If you have bought a BigCommerce site through us then as a reseller we will complete this process for you if you wish at no charge.
Ok so you’ve registered your domain name with 123-reg and you now want to point it at your new BigCommerce store. Where do you start?
Well first a little background, to find your webpage on the WWW, this daisy chain occurs:
Registrar info -> Name Server info -> DNS info -> Locates your hosting -> Serves a webpage
Registrar’s setting
As 123-reg are your domain’s registrars they control the setting that says where your name server is. There is a menu option on 123-reg to change the name server. You can change this to whatever BigCommerce tells you is the setting for your shop.
Name server
Every site has a name server – this tells everyone where your website and mail server information (DNS) can be found. The setting you’ll find probably look like or similar to this:
ns.123-reg.co.uk [required]
ns2.123-reg.co.uk [required]
These are BigCommerce settings for 123-reg
ns1.bigcommerce.com [required]
ns2.bigcommerce.com [required]
ns3.bigcommerce.com [optional]
123-reg has a menu option to change your name server (i.e. the NS setting) in the control panel. These setting will probably be, the same as above, however your e-shop documentation will tell you the BigCommerce settings
Once the Name server is set up, you can then set up the DNS on that name server to point to your web and mail servers.
Setting the DNS.
This holds the IP address etc of your mail and web servers. Currently the DNS is at 123-reg, and points www.yoursite.co.uk to my hosting server 212.48.66.162 or a 123-reg default
Current settings for my website hosting will be:
yoursite.co.uk A 212.48.66.162
*.yoursite.co.uk A 212.48.66.162
These are your example settings for a website shop at BigCommerce whose IP address is 192.200.179.1.
yoursite.co.uk A 192.200.179.1
www.yoursite.co.uk CNAME yoursite.co.uk
The above line just says http:/www.yoursite.co.uk is the same as https://yoursite.co.uk, i.e. 192.200.179.1 AKA BigCommerce.
Below are the settings should you wish to use our email server (212.48.66.162). You need to add/change them in BigCommerce’s DNS if you change the nameserver to them.
“yoursite.co.uk” is the 123-reg fully qualified host name
yoursite.co.uk MX 10 webmail.yoursite.co.uk
yoursite.co.uk MX 20 webmail.yoursite.co.uk
webmail.yoursite.co.uk A 212.48.66.162.
For help in setting the BigCommerce DNS entry for external email contact us, as advice is part of our free service given to all businesses that bought their BigCommerce site through us. If you did not buy BigCommerce through us we may still be able to register you as a client and then offer free advice, otherwise our BigCommerce ‘non-client’ charges are quite modest (£35ph). If you would like to set up the email DNS settings yourself click here for a tutorial.