How to connect your domain to your Shopify site

You may have created an e-commerce website through Shopify and would like to connect your Afrihost domain to your Shopify site.

Shopify uses the pointing method to connect the domain to the site. Connection via pointing means that Afrihost will host your domain's DNS records and you manage your DNS records in Afrihosts ClientZone.

The pointing process consists of two steps:

1. Change the DNS records in ClientZone.
2. Connect your domain to Shopify.

The DNS records that need to be updated in ClientZone are A records and CNAME.

• Login to ClientZone.
• Click on the ‘Hosting’ tab.

• Select the domain you want to connect to, from your hosting packages displayed on the right-hand side.

• Select ‘Hosting Settings’.

• Select ‘DNS Editor’.

• In DNS Management, click on ‘Create New Record’.

• Enter the new CNAME record details as follows:
  • Record: eg: shops.myshopify.com.afrihostanswers.co.za
    (use your own domain name).
  • Type: CNAME
  • Priority: 0
  • Content: shops.myshopify.com
  • TTL: 600

• Click ‘Update’.

• Once the new record is added, there will be a pop-up confirmation on the screen.
• Click on the ‘Okay’ button to go back to the DNS menu.

Now in the DNS menu, you need to update the A Records.

• Select the edit icon next to the 'www.yourdomainname.co.za' A record.

• Edit the 'www.yourdomainname.co.za' A record.
• Replace the IP address with the Shopify IP address (23.227.38.65).
• Change the ‘TTL’ to 600.
• Click ‘Update’.

• Back on the DNS management screen, select the edit icon next to the 'yourdomainname.co.za' A record.

• Edit the ‘yourdomainname.co.za’ A record.
• Replace the IP address with the Shopify IP address (23.227.38.65)
• Change the ‘TTL’ to 600.
• Click ‘Update’.

• Back on the DNS management screen, select the edit icon next to the ‘*yourdomainame.co.za / com’ A record.

• Edit the *youdomainname.co.za / com A record.
• Replace the IP address with the Shopify IP address (23.227.38.65).
• Change the ‘TTL’ to 600.
• Click ‘Update’.

Please allow 2 – 4 hours for the changes to take effect.

• Login to the Shopify dashboard.
• Select ‘Domains’.
• Select ‘Connect existing domain’.
• Enter the domain name.
• Click ‘Next’.
• To confirm that your domain is connected to your Shopify store, click ‘Verify connection’.

Well done, you have successfully connected your domain to Shopify. Please allow up to 48 hours for the domain to be verified.