How to Set Up Linux Apache Server

Page 7: Register and Configure DNS of Domain

In order that people can find your website, you need to register a domain. After you registered a domain, you need to configure the records (zone files) of your domain so that the domain can point to your server.

Since we are only set up a webserver in this tutorial, you only need to configure the 'A' record of your domain.

For example, if the domain name and IP address are:

Domain Name: YourDomain.com
IP Address of WAN: xxx.xxx.xx.x

The configuration of your domain should be:

YourDomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xx.x
www.YourDomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xx.x

Now, when people type your domain name in the url of browser, the browser will run to your webserver and display the webpages.

NOTE:

We will discuss the IP Address of WAN in the next few chapters. Chapter 17 will show you how to get the WAN IP address.
Please check our tutorial for DNS setting if you don't know what is a 'A' record