1. Change DNS Settings


You can connect your Sheet2Site website in 3 different ways:

  1. Connect as a Root domain
  2. Connect as a Subdomain
  3. Embed to your existing website

Here are some instructions how to change DNS settings:


1.1 - Connect as a root domain

Please one choose that you like more:

  1. As naked domain: example.com
  2. As www domain: www.example.com

As naked domain:

To connect example.com please add this DNS record:


Type Host Value TTL
CNAME Record @ sheet2sitedns.com Automatic

Notes:
  • If you can't add @ value to CNAME Record try do this:
    • Pease make sure that there is not existing A Record with @





. If such record is exist please remove it and try again. This should works for GoDaddy.
  • Try to use you full website name example.com
  • If it still didn't work, please connect your domain as www
  • If you are using Cloudflare to manage your DNS, please switch from Proxied to DNS only for all Sheet2Site CNAME records:




    • As www domain:

    If you already added naked domain records records, please ignore this step.

    To connect www.example.com please add this DNS record:


    Type Host Value TTL
    CNAME Record www sheet2sitedns.com Automatic

    1.2 Redirects





    No matter what you will choose, the vistiros of your webiste will be redirect from www to naked and vise versa, so you will get all the visitors. Example:

      Default is example.com
      If you open www.example.com redirected to example.com

    You need to add this DNS record:

    Type Host Value TTL
    CNAME Record www @ Automatic

    Alterenativly if you can't add @ you can setup a redirect you can setup it in your domain provider. Here are some instructions:




    1.3 - Connect as a Subdomain

    You can connect your subdomain domain jobs.example.com to your sheet2site website in 2 different ways:

    Please one choose that you like more:

    1. As naked domain: jobs.example.com
    2. As www domain: www.jobs.example.com

    As naked subdomain:

    To connect jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:


    Type Host Value TTL
    CNAME Record jobs sheet2sitedns.com Automatic
    CNAME Record www.jobs jobs Automatic






    As www subdomain:

    If you already added naked subdomain records records, please ignore this step.

    To connect www.jobs.example.com please add these 2 records:


    Type Host Value TTL
    CNAME Record www.jobs sheet2sitedns.com Automatic
    CNAME Record jobs www.jobs Automatic




    1.4 - Embed to your existing website

    If you already have a website and want to embed your spreadsheet data in a visual way you can easily do it by adding a code snippet

    Sheet2Site Embed support all major website builders such as Squrespace, Wix, WordPress, Weebly. It aslo support custom website build with code.

    It will keep your logo, navigation bar footer. It will be on a separete page like: example.com/directory

    You can embed your Sheet2Site page to your existing website with Sheet2Site Embed .


    1.4 Check Your DNS


    To check if you added DNS settings correctly please enter your domain (without http or https)



    3. FAQ


    3.1 How long does it take?

    Connecting custom domain may take up to 24h but usually faster. Please be patient. I will message you after domain will be connected.

    Please send me a screenshot once you are finished.


    3.2 Do I need to buy custom domain?

    Yes, you do. You can register domains on namecheap or on anyother domain provider.

    .com domains are generally cheap and cost like $11 / year.


    3.2 I have already an existing website on my own domain

    You can embed it to your existing websitesite with Sheet2Site Embed .

    Alterenativly, you can connect your subdomain like jobs.example.com and you can still keep your current home page example.com that will work independently or you can embed sheet2site into your page using code snippet.