Point subdomain to another host

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  thekristaapartment · Member · Sep 19, 2015 at 4:02 am

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  Dear,

  I’ve mapped this doamin to your website and now wanna to create and point a subdomain of “apply.the-krista.com” to host with the IP of “112.78.2.45”.

  Is it right if I add a CNAME record “apply.the-krista.com alias of apply.the-krista.com” as I’ve tried this but it seem no work to me?

  Of course I’ve created a document root on my host.

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  thekristaapartment · Member · Sep 19, 2015 at 1:49 pm

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  anyone can help me?

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  fdhly · Member · Sep 19, 2015 at 3:05 pm

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  sory, i cant help u.

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  micawbr · Member · Sep 19, 2015 at 4:17 pm

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  @thekristaapartment – Please have a look at the guide for mapping a subdomain: https://en.support.wordpress.com/map-subdomain/#pointing-a-subdomain-of-a-domain-registered-or-mapped-with-wordpress-com-to-an-outside-website

  According to the guide, you can’t point it to an IP address so what you enter should look something like: “apply alias of theothersite.com”.

  If that doesn’t work, add “modlook” to the tags for this thread to let WordPress.com staff know that you need assistance with this issue.

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  thekristaapartment · Member · Sep 20, 2015 at 6:19 pm

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  Thank you micawbr.

  I’ve tried that for a week, but that doesn’t work.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 20, 2015 at 9:16 pm

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  You should be able to set up an A record for that subdomain to point to the IP address you need.

  Point a domain name to an external IP address