I recently purchased a domain name from godaddy, and have been unable to link it with apache which i am running from my home on a server. The server uses windows xp (because of my lack of linux skills). I though i might have to point my domain name to my apache or something of the sorts. I am really lost right now, and any help would be very useful. Thanks
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Jump to Postin godaddy's dns interface, add an a record for your ip as well as another one called www.
that way your url will be resolved to your ip, where your apache lives. don't forget to portforward (if needed).
usually the dns update takes some time to spread to …
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