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1. on So to set up an email mailbox for brett awesomebusiness com we go to Admin gt Manage Users create a user or change our existing username with the user name brett awesomebusiness com then check the box that says Enable POP Email This will create a mailbox for brett awesomebusiness com sers New User User Details Email Password user yourdomain com au password First Name Last Name Cell Number Richard Dawkins 61415333111 Enable POP Email Vv A Email Aliases Catch Al info yourdomain com au results yourdomain com au sales yourdomain com au Address r save delete Y next 3b Creating aliases Sometimes you ll want to receive emails on other addresses but you don t want to create more users That s what aliases are for so you can have secondary email addresses like sales Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 8 awesomebusiness com or info awesomebusiness com Enter these in the Email Aliases box separate the aliases with semicolons 4 Pointing your domain to us Upon purchasing a domain the registrar will provide you with a user name and password to access their online redelegation tools Log in to their site and locate the area that enables you to change the DNS settings for your domain This area usually contains two fields that allow you to enter the Domain Name Server DNS information which controls the routing of your domain to the servers where they are2. to remember preferably your business name There are a large number of domain name registrars out there if you search for them If you ve already got one from a previous site no problems 2 Setting up your domain name amp its email settings 2a Adding your domain to the system After upgrading your site the next step involves using the Admin Console to set your domain name within the system Follow these steps 1 In the Admin Console choose Admin gt Manage Domain Name Logout Yi PartnerPortal VS Admin Y Theme Manage Users Manage Roles 53 Manage Domain Name 2 Inthe right sidebar choose Set up a domain name Action Box Set Up a Domain Name 3 The Add a New Domain window appears Enter the following information as described below In the Domain Name field enter the domain name that you ve registered without the www such as domain com In the Start Page menu select the home page often index htm or index html that will load first when the user visits the site Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 5 Inthe Country menu select the country where you are located such as United States In the Culture menu select the language and location for your site such as English United States In most cases you ll use the default setting in the DNS service section to select the option I will redelegate my domain and use this service to host it Note lf you d prefer to use an ext
3. web mail from the web admin interface under Home gt Web Mail Here s the setting you need to configure your email client to send and receive email using the same example domain as the above steps naturally you ll need to replace this with your own domain name Email client account setting Use the exact same information you use to login to the system Username myaccount awesomebusiness com This is your FULL email address e Password Your password to log in to your web admin Server Information POP3 for receiving mail mail awesomebusiness com SMTP for sending mail mail awesomebusiness com Authentication Your outgoing mail server SMTP requires authentication This is often an extra setting found in the advanced options or when configuring sending email Without this set up you will be able to receive mail but not send This topic is covered in more detail here http kb worldsecuresystems com 000 bc_8 html For advanced users using an external DNS service If you want to use external DNS service for your domain name you need to create A records for www and non www versions of your domain name and point them to our IP address A record is an entry in your DNS table zone file that maps each domain name e g you com or subdomain e g abc you com to an IP Address In other words the A record specifies the IP address to which the user would be sent for each domain name For example you can have abc you com
4. businesscatalyst An Adobe company Going Live Tutorial Contents Going Live with Your Online Business Let s Get Started Domain names IP addresses and DNS Some advanced terminology Going Live Step by Step 1 Getting a domain name 2 Setting up your domain amp its email settings 2a Adding your domain name to the system 2b Email settings for your domain 3 Setting up email 3a Creating mailboxes 3b Creating aliases 4 Pointing your domain to us 5 Setting up your email client For Advanced Users using an external DNS service 10 11 Going Live with Your Online Business When your site is looking hot and you re ready to rock you ll want to take your site out of trial mode and make it live Taking a site live means a few things You re ready to pay for your site You re ready to buy a domain name www mybusiness com and allow people to access your site by typing that address into their web browser OR you ve got a domain name that currently goes to your old site and you want to switch it over to your brand spanking new online business Who is this for This guide is for anyone who s ready to take their site live and show it off to the world Some sections can be skipped by those with more advanced knowledge these sections will be marked accordingly Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 1 Let s Get Started Domain names IP addresses and DNS If you already know what a domain nam
5. e is what an IP address is and how DNS works you can skip this section Before we get stuck into the nitty gritty there s some concepts and words you ll need to know and understand It s not hard or difficult though we ll be ready to get to the exciting bit in a jiffy What is a domain name Yahoo com is a domain name So is google com cnn com and so on Domain names are those addresses you type in the address bar of your web browser so for you your domain name will be something like awesomebusiness com By the way domain names are always in lower case What s an IP address Well IP addresses are Internet Protocol IP addresses They re addresses to a computer somewhere on the internet when you re online your computer has an IP address and so does every website you visit IP addresses look like this 123 123 123 123 a little like a phone number but the dots are needed So what on earth is DNS Domain Name System DNS is a database system that translates a computer s fully qualified domain name into an IP address Networked computers use IP addresses to locate and connect to each other but IP addresses can be difficult for people to remember For example on the Internet it s much easier to remember and use a browser to type a domain name such as www amazon com than it is to remember and type its corresponding IP address 207 171 166 48 Anyway some clever boffins created DNS so that you CAN ask your com
6. e this google com 64 233 187 99 A C Name is like an aka also known as we love acronyms hooray for your A Record So a C Name allows you to point a different domain name or a sub domain to the same IP address as your A Record Often www somesillydomain com is set up as a C Name for some sillydomain com You d say it out loud like this somesillydomain com aka www somesilly com So you can imagine a C Name would look like this www google com google com This is helpful because if google com changes their IP address later you won t need to update all the other C Names to reflect the change A Name Server is a computer that does a DNS lookup which is basically translating a domain name to an IP address Name servers are our friends they make DNS work Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 3 A Domain Name Registrar is a place that gives out domain names An NS Record is a name server record Name server records are really important because they re the ones that tell the computers where to look for all the A Records and C Names they point to a name server that s responsible for a domain For example google com has one of their name servers at ns1 google com ns1 google com stores all the A Records and C Names for google com Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 4 Going Live Step by Step 1 Getting a domain name If you haven t bought a domain name yet buy one It should be something easy
7. ernal DNS service check the second radio button to select the option will be using an external DNS server See the article titled Using an external DNS service for domain names to learn more about this option In most cases you ll use the default setting in the Email Settings section to select the option I will use this service for email Note You must use the Business Catalyst service to host the DNS in order to use the Business Catalyst email service Unless you are setting up a group of domain names keep the checkbox selected next to the option Use this domain as the default This option is enabled by default and cannot be changed unless you have set up multiple domains In the WWW record options menu leave the default setting Forward the www domain record to this domain In almost all situations you ll want to use this setting unless you are planning on creating a separate A Record for the domain or if you do not want to create a www record for this domain See the section below titled Setting up a Hostname A Record for DNS for more information Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 6 When you are finished the form will look similar to this amp Add a New Domain Add a New Domain Enter your Domain in the form companyname com domain com Choose the start page on your site for this domain index Choose the country for this domain UNITED STATES Cho
8. hosted Assign the following DNS information nst worldsecuresystems com primary DNS server ns2 worldsecuresystems com secondary DNS server ns3 worldsecuresystems com After submitting this information online you may need to wait for the changes to propagate before the domain name update become effective Once the domain name has been redelegated to new name servers it can take up to a maximum of 7 days for this new domain information to update on all relevant DNS servers throughout the world Usually this process happens much faster often a visitor that enters your domain will be able to access your hosted site within 24 48 hours Note You must redelegate your domain name using the DNS service provided by Business Catalyst in order to use the system s email service If you do not want to redelegate your domain name to Business Catalyst and prefer to use an external DNS service instead please see the section below titled For advanced users using an external DNS service to learn more about that process To review your domain name and check if it has been redelegated properly and see where it is pointing you can use an online service such as DNS Stuff Watch their video tutorial to learn more about interpreting the lookup results Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 9 5 Setting up your email client Skip this if you are not using this service for email Firstly you can access your
9. ose the culture for this domain Will you be hosting the domain using this service O i wil re delegate my domain and use this service to host it O Q O I will be using an external DNS server Email Settings will use this service for email must use this service to manage your domain Q gt 4 Y will be using an external email provider V Set this domain as the default domain for your site WWW record options Forward the www domain record to this domain recommended El save U Close 4 Click Save to save the changes The green alert message indicates that the details have been saved successfully W item details saved successfully 5 Click Close to close the Add a New Domain window 2b Email settings for your domain As mentioned above to use our service for mail simply select I will use this service for email and you re set There ll be more on setting up email later Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 7 If you re an advanced user and you d like to use another service for your email in the above settings simply choose the second option to I will be using an external email provider 3 Setting up email Skip this step if you re not using this service for email 3a Creating mailboxes In this system users and mailboxes are the same thing one user is one mailbox and the email address you use to log in to the system and so on becomes the email address you receive mail
10. point to one IP address and xyz you com point to a different IP address Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 10 To create an A record you ll need to have you ask your domain name registrar or your separate external DNS provider to add these to your name servers Your registrar the company that s responsible for your domain records remains unchanged and you ll continue paying renewal fees to that provider In most cases you will get login details from your registrar that will allow you to administer your domain name If you are using external DNS and mail servers you will need to create an A record that points to our IP address Our IP addresses for the relevant data centres are for sites on the Australia data center 54 236 190 114 or 54 236 189 64 for sites on the United States data center 54 246 209 120 or 54 246 209 119 for sites on the European Union data center Once you ve done that you need to setup their Mail Exchanger record MX record that points to the appropriate mail server s IP address Email can not be hosted on the system if the domain is using external DNS If you want to use our email service you will need to perform DNS redelegation To check if you have setup your domain properly you can use a service such as DNS Stuff that will help you understand the results of a domain name lookup Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 11
11. puter to look up google com and it will find you 64 233 187 99 That s right DNS translates domain names that people understand into IP addresses that computers understand Business Catalyst Going Live Tutorial 2 DNS is a marvellous invention because it means that if you want to visit a website or chat to someone online you don t need to remember the IP address Just remember google com and you re set to go One more thing one phrase we re going to use quite often is somesuch domain points to so and so IP address This is just saying that your computers will associate some domain name to some IP address for example google com points to 64 233 187 99 Got it Great Moving on Some advanced terminology You can skip this for now if you re in a rush Just remember this section is here if you find some weird terminology that you don t get So we know that a Domain is your human readable name like google com or mycompany com A Subdomain is a subsection of your domain name that you can point to a different IP address if you like Believe it or not the famous www is actually a subdomain www google com is a subdomain of the domain google com news google com is a subdomain of google com too A DNS A Record is a record inside a DNS server that links a domain name to an IP address It s a big part of what makes DNS actually work For example the A Record for google com might look lik
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