Setup custom domain on Netlify
Published on June 19th, 2019
Since I did only find the official Netlify documentation - which does a pretty good job at explaining everything, but I wish it would be a bit shorter.
- Go to Custom Domains
https://app.netlify.com/sites/ your_site_name /settings/domain#custom-domains - Change DNS Settings on your domain's provider to point to netlify.com DNS Servers.
- Select the
...
and selectGo to DNS Settings
- add the Netlify nameservers to your domain service (dns1.p03.nsone.net, dns2.p03.nsone.net, dns3.p03.nsone.net)
- Select the
- Wait a few minutes until the changes are reflected
Netlify handles the SSL certificate setup via Let's Encrypt automatically for you. Although it may take a few hours - I believe it took 1.5 h for this page until the certificate was ready.
This is all it takes to setup your custom domain!
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