Own Domain on Tumblr

This post will show you how to point the A record of a sub-domain to Tum­blr from cPanel.

Sub­se­quent to my ear­lier post about set­ting up your Own Domain on Tum­blr, let’s have a look how you can con­fig­ure the A record of your domain or sub-domain from cPanel.

Imag­ine you have a web­site, well up and run­ning and you would like to add some cheap blogs for your kids under your domain name? Or, you have a busi­ness site and would like to add a blog? Or imag­ine, you are just smart and get­ting heav­ily involved on the mobile web, run­ning on a low bud­get and not too wor­ried about your per­for­mance on Google or sim­i­lar but you love Face­book and you Twit­ter through your day … and best of all, you don’t want to worry about tech­nol­ogy, code, html, php and such non­sense which you leave for the G®eeks!

The exam­ple I am using is on yorgoopublishing.com, which is hosted on Host­ing South Africa for $49.95 per year; at Host­ing South Africa you get a full-featured cPanel (amaz­ing at that price, huh …).

Log in to your cPanel and scroll to “Domains” and select “Advanced DNS Zone Editor”.

Then just cre­ate your record (you don’t need to set up a sub-domain pre­vi­ously). For the pur­pose of this exer­cise I cre­ate an entry “t” for Tum­blr to get a sub-domain: http://t.yorgoopublishing.com:

1. Into the Name field, type the desired sub-domain name (t.yorgoopublishing.com)

2. TTL: put default Time To Live: 14400

3. Select Type: A

4. Address: put the Tum­blr IP (72.32.231.8)

5. Add Record.

Done.

Test your set-up with the Tum­blr Cus­tom Domain Test Tool:

Click on the Image to Test

The test tool will return as per above: the domain is point­ing to Tum­blr, but no account is set up to use it.

Now log in to Tum­blr, click the name of your blog at the top of the Dash­board, and click Set­tings. Check off “Use a cus­tom domain name”, and enter your cus­tom domain (ie. “mywebsite.com”). Click “Save Changes”.

Click to enlarge

Now your set up is done and you can test again with the Cus­tom Domain Test Tool to get the fol­low­ing result:

Click to enlarge

If you need any help, just post a com­ment here below or use the Con­tact Form on my blog.

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5. YORGOO Daily Call April 29 2009

Tags: Custom Domain A Record, Customize Tumblr, Own Domain on Tumblr, Set A Record from cPanel, Tumblr Custom Domain

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