Hi there :slight_smile: I am following this guide on Github and you are recommending Namecheap there. I did follow up on this, and you say, I have to check a subdomain. Two problems: Absolutely nowhere on Namecheap is any option to be found, that lets me do that. Absolutely nowhere on your docu…

I was wrong about @, apologies, the column is “Host”. Here’s a few examples: [Screenshot 2025-05-16 165235] Where Value is the desired IP address. so: demo.example.com dev.example.com snow.example.com That’s literally it! (though you will also need to request a certificate using something l…

Personally, that isn’t really helping, since there are no clear, dedicated instructions on how to setup a subdomain. Also, the guide still does not say anything at all about that. Are we sure, that’s helping people as is?

It is in the Standard install instructions on GitHub. “Your DNS controls should be accessible from the place where you purchased your domain name. This is where you will create a DNS A record for the discourse.example.com hostname once you know the IP address of the cloud server where you are insta…

[תמונה] Matthias_Schuster: Personally, that isn’t really helping, since there are no clear, dedicated instructions on how to setup a subdomain. That’s because there is nothing to it. It’s just a DNS A record that points to a server. On some systems “setting up a subdomain” seems like a big d…

For somebody who has never dealt with that, thats not nothing.

That comes already closer to an actual solution. The people would still not know, how to gain their IP address. If this is supposed to be limited to people who are already web developers, than the current docs are probably fitting. If you intend to provide the opportunities that come with Discours…

[תמונה] Matthias_Schuster: The people would still not know, how to gain their IP address. It’s the same IP address as the VPS you log into to install Discourse.

That is all information, that is relevant to be documented for a new user. I am willing to put in this work, in case you are interested to merge it.

[תמונה] Matthias_Schuster: That comes already closer to an actual solution. The people would still not know, how to gain their IP address. Maybe a bit more detail. However your VPs provider has the IP address in the Dashboard with server specs. [תמונה] Matthias_Schuster: My web dev has …

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 15 במאי,‏ 2025,‏ 5:17pm 3

You’ll just create an A record for whatever subdomain you want as described at https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/319/2237/how-can-i-set-up-an-a-address-record-for-my-domain/.

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