For your website to appear online, two things are necessary:
Your website template needs to be connected to a Zyro plan and domain name
Your domain needs to be connected to Zyro servers
Zyro website template + Zyro plan + Domain = Your website
If you've purchased and registered your domain name at Zyro, it's connected to our servers by default. It means that once you connect your Zyro domain to your Zyro website, no additional steps are required. Simply give it some time and your website will get online within 24 hours!
If your domain is not registered at Zyro, you'd simply need to point your domain name to our servers manually. It's really easy and there are several ways to do it:
Via nameservers (recommended)
Pointing your domain to Zyro via nameservers
1. Log in to the website where you purchased your domain name.
2. Find your domain's nameserver settings.
3. Delete all current nameservers and insert Zyro nameservers: dns1.zyro.com and dns2.zyro.com.
4. Save the changes and give it some time: your website will appear online within 24 hours.
NOTES:
Nameservers always indicate where your domain's DNS zone is managed from
If you're asked to specify IPs for the nameservers, refer here
Make sure that the DNSSEC configuration for your domain is disabled (DNSSEC is not yet supported at Zyro), otherwise, your domain won't work
Pointing your domain to Zyro via CNAME records
If you prefer to manage your domain at your current domain provider, you can add two specific CNAME records to your domain's DNS zone.
1. Log in to the website where you purchased your domain name.
2. Find your domain's DNS management zone.
3. Delete all A and AAAA type records for @ (if there are any). For example:
4. Add two CNAME type records:
CNAME 1 | CNAME 2 |
HOST: @ POINTS TO: connect.zyrosite.com TTL: select any (or leave the default) value | HOST: www POINTS TO: connect.zyrosite.com TTL: select any (or leave the default) value |
For example:
5. Save the changes and give it some time: your website will appear online within 24 hours.
NOTES:
There can be many other DNS records, but there must be only one @ and only one www record (see example above)
If your domain provider (e.g., GoDaddy, Google, etc) doesn't allow creating a CNAME record for the root domain (@), you can point your domain to Zyro by updating nameservers or using Cloudflare
Make sure that the DNSSEC configuration for your domain is disabled (DNSSEC is not yet supported at Zyro), otherwise, your domain won't work