How to Use a Custom Domain (URL) with Your Server Using Namecheap

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This guide will help you set up on your server a custom domain using Namecheap.

Setting Up a URL

We want to set up a domain (URL) so our friends can connect to our server with just the URL, like mydomain.com without any of this 198.758.43.3:3532 nonsense.

What you need to do:

Go to your Namecheap domain list: https://ap.www.namecheap.com/domains/list/

Find the domain (URL) you want to use, and click Manage:

Click on Advanced DNS:

You should see something like this:

We want to add a record. Click on Add New Record:

We’ll be adding what is called an A record. This tells other people’s computers where to find your server on the internet. Click on A Record, then add @ to the host field.

For the Value field, we need an IP Address from your server. Find your server by logging in here: https://mc.ggservers.com/index.php?r=server/index

Once you have opened your server, you want to find the line that says IP and has a number next to it. It should look something like this:

You want to copy and paste the number to the left of the colon exactly as it is here into the field that says Value. Click the check-mark to finish.

Now, we have a URL pointing to our server.

At this point, I could connect to my server using my URL and the port number like this: mydomain.com:25698 But, what’s the fun in that? We want people to be able to connect just by typing in mydomain.com. If it says anything other than 25565 for your port here, we need to do a little more work to make the URL work right.

Setting Up a Nice URL

You will have to do the following steps:

We want to go back to our domain in Namecheap and click Add Record.

Scroll down on the list and click SRV Record. This is a service record, we’re telling the world that our Minecraft server is at mydomain.com:port but we’re calling it mydomain.com