I believe the CNAME for the www subdomain should point to your Netlify subdomain, not to your custom domain.
Also, unless you retain your account with Ionos, your e-mail won’t work. As it is, it might require some finesse to get ionos.fr to handle e-mail for a domain it’s not hosting. At any rate, good luck with that.
Thanks @gregraven , I keep my account with Ionos anyway, so I guess it should work?
However, my domain is linked to my wp i.e. I connect to the back office by doing “mySite.com/backend/wp-admin”
But now I’m redirected to netlify and an error page.
Do you know how to set this up?
@gregraven Yes, you understand my problem.
But “Unable to find the IP address of the api.docteur-frey-esthetique.fr server.”
I can’t just config this subdomain DNS on my host :
You don’t need the www.api sub-domain, only the api sub-domain.
The host of your WordPress instance should be able to give you the IP of the server.
If not, the “host” command in the terminal will give you the IP address, if it can reach your WordPress server. For example:
host www.docteur-frey-esthetique.fr
www.docteur-frey-esthetique.fr has address 206.189.73.52
(Of course, this could be your Netlify IP, so you’ll have to look for the domain/ subdomain that matches your WordPress instance.)
Alternately, if you are not using your WordPress instance for anything except as a back end for something like Frontity, you could check to see if there is a server-specific name for it. For example, if you were hosting with WP Engine, it might be something like d-f-e.wpengine.com. If no one is going to visit that site except for admins such as yourself, you could use the “built-in” name, if there is one.
Yes, and the IP adress point on my api sub-domain is real, it’s my api host server… Don’t understand why he don’t find
I have error not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) in terminal.
And my host has a alert who say me : “IONOS DNS settings are inactive if you use a custom name server” Maybe that’s the trouble and he’s not dealing with it…
And The backend needs to be accessible by the customer.