Using A records for pointing our blog on wordpress.com

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    ivanstoiev · Member ·

    Hi! We would like to use our actual domain name server (at Amazon), and point just an A record to a blog inside wordpress.com

    cobli.co -> our main site
    blog.cobli.co -> our blog at wordpress.com

    Reading the FAQ (last question of https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#frequently-asked-questions) It seems to be possible. Could you confirm it? How does we need to configure it?

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there.

    What is the URL of the site hosted at WordPress.com?

    The best way to map a domain to a WordPress.com blog is to set your domain’s name servers to the following values:

    NS1.WORDPRESS.COM

    NS2.WORDPRESS.COM

    NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

    However, if your registrar requires that you create A records, please note that our IPs change over time. Because of this, your domain might stop working at some point in the future. If that happens, please get in touch with us to find out the most current IPs and then update your A records, accordingly.

    If you still want to map your domain using A records, please be sure to create two records using these IP addresses:

    192.0.78.25

    192.0.78.24

    Thanks!

  • Unknown's avatar
    ivanstoiev · Member ·

    Hi! Thanks Darnel!

    In fact, our DNS configuration is plugged with our infra-as-code solution. Changing our nameservers is not an option since we do not want to break it.

    We are investigating WordPress.com solution for hosting a blog (our site will remains on another infrastructure).

    For us, the perfect solution would be a simple CNAME of blog.cobli.co hostname to our instance on WordPress.com. Could it be possible?

    Best Regards

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    For us, the perfect solution would be a simple CNAME of blog.cobli.co hostname to our instance on WordPress.com. Could it be possible?

    Certainly, as long as you’re using a subdomain, a CNAME will work just fine, and in fact it’s what we recommend. Here’s how to go about that:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

    We only need you to use A records (or our name servers) if you’re pointing the domain itself here.

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    ivanstoiev · Member ·

    Thanks, it would be perfect, but we have just got an advice from our SEO consulting that the best scenario is to put blog behind cobli.co/blog (without redirection)

    We could archive this using a reverse proxy, but WP must be configured in a way to provide links and anchors relative to this path.

    So our plan is to provision a WP with a different domain, and mask it behind cobli.co/blog. Is it possible to change WP site URL configuration at wordpress.com ?

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    You would need the Business Plan to adjust URL structure, and to be honest it seems like reverse proxies don’t work all that well here. It’s been a while since I’ve had questions about that, though. Before I check in with our admins on that though, I want to be sure I understand what you’re saying here:

    and mask it behind cobli.co/blog

    Can you confirm what you mean by masking here?

    Usually when people say “masking” in reference to domains, they’re talking about displaying the site within an invisible frame. That tends to not work well for SEO or for the users, because it makes deep linking / permalinks break (or at least show the “hidden” domain). So I’m guessing that’s not what you’re after.

    If you’ll clarify what you’re intending to do though, I can check to see if it would work well here.

  • Unknown's avatar
    ivanstoiev · Member ·

    Hi!

    Rewriting our plan:

    1- Create a WP instance with cobliblog.com as our domain in wordpress.com
    2- Deploy a reverse proxy under cobli.co/blog (in our infrastructure) that proxy requests to https://cobliblog.com/
    3- Configure the WP site URL attribute (https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/) in a way that WP responds its anchors and links using http://cobli.co/blog as base URL.

    It would be possible?

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That’s definitely outside the scope of what we know will work.

    You’re welcome to try, of course, but we can’t promise anything.

  • Unknown's avatar
    ivanstoiev · Member ·

    Ok, thanks, we will try it!

    But in order to do it so, we must know if we can change site Address URL, as pointed in https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/ in wordpress.com

    Is it possible?

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Oh! Yes, that can be done.

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