How to put a website to web

[mamongato]

Good day,

I created a website but is still hosted on local server, my task is to ensure is accessible on the web. Already there is website hosted on www.example.ac.za, now we want to put training.example.ac.za but that is where I am struggling.

Any assistance will be appreciated.

 

[Batista]

Boy where do I start....

Have you any web deployment experience?

 

[WAslayer]

you have not provided nearly enough details to adequately answer your question.. I will therefore assume that you won the domain or is an administrator for the domain example.ac.za and have access to where the domain's dns is hosted.. i will also assume that you have a webserver setup somewhere with a publicly accessible IP address or a hosting account with a hosting provider..

access the dns zone for example.ac.za where you can add DNS record.. add an A record with the following data, training.example.ac.za and the IP address where the website training.example.ac.za is to be hosted.. that is it, job done..

 

[mamongato]

Really, ok we will do that. We initially did that but removed the A record and rather added CNAME after we saw is still not working. We re-add the A record again.

Thanks.

 

[WAslayer]

bear in mind that there is propagation time involved with DNS.. anything from 4 to 8 or sometimes 24 hours.. and very important, your website ip address needs to be a publicly routable ip address otherwise it wont work..

also depending on how your DNS editor works, you may need to add the full host name, training.example.ac.za or simply just training and nothing else.. some dns editors will append the main domain automatically..

 

[jonno_081]

DNS is only one half of what you're trying to achieve. training.example.ac.za must resolve to the IP address of the server (DNS) but you'll also need an entry in your apache config file for that virtual host (of course I'm assuming you're using apache, but its the same idea regardless of what you're using).