Using a Top-Level-Domain for Voice-, Gameserver and a Webspace Simultaneously

People often ask if it’s possible to use a Top-Level-Domain (e.g. mydomain.com) to connect to your Gameserver and to browse your Webspace at the same time.
In the following article, you will learn how to do this.

How does it work?

A wildcard DNS-entry redirecting to the IP of your Gameserver will be created. On this Gameserver, there’s a Webserver redirecting to the “www” subdomain.
If you use “mydomain.com” as a URL now, you will be redirected to “www.mydomain.com”. As a second step, you only have to redirect the “www” subdomain to your Webspace.

What do I have to do?

1. 1. If you use a Nitrado webspace:
      Connect your domain to your Webspace by navigating to “My services -> Domains -> Allocate to Webspace package” .

1. 1. Create a ‘@’ wildcard entry in your “My services -> Domains -> Edit DNS” by clicking on the pen icon and adding the subdomains of your Gameserver and Voiceserver through a SRV-record entry.
      Your T op L evel D omain will now redirect to your game- and/or voiceserver.
      You can also use another custom subdomain instead of the ‘@’.
      • • Press here for the explanation of the gameserver part.
      • Press here for the explanation of the voiceserver part.

1. Create a new subdomain and use ‘*’ as the wildcard name. Use the hostname of your Webspace as a target. You can find the hostname by navigating to “My services -> Webspace” (e.g. vweb123.nitrado.net).
   The DNS-entry with the wildcard set to ‘*’ will cause the server to redirect every not otherwise declared DNS-entry to the Webspace.

   

   Sample configuration
2. Optional: More configured subdomains also have to be created like the “www” DNS-entry.

Disclaimer: Changes in the DNS settings can take up to 10 minutes to be working.