Introduction
I have seen that in this section the most commonly asked question is how to set the domain up. In order to not confuse anyone all screenshots are from Windows XP Professional SP2 using Mozilla Firefox, however there is no changes on whatever operating system you use.
This post will cover:
- Where you get a domain
- To set up your domain using
- Free DNS (www.afraid.org)
- Ultima Development Laboratories (Ultima Domains)**
Buying a domain
The very first step is to buy a domain. You can buy a domain for as little as £2/$5 from places like:
Domain Explorer. GoDaddy and Namealerts will allow you to buy in USD. 123-Reg and Ukreg will allow you to buy in £. Ultima Development Laboratories has also sold a few domains to Forumer users allow fbucks as payments.**
Setting up DNS
Very often you get free DNS when you buy your domain, but there is a chance that you never did a DNS service. If this happened to you or you have no clue what to do, then just follow the section that says about
Free DNS.
Ultima Development Laboratories' DNS
First log into your control panel that can be located at
http://domains.ultimalabs.co.uk and you should get a screen that look like this
Image here:
http://tools.ultimalabs.co.uk/images/files/2/step2.JPG
Next click edit on the section that is called "Host Records". Look at above image to see where the edit button is located.
Next fill in the details that is needed that can be located in your Forum's Admin CP.
Image on set up at be found here:
http://tools.ultimalabs.co.uk/images/files/2/step3.JPG
Click save and then go to your Admin CP and fill out the fiorm that can be located under "fdomains".
Free DNS (A free DNS service)
Free DNS is only to be used if you never got any DNS service when you got your domain.
If you ordered from DomainExplorer or GoDaddy, you can skip this.
The first step is to sign up. Link here
http://freedns.afraid.org/signup/. Fill in all the needed details. Once you have signed up, change your domain nameservers to:
- ns1.afraid.org
- ns2.afraid.org
- ns3.afraid.org
- ns4.afraid.org
After you have done that, click subdomains and then look for the host record that is called "yourdomain.com".
Image:
http://tools.ultimalabs.co.uk/images/files/2/step5.JPG
Once you have clicked it, change the "A-Record" to point to the IP address that is located in your Admin CP.
Image:
http://tools.ultimalabs.co.uk/images/files/2/step6.JPG
Now fill out the details in your Admin CP and then make sure to select it.
List Of IPs
Here's the list of IP addresses. If you know your server number (the number in your forum's current URL), you can just find your IP below. If you're not sure, log into your Admin Control Pannel, and click on fDomains. It will be listed there.
- 1.forumer.com 69.64.49.67
- 2.forumer.com 69.64.49.47
- 3.forumer.com 69.64.34.238
- 5.forumer.com 69.64.37.64
- 6.forumer.com 69.64.50.75
- 7.forumer.com 69.64.49.24
- 8.forumer.com 69.64.33.79
- 9.forumer.com 69.64.32.56
- 10.forumer.com 69.64.32.10
- 11.forumer.com 69.64.33.61
- 12.forumer.com 69.64.38.171
- 13.forumer.com 69.64.32.105
- 14.forumer.com 69.64.33.62
- 15.forumer.com 69.64.32.87
- 16.forumer.com 69.64.49.107
- 17.forumer.com 69.64.36.66
- 18.forumer.com 69.64.36.99
** I am directly affiliated with Ultima Development Laboratories.
Ultima Development Laboratories DNS screenshots were taken on the 31/1/07 and the Free DNS was taken on 3/11/06. Thanks to Ultima Development Laboratories for allow the screenshots and also thanks to Free DNS for allow screenshots. Copyright (c) Ultima Development Laboratories 2007 - Please do not rip this and claim it as your own.
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