Wordpress has a FAQ with useful and important information on how to link your domain name and your wordpress blog. We recommend that you look at it to help you better see how you may want to proceed.
Free Wordpress account users have a blog address like http://yoursitename.wordpress.com.
You may want, however, your blog to be visible by your domain name which may be, for example: http://www.yoursitename.com.
To do this you can use Gandi's web forwarding service (free). Simply create a forwarding address that forwards from the subdomain www to the full address of your Wordpress blog, using our web forwarding interface.
Note:
Remember, if you want http://www.yoursitename.com and http://yoursitename.com to forward visitors to your wordpress blog, then you would need to create two forwarding addresses. One for www and one for nothing (leave the subdomain field empty).Click here to see how to set up web forwarding on our website
If you are a wordpress.com user with a Premium account, then you have the possibility of linking your Wordpress blog directly to your domain name at Gandi via DNS.
The basic way to link your domain to your wordpress blog is by changing your DNS to be:
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM NS2.WORDPRESS.COM NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
Note, though, that if you have any other services (Gandi Mail, sitemaker) then they will go offline, because the wordpress nameservers will take over the resolution of your domain name totally.
If you already have many services running on your DNS (mail, ftp, web hosting, etc.) and you just want to add your Wordpress blog, you can simply add a CNAME entry to point your address to your hosting space on the Wordpress servers.
blog 28800 IN CNAME yourblogname.wordpress.com.
You would, of course, replace "blog" in the above example with the name of your subdomain (this could even be www) that was chosen when you set up your Wordpress blog), and "yourblogname" with the name of your blog. Do not forget the dot at the end of the line or it will not work.
More on this in the Wordpress FAQ here.
If you wish to use GandiMail with WordPress DNS servers, follow the directions from WordPress for editing your DNS entries here.
Then, simply use the following entries in your custom DNS records:
MX 10 spool.mail.gandi.net. MX 50 fb.mail.gandi.net CNAME imap access.mail.gandi.net. CNAME smtp relay.mail.gandi.net. CNAME webmail agent.mail.gandi.net. CNAME pop access.mail.gandi.net.
Last modified: 14 Jun 2011 at 21:04 by Michael M. (Gandi)