{"id":961,"date":"2018-01-07T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=961"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:14:52","slug":"how-to-add-a-record-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-add-a-record-in-cpanel","title":{"rendered":"How to Add &#8220;A Record&#8221; in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nThe &#8220;A record&#8221; is a DNS record used for pointing a domain or a subdomain to an IP address. You can add A <strong>A Record<\/strong> using the cPanel&#8217;s Zone Editor option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Domains<\/strong> section, click on <strong>Zone Editor<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/cpanel-dnszone-icon.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Under <strong>Domains<\/strong>, you can see many options below <strong>Actions<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/cpanel-a-record-domains-list.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Click on <strong>A Record<\/strong>, and a pop-up box will open. Please, enter the required details in it.<br \/>\n<strong>Name:<\/strong> Enter the name you want to add. For example, enter <strong>blog<\/strong> and the cPanel will automatically add a domain name such as blog.cloudwafer.com\/blog.<br \/>\n<strong>Address:<\/strong> Enter the IP Address of the server.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/cpanel-a-record-add-domain.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Now click on <strong>Add an A Record<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Congratulations<\/strong>, you have successfully added <strong>A Record<\/strong>. The DNS propagation can take up to 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Note:<\/strong> It may take anywhere from 12 to 24 hours for the changes to take effect worldwide.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;A record&#8221; is a DNS record used for pointing a domain or a subdomain to an IP address. You can add A A Record using the cPanel&#8217;s Zone Editor option. 1. Log in to your cPanel account. 2. In the Domains section, click on Zone Editor. 3. Under Domains, you can see many options &#8230; <a title=\"How to Add &#8220;A Record&#8221; in cPanel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-add-a-record-in-cpanel\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Add &#8220;A Record&#8221; in cPanel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[76],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-961","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_category?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_tag?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}