Add your Domain to Ghost

This article will show your how to add your domain to Ghost in the control panel.

1. Log in to the Client Panel

Please log in to the Control Panel with your credentials. Then locate your target deployment on the Home page or the My Applications page.

2. Navigate to the "Site & SSL" page

Click the "Manage" button on the Home page or the My Applications pgae, followed by the “Site & SSL” tab.

3. Add your domain

On this page, you can see that a default domain ghost-XXXX-0.cloudclusters.net is configured for the Ghost site. You can click “Create Domain” to add your customized domain.

• Step 1 Click “Create Domain” to add your customized domain.

• Step 2 Input the domain name. For example: testsite.com

• Step 3 Decide if you would like to use our nameservers or not.

  Yes: If you use our nameservers, please set your domain’s nameservers to ns1.cloudclusters.net & ns2.cloudclusters.net.

  No: If you prefer to use your own nameservers, you must make the "www" and "none" DNS A records of your domain point to the IP address we provide in the Control Panel.

  

  The IP can be viewed here.

  

• Step 4 Click Create to add your domain.

4. Check domain

This is a feature to check your domain health. Click the Check Domain button for a domain. You will get the check result in a few seconds.

If there are any issues about your domain, please make sure the issues are addressed.

5.Enable Free SSL

The following steps are for installing free Let's Encrypt SSL to your domain. If your domain is not pointing to the IP address we provide, Free SSL cannot work.

6. Make your domain as the primary domain.

If you prefer to have a particular domain as your primary one, you can define that as illustrated in the following picture. Changing the primary domain will change the website’s URL and the URL in your Ghost's database.

7. Manage your Ghost Site

Now you can log in to Ghost admin panel and start managing your Ghost site via browser.