# Setup CNAME with my custom domain for my Discourse site

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-cname-with-my-custom-domain-for-my-discourse-site/38480 "2016-01-25T22:35:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Swedz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Swedz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Swedz)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-cname-with-my-custom-domain-for-my-discourse-site/38480/1 "2016-01-25T22:35:58Z")

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I want my CNAME to be `forums` and my site IP is `162.243.12.227`. How would I do this? Is there a special domain I need to point to? Because pointing to the IP isn’t working for me.

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