DNS change

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  lirion73 · Member · Mar 14, 2016 at 10:37 pm

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  Hello, I made a website using Weebly and need to point my domain to their servers. Can you set this up or walk me through the process of making these changes? I need to change my A-Records for both ‘www’ and my root domain. That’s one record for http://www.detroitarchers.com pointing to 199.34.228.55. And one record for detroitarchers.com also pointing to 199.34.228.55.

  Note that I want to keep using you as my domain registrar. I am not requesting a transfer and do not have new name servers to provide you.

  Thanks!

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  rutomo · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 12:33 am

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  Hi lirion,

  To create A record for both ‘www’ and root domain, you can follow steps mentioned in this support page:

  Point a Domain to an External IP Address

  If you have any other questions, let me know.

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  lirion73 · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 10:52 am

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  Hi rutomo,

  I followed those instructions and similar, but to no avail. The first time I was able to change the A records, but after a good amount of time, they did not point to the new pages. When I looked at the settings again, they reverted to the former “handled by wordpress” message. I tried again just now and I am unable to edit them at all.

  My original post was a generic “email” to WordPress only to have it tossed here into the community forum (with no way to delete the post.)

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  lirion73 · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 10:56 am

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  I have also received this error…

  An error occured while trying to process your request. Please try again or Contact Support if you continue to have trouble.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 15, 2016 at 9:48 pm

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  The issue is that the WordPress.com user account that you are posting from is not the owner or admin of the detroitarchers.com domain upgrade.

  So you must have ended up with a second WordPress.com account at some point. You will need to log into the other account in order to make any changes to detroitarchers.com.

  HOWEVER…more importantly:

  detroitarchers.com is not registered through WordPress.com, it is just mapped here. Domain Mapping is the upgrade you would purchase if you wanted to use a domain registered elsewhere (GoDaddy or 1and1 for example) with your WordPress.com site.

  You will need to log into your domain registrar in order to make any DNS changes.

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  lirion73 · Member · Mar 15, 2016 at 10:59 pm

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  Thank you Rootjosh!!!

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 16, 2016 at 4:21 am

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  Happy to help.