I’ve just successfully moved the staging website of a client to a custom domain, but I still get an “issues detected” alert in the Publishing part of the dashboard:
My goal was to use the root of the website as the default go-to URL, so tried to follow these instructions.
The problem I stumbled upon was that I got an error message at the control panel of the domain registrar, saying “An @ record cannot be a CNAME.”. I contacted their support and they said to use ALIAS instead of CNAME, and now it’s working. I still want to get rid of the “issues detected” alert and hope to learn something as well, so was hoping someone can help me along. Here are all the DNS settings of the domain (most of them being email setting that were already there, so I greyed them out):
I hope someone can shine a bit more light on the matter. I will contact support of the registrar again, but my guess is they’re no Webflow experts so will first try here, and then return.
Hi,
So sorry, I missed your response completely and haven’t been on the forum much. In the end I got a message from Webflow Support saying this:
The DNS records that you’ve got configured at the moment are perfect. An ALIAS record works just as well as a CNAME on the root domain.
I can also confirm that your site is loading as expected on the root domain. Nice work!
My apologies for the misleading “resolve issues” warning in your custom domain settings. I’ll be sure to let the Engineering team know that the warning is still shown despite your records being configured correctly.
Unfortunately the “Resolve Issues” isn’t gone, but I’m reassured it’s published correctly and the site has been online ever since.
I btw just checked the Docs about your statement to add the 2 A records, but this is what the docs say:
Remove any A records set on your root domain (i.e., A records with the hostname @ or yourdomain.com) if applicable
So not sure if I’m understanding you correctly?
Cheers
