{"id":421,"date":"2017-02-19T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=421"},"modified":"2020-04-15T03:09:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:09:34","slug":"how-to-add-a-records","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-add-a-records\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add an A Record in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users can add the A record for their domains from within the cPanel, however, please note that this effect will only work if Chemicloud&#8217;s nameservers or private nameservers registered with ChemiCloud IPs are being used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong>\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background: none; color: #2a94e5; line-height: 1; display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/login-cpanel-whm-account\/\">Log into cPanel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> Look for the &#8220;<strong>Domains<\/strong>&#8221; section and click on\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Zone Editor&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zone_editor_cpanel-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-639\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/zone_editor_cpanel-1-1024x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong>\u00a0Here you`ll see all the domains associated with your cPanel account, just click on the \u00a0&#8220;<strong>A Record<\/strong>&#8221; link next to the domain name for which you would like to add an A Record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A_record_zone_editor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-640\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/A_record_zone_editor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong>\u00a0A new window will open, here you&#8217;ll need to enter the name of the record and the IP address.\u00a0In this example, we added an A record for the test.chemiccloud.com to point to the IP 10.0.0.1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/add_A_record.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/add_A_record.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> Click on the &#8220;<strong>Add A Record<\/strong>&#8221; 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