Learn how to connect your Namecheap domain directly with ClickFunnels. This allows you to use your main domain from Namecheap as a custom domain in ClickFunnels.
Why you would need this
You would edit the Namecheap CNAME records if you wanted to use your main domain from Namecheap as a custom domain in ClickFunnels, this set up will help you add the www version of your domain to your ClickFunnels account, it will also assist you in setting up a forwarding so if anyone visits your domain without the 'www' they will be forwarded to the 'www' version set up in your ClickFunnels Account.
What you will need
Note: this article is intended to teach you how to connect your main domain. If you create a CNAME record as shown here for 'www' your main website will ONLY point to ClickFunnels. If you have an existing website at this destination you wish to keep, it is recommended you set up a subdomain instead.
Step 1 Create a CNAME Record
- Click Domain List on the left navigation
- Click Manage next to the domain you'd like to use
- Click Advanced DNS
Note: If you see a www CNAME record pointing to parkingpage.namecheap.com you will remove this record.
- Click +ADD NEW RECORD (in red)
- Select CNAME from the dropdown
- In Host input type in www
- Enter target.clickfunnels.com in the target value input
- Select TTL (Automatic is recommended)
- Click Save Changes which is the green checkmark ✔️
Step 2 Add A Forwarding Rule
- Click + Add New Record (in red)
- From the dropdown Select URL Redirect Record
- In Host Input type the @ symbol
- Enter https://www.yourdomain.com in the target value input
Note: In place of 'yourdomain' type in your actual domain with the https:// and www before it.
- Select Permanent (301)
- Click Save Changes which is the green checkmark ✔️
What you can do now
If you have any questions about this, please contact our support team by clicking the support icon in the bottom right-hand corner of this page.
Comments
7 comments
First of all, the videos do not allow me to pause, and since I cannot do this as quickly as you do I have to keep watching the look over and over again. Also: the screen is so little that I can only see what you are doing if it is large, and this does not allow me to have the instructions and my doc open at the same time so I have to keep having to do multiple steps just to go back and forth. Thirdly, after I finally did it all, I am still no further cause it still does not work. Fourthly: you keep using abbreviations which mean nothing to me such as 'SSL certificate'. I don't care if this is all in Swahili, but it also does not allow me to have any idea of what I am doing, why I need to do it, or how it all fits in, which parts fit where.
Dear Russel Brunson: if you want to 10X your business, then make a simple version of all this, all-inclusive, without forcing us to either get a certificate in your business or hire somebody who does. I have a good idea, I understand what a funnel is and does and how much you have put into it, but the mystery maze that I have to go through in order to set this up is absurd. You are losing all the business from people like me ... I have been in this place before and gave up. I am back, reluctantly, but with my back against the wall, otherwise, I would give up again.
Miriam Jacobs cookbookacademy.com
I'm with Miriam Jacobs. Very insightful message. Please Russell and team...slow down and take a breath. You sell the simplicity in the sales videos, but when you get inside it's very complex to set up. I have 30+ years of IT experience and this is not a walk in the park for me. I can only imagine a non-technical person trying to set this up.
You have gone to great lengths to set this training up, but it is virtually useless to the average person. The videos don't have controls on them and you can't pause them making them unusable.
I agree with these comments as I struggle and have been trying to get an answer to a question about my domain and just got sent to stuff I had already read and still did not get an answer. And it's true the videos go too fast and it is hard to keep up for peeps like me who are really not tech savvy but want to learn to do this. I have paid for about 3 months now and can't even get my domain verified with Clickfunnels let alone get a funnel working to try to get some income from it. That's alot of NZ $ to go down the drain. The first time I asked a question as I could not even get into my account after paying took 6 WEEKS to get answered due to 'experiencing high demand', so the first month and a half I paid but could not access my account.
very frustrating.
Followed these instructions and it didn't work. Namecheap support had me perform this step:
- having logged into Namecheap account, go to your Domain List -> click 'Manage' next to the domain -> 'Advanced DNS' tab -> 'Host Records' section.
- Then click on 'Add New Record' and create the following record:
Type: CNAME Record | Host: www | Value: target.clickfunnels.com | TTL: Automatic
- click on the checkmark on the right to save the changes.
It may take up to 30 minutes for the new settings to be accepted globally.
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Still didn't work - then I was poking around clickfunnels and went to Domains > and clicked verify on my domain. Then click within your domain and scroll down to SSL Certificate > Expand > Setup SSL Certificate.
One minor note, on your redirects you will need to use this https://www.domain.com/ not https://www.domain.com as noted in the article. If you do not use the last "/" if you share a URL that is not the root funnel it will redirect the page to the root.
for example if the user types in domain.com/other they will be redirected to https://www.domain.com, not https://www.domain.com/other.
This was extremely helpful! Thank you, just what I needed. Also, I really did have any issues, I thought Irina did an amazing job!
William Aiken
Is there also a possibility to remove the 'www', I don't use it in my funnels and somewhere and I hate the 'www' its so oldschool
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