Pointing Your Domain to Your Webhost

'''Before proceeding, make sure you have purchased your domain name and web hosting account. If you haven't check out the tutorial here'''

In order to get your domain working with your web hosting space, you need to point the domain to the web host, and what follows is a quick tutorial for doing this if you purchased your domain with Hover and are hosting with Cast Iron Coding.

''Note: This process should be similar, even if you are not using Hover for your domain and/or Cast Iron Coding for hosting. If you used a different registrar, these steps should work as a good basic guide. In addition, your registrar should have how-to information/tutorials on their site with information about pointing domains to web hosts.''

1. To point your domain at Hover to Cast Iron Coding you will need to login to your Hover account and then Click on the Name Servers tab.

https://www.hover.com/help/sites/default/files/pictures/Name%20Servers/NameServersEdit1.png

2. Mouseover the domain name that you want to modify and click on the nameservers link.

https://www.hover.com/help/sites/default/files/pictures/nameservers/nameservers1.png

3. Your existing name servers will be displayed in the text boxes. Type your new name servers into the text boxes and click on Save Changes.

If you are using Cast Iron Coding, your name servers are the following:


 * Nameserver 1: ns1.castironcoding.com
 * Nameserver 2: ns2.castironcoding.com

https://www.hover.com/help/sites/default/files/pictures/nameservers/nameservers2.png

That should be it. Sometimes in can take as much as 24 hours for the domain to point to the webhost---so be sure to give it a bit of time. Should it still not be pointing correctly after a day or so, let us know.