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Custom domain CNAME setup for Zoomforth sites

Step-by-step CNAME configuration to point your custom domain at Zoomforth. List DNS providers that support and do not support CNAME flattening.

Written by Troy Villasanta

If you have purchased your own custom domain and want to use it with your Zoomforth sites, then you need to do a bit of setup with your domain provider's DNS.

You must "point" your domain at the Zoomforth share server domain shareserver.zfops.com.

Do this by setting up a CNAME entry to shareserver.zfops.com.

If you are setting up your domain with a subdomain, like: jobs.acme.com or www.acme.com , then this should be no problem.

Custom domains are one part of an enterprise Zoomforth deployment. For the full picture, visit Zoomforth's enterprise configuration options.

However, if you want to use a "root domain" (also known as a "naked domain") like acme.com , then you cannot directly use an CNAME entry. However, many DNS services provide a CNAME-like functionality which accomplishes the same behavior. It is often referred to as an ALIAS , but may have a different name depending on your provider.

DNS providers known to support CNAME-like functionality:

  • At DNSimple, it's called ALIAS

  • At DNS Made Easy, it's called ANAME

  • At easyDNS, it's called ANAME

  • At CloudFlare, it is called CNAME

(It's possible your DNS provider may support this behavior, but may call it something else entirely different.)

Noteable DNS providers that do NOT support this:

  • Amazon's Route53

If your DNS provider does not support this, then it is fairly simple to switch your domain to another provider. Contact support if you need help with this.

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