I started a thread 3 days ago, called “How to associate a domain-name with hosting”, but it’s been closed/locked because I took too long to reply.
2 members tried to help me, but I’ve been unable to follow the tutorials that were suggested.
I’ll try to make this as short as possible.
A year ago, I bought the domain name (decorator.website) from Hostinger.
My Hostinger account says that the nameservers are listed as “owen.ns.cloudflare.com “ and
“veda.ns.cloudflare.com
My Cloudflare dashboard has a DNS tab (as mentioned in the tutorial (How to Use Cloudflare for SSL)), but the tutorials says:
“The cname records that you need to add are below.
“@” points to “yoursite.000webhostapp.com”
“www” points to “yoursite.000webhostapp.com”"
… but there is no “@” listed on that page
… the only mention of “www” is this line:
“CNAME www decorator.website Auto Proxied Edit>”
, and no mention of the website that my domain name currently points to, that I could change.
So, I Clicked [Add record] and filled in the line like this:
Type [A]
Name [@]
IPv4 address [nowt.000webhostapp.com]
TTL [Auto]
Proxy status DNS only
… but when I clicked [Save] the [nowt.000webhostapp.com] highlighted – as though it was unacceptable.
I started a thread 3 days ago, called “How to associate a domain-name with hosting”, but it’s been closed/locked because I took too long to reply.
2 members tried to help me, but I’ve been unable to follow the tutorials that were suggested.
I’ll try to make this as short as possible.
A year ago, I bought the domain name (decorator. website) from Hostinger.
My Hostinger account says that the nameservers are listed as “owen.ns.cloudflare.com “ and
“veda.ns.cloudflare.com
My Cloudflare dashboard has a DNS tab (as mentioned in the tutorial (How to Use Cloudflare for SSL)), but the tutorials says:
“The cname records that you need to add are below.
“@” points to “yoursite.000webhostapp.com”
“www” points to “yoursite.000webhostapp.com”
“
… but there is no “@” listed on that page
… the only mention of “www” is this line:
“CNAME www decorator. website Auto Proxied Edit>”
, and no mention of the website that my domain name currently points to, that I could change.
So, I Clicked [Add record] and filled in the line like this:
Type [A]
Name [@]
IPv4 address [nowt.000webhostapp.com]
TTL [Auto]
Proxy status DNS only
… but when I clicked [Save] the [nowt.000webhostapp.com] highlighted – as though it was unacceptable.
I deleted all 17 lines, then tried to follow the tutorial.
I got as far as the part of the tutorial that says:
“CloudFlare will now inform you to login to your domain registrar and switch your nameservers to CloudFlare to enable DNS to be managed by them.”
Still on the DNS page ~ Underneath the 2 CNAMEs that I just added, it says:
“Cloudflare nameservers
To use Cloudflare, ensure your authoritative DNS servers, or nameservers have been changed. These are your assigned Cloudflare nameservers.
Type Value
NS owen .ns.cloudflare.com
NS veda .ns.cloudflare.com”
I went to the registrar’s (Hostinger’s) website, logged in, and under [DNS Nameservers] is listed the same 2 names (owen .ns.cloudflare.com and veda .ns.cloudflare.com)
Presumably, that’s because it’s already pointing to CloudFlare, and CloudFlare will make the changes (within 24 hours) to point the domain to my 000webhost.com page.
On the DNS page there are 17 lines.
Do I click on each line, in turn, and remove all letters, numbers & characters from each box, and then click [Save] on each one?
So I can see your nameservers are pointed correctly.
Ensure the two CNAME records pointing to 000webhost are on CloudFlare and with grey clouds, then add to our 000webhost panel, once added then you may turn orange to reap the benefits of CloudFlare.
Thanks for trying, Infinity, but I’m getting nowhere.
The tutorials just don’t work and instructions seemed to be aimed at people that already know what they’re doing.
The tutorial that you mentioned says that I should “Add a new site …” but when I try to do that, I get the message: “decorator. website already exists”.
It’s probably going to be easier for me to try another web-hosting service.
Perhaps I can find one with simple instructions aimed at dummies like me.