screenshots.

Big thanks!

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Daram Ajay

Thanks sir, Helped a a lot

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Sylvia Pap

super helpful post!!! thank you for this :)

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Priya Vaidya

lifesaver, thank you!!

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Saa Umaru Biango

Very cool article. It was easy to follow. Thanks a lot.

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad it was helpful to you 🙂

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Clara

life saver article! Thanks for putting it together

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Nikos

awesome thx

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Wale Opakunle

Thanks a lot for this Ezekiel! This really helped me out today. I had routed to the wrong nameserver before and quickly found my 32hour-old mistake 2 minutes after reading your post.
Thanks again!

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad the article was able to help you resolve the issues you were having 🙂!

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Akinhwan

you da man

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Chioma Nkem-Eze

Thanks Ezekiel, cool article!

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Ekunola Ezekiel

Thank you Jessica!

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Inusah Said

Simple and precise content. How do you deal with deploying to subdomains?

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James Oyanna

Thank you Ezekiel, this was helpful.

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Pooja Prasad

Thanks. To the point

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Sam Markham

I just used this to get my portfolio site up and running--thank you so much for the helpful article!

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Ekunola Ezekiel

I'm glad you found it helpful

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Ross Brannigan

Great! Thanks.

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Idongesit Archibong

Thanks Ezekiel for this master piece. Please permit me to ask, doe sit work only with Namecheap? Can it work with other platforms?

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Andrew Pagan

Thank you so much!

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Zeeson

Used this for the second time. Great job man!

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Maqsud Tolipov

Thank you, I have just deployed my website 👍

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niiknikk

how can i do this using namecheap basic dns instead of using custom dns

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Ekunola Ezekiel

You would get them on Netlify. You can check and follow the images in the article.

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Giovanni Nava

Was wondering, during the setup netlify DNS, is this the only time where we would get the chance to set up an A record?

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eyalb

What about namecheap email setup? will changing the nameservers to netlify disrupt the email service? thx!

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Moira Leon

SO helpful, thank you!

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Lemenio • Edited

Really nice post, I appreciate your effort for such a straight forward ones. Keep it up!!!

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Angela McByrd

This article was super helpful! Thanks!

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Lars van de Donk

That simple.
Thanks!

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R A John

Razor sharp article. I love how easy this was to follow.