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title: "Connect your own web address"
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description: "Your site starts at yourname.awdcms.com. Pointing a web address you own at it takes one setting here and one where you bought it."
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# Connect your own web address

> Your site starts at yourname.awdcms.com. Pointing a web address you own at it takes one setting here and one where you bought it.

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How-to

# Connect your own web address

Your site starts at yourname.awdcms.com. Pointing a web address you own at it takes one setting here and one where you bought it.

## 1. Open Web addresses in your site’s dashboard

Dashboard → your site → Web addresses. Type the domain you own and press Add.

## 2. Add the one record it asks for

The page shows exactly what to set where you bought the address — the host and the value. It is one record, and the page checks it for you.

## 3. Wait for it to take

A change like this takes from a few minutes to about an hour to spread. The page says “connected” when it has, and your site then answers at the new address over a secure connection, set up for you.

## 4. Keep the old address working

The awdcms.com address keeps working alongside your own, so nothing you have already shared breaks.

Your own web address is an add-on when you go paid; it is on during the trial. See Pricing.

## Try it on your own site

Or on a throwaway one in the sandbox, with no account.

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