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How to use my own domain name

Tried reading https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/UsingANewDomainForExistingWebApp about 100 times. Not helpful at all. Im using goole domain and im trying to get this to work and nothing will.

Google domain just makes me route the domain i own to pythonanywhere.com which isnt what iw ant. I just want to use www.terrydavistile.com

First get a www.terrydavistile.com webapp on PythonAnywhere. This will not be live yet. That will give you a webapp-XXXXX.pythonanywhere.com that you are supposed to set a CNAME record on.

To do that, uou would have to do something like this and set the www cname to the webapp-XXXXX.pythonanywhere.com value you were given.

You can check if your cname is setup correctly here:

  http://mxtoolbox.com/CNAMELookup.aspx

If correct, you should see the following record:

  Type: CNAME
  Domain Name: www.your-domain.com
  Cannonical Name: webapp-0000.pythonanywhere.com

Note the www on the domain name.