I originally hosted my domain kaleighscruggs.com on Namecheap’s cpanel, and a few months ago made the switch to Netlify. I still host my email address with Namecheap, but I just realized I have a site blog.kaleighscruggs.com that’s in limbo. It’s a Wordpress site, it is backed up…but is there any way to ‘see’ it again? How do I point to this site? And where? I’m lost.
hey @kaleigh, welcome.
give this post a read through, it should have some tips on how you can accomplish what you are trying to do!
If not, please comment again and we’ll do some more digging.
hey @perry…I think that helps. So I just need to go to Netlify App and add my subdomain there and figure out the address from my namecheap cpanel to add to it on the Netlify side?
Hi, @kaleigh, you are exactly correct. It is very possible that this record still exists in the now unused DNS configuration at namecheap. If so, the most direct solution (that I can think of) is to find that now unused DNS record, note the details, and then make a duplicate DNS record at Netlify.
If you do this, I recommend looking through all of the previous DNS records to see if there are others that might also benefit from being copied to Netlify DNS. We have a “common issue” type topic about this here also:
If there are other questions, we’re happy to answer.
@luke and @perry this worked! thank you both so much! I’ll check on the records too, I’m sure there are other things that need to be tidied up.
sure thing! glad its working now