I am running a website in Google Compute Engine and configured a DNS zone and an A record to point to the IP address where my web-server runs. In my domain registrar (GoDaddy), I changed name-servers to point to Google name servers.
I can browse to the website without issues, but it show the IP address of the server instead of domain name. How can I change that to show domain name such as www.example.com instead?
I have a website hosted in GCE running under a Linux machine Apache Server. I created an A record in my DNS pointing to the external IP address of the server. When I access the link the subdomain name is not replaced by the IP. I do not believe your issue is particularly related to Compute Engine.
Particularly if you are using WordPress you will need to change some configuration files as stated in
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-displaying-ip-instead-of-domain-name
The below solution worked for me,
GCP set IP Address as site URL when you deploy WordPress on google cloud.
Please change it to your domain name,
WordPress Admin Panel >> Settings >> Site URL (& WordPress URL as
well) >> add your domain name into textbox
Attached is the image for your reference.
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I have a google domain named let's say myweb.app
I created a wordpress website and hosted it on bluehost and added the name server on my custom name server entries in google domain. it was working well. my myweb.app was running, now I created a web application reactnative-flask-mongodb, ran the application on AWS (EC2 Instance). running accurately on port 80.
I created a public hosted zone in route53 for the domain myweb.app and went on to create a record with
a subdomain console.myweb.app
record type: A - routes traffic to IPV4 address
value was my EC2 Public IPV4
used Simple Routing
After setting it up I copied my name servers of the public hosted zone to google domains custom name servers.
But after that, myweb.app and console.myweb.app are not working.
How do I fix it my first priority is running my myweb.app bluehost-wordpress site again.
I have delete the AWS records and NS from google domains no effect so far.
I have a VPS with Google Cloud Compute Engine which I can reach through an external IP. Next to my external IP I can reach my VPS through: 122.xx.xx.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
Is Google also offering an option to reach your website through NAME.bc.googleusercontent.com or something different than an IP.
I don't want use cheap domain name or free domain name as .tk
You can use any domain name to reach your VM instance that you run on Google Compute Engine. To do it follow steps below:
register domain name at any domain name registrar
set up DNS servers for your domain name (usually DNS hosting service provided by domain name registrar)
reserve external static IP for your VM (optional, but could be helpful)
create A record that point to external IP of your VM
wait 24-72 hours for propagating domain names
reach you service via domain name like https://domain.name
In addition, you can register your domain name at Google Domains and use Google Cloud DNS as DNS service for your domain.
You're not able to use NAME.bc.googleusercontent.com because 122.xx.xx.34.bc.googleusercontent.com is a PTR record.
I'm starting to study DNS system and the way it works. I'm using dig on ubuntu to solve some domain names and I'm trying with different Google services.
Even if services are totally different, it happened that I received the same IP address.
$ dig docs.google.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
docs.google.com. 264 IN A 216.58.198.14
and
$ dig drive.google.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
docs.google.com. 264 IN A 216.58.198.14
In other occasions, I received the same address trying to solve yet more services like mail.google.com or maps.google.com.
Can anybody help me and explain me the way it works? Does this have anything to do with time?
Thank you a lot.
First of all docs.google.com and drive.google.com are different domains.
And yes different domains can have the same ip address. This is called a Shared Web Hosting.
In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address. This is possible because when a web browser requests a resource from a web server using HTTP/1.1 it includes the requested hostname as part of the request. The server uses this information to determine which web site to show the user. When you register/purchase your domain name on a particular "registrars name server", your DNS settings are kept on their server, and in most cases point your domain to the Name Server of your hosting provider. This Name Server is where the IP number (currently associated with your domain name) resides.
I created successfully a apache server but I dont want to connect to it by typing 192.168.0.102, I want a normal url like www.google.com. How can I do that? I went to httpd.conf and found the ServerName line but setting it to something like www.mysite.com doesnt seem to work. I also tried to use my external ip(https://www.whatismyip.com) as server name but it doesnt connect. It only works if I try to connect to 192.168.0.102 or localhost. How do i solve this? Thanks
There are three basic things you need to know.
Virtual name hosting
HTTP allows multiple websites to be hosted on the same IP address and port. The client uses the Host request header to tell the server which site it wants to get data for.
ServerName is used as part of this.
… but the client needs to know how to send a request to the server first.
DNS
When a client makes a request to a server, it uses the IP address of the server in order to allow it to be passed over the network (or networks) to it. It is the address.
IP addresses are sequence so of numbers, which aren't very friendly for humans to work with.
DNS translates friendly names (like www.example.com) into IP addresses.
The client has to look up the name to find the IP address. It normally does this through the main DNS system, and in order to get your name linked to your IP address you will need to find a domain name registrar and pay them.
It is also possible to set up DNS at a local level on a private network, and on a computer-by-computer level using a hosts file.
Routing
The IP address of the server has to be routable from the computer the client is running on.
192.168.0.102 is a private address, accessibly only on the same LAN. To make it accessible to clients on the Internet you need to either:
Set up your router to use port forwarding and then use the Internet facing IP address of the router (which https://www.whatismyip.com tells you) or
Give your computer a public IP address and configure your router to route traffic to it (this generally isn't possible on consumer grade routers).
In short, you can't. 192.168.0.102 is not accessible from the Internet it is internal IP.
But you have some alternatives, like if you like to access your computer from a hostname you can use dynamic DNS servers.
Or you want to test your code on a spectacular domain, you can add 192.168.0.102 with a domain to your hosts file, then only you can use this domain with your local computer.
But, If you really want to serve some content to the Internet from your local computer you have to find a DNS server service (like cloudflare) to point your domain to your public Internet ip not to 192.168.0.102.
You configure the virtual host and set the server name to the domain name you want. After that, Apache will check the requests and will use that virtual host if a request was made for that domain name. In order for that to work, that domain should point to your IP address where the server is running.
If you want to test if the configuration works, edit your /etc/hosts file and add that domain name to 127.0.0.1. After that you will be able to access to that virtual host if you try to access to that domain name from your browser.
More info here : https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html
First of all I want to say that I'm new to the workings of DNS and server behavior.
Now I recently purchased a domain name, which redirect to my VPS IP adress.
on my linux VPS I have 2 folders with html files:
/var/www/html/home (containing):
home.html
/var/www/html/admin (containing):
admin.html
Since on the dns you can only type in an IP adress i don't know how to redirect the following:
admin.domain.nl -> html/admin/admin.html
domain.nl -> html/home/home.html
I want to have this working before launching a Java EE application.
You don't do that type of routing using DNS.
DNS maps a hostname to an IP addresses, so your DNS configuration would look like this (using made-up IP addresses):
domain.nl A 123.45.67.89
admin.domain.nl CNAME domain.nl.
Then you configure your web server (Apache?) to serve different content based on the hostname included in the HTTP request. This is called "virtual hosts" in apache.
How to set this up is off-topic for StackOverflow