Setting Up Your Domain for Letterman Through CloudFlare
# Register and Login to Cloudflare.com
Cloudflare does offer paid accounts for the purposes of getting your domain setup with letterman. You can just register for a free account. I already have a free account and just signed into my existing account.
My walkthrough will use the domain name neurodivergentu.org through these steps.
My domain is registered with namecheap.com and I am changing the DNS to be managed by cloudflare and then will continue to the needed steps in side letterman after getting my DNS changes from namecheap to cloudflare.com
I am not using this domain for anything other than my domain name.
If by chance you have a website setup and want to also use that domain for your newsletter please contact us at the helpdesk and share this information before proceeding and we will work with you to get you a different set of steps to follow to create a sub domain on your existing domain that can be used for the newsletter.
1. Click on Log in
2. Add a Domain Name to your account. I added Neurodivergentu.org and click Quick Scan for DNS records. The domain is registered at namecheap, so cloudlare will scan the existing records that are setup for this domain and re-create them inside cloudflare.com,
3. Click on Continue
4. Click on Free plan.
5. Click on Continue
6. Click on Continue to activation
7. Cloudflare DNS Records
You will be given a screen similar to the one below of two DNS servers.
Click copy next to the first.
8. Login to your NameCheap.com account and find your domain name.
9. Click on Namecheap BasicDNS
10. Click on Custom DNS
11. Paste the value you copied from Cloudflare into input
This would be the first nameserver they provided from the account.
12. Click to copy next to the second nameserver they provided you.
13. Paste the second DNS server into input
Paste the value into the second nameserver spot.
14. Click on Save GREEN checkmark.
15. Your settings are saved when you see the green banner.
16. Click continue to finish adding your domain and the setup on cloudflare's side.
17. Click on Continue
# Click check nameservers now
this can take about 30-60 min. Usually it's 10-15 min or so.
18. Click on Check nameservers now
19. When you see Active - you are ready to go !
# Login to Letterman
Using the credentials we provided you, login to your account.
https://app.letterman.ai
20. Click on Domains - should be last option in the top toolbar.
21. Click on Add Domain
22. Type your domain the Domain URL field
Your domain needs to have the https:// in front of it and does not need to have the www in front of the domain.
You can leave the root domain redirect type empty at this time and do not click Add Domain yet, until you create your cname records in Cloudflare which is the next step.
23. Click the Copy button next to cname.letterman.ai
24. Click on DNS
25. Click on Add record
26. Click the dropdown next to the record type to change it.
27. Click on CNAME for the record type
28. Type your domain name no https:/// or www just the bare domain name and the ext in my example it would be neurodivergentu.org in the NAME field.
29. Paste "cname.letterman.ai" into Target field
30. Uncheck Proxy status to turn it off so it's not orange and is grey.
31. Click on Save
32. Click on Add record
33. Click the dropdown to change the record type.
34. Click on CNAME
35. Click on Name…
36. Type "www" no period just www
37. Paste "cname.letterman.ai" into text area
38. Uncheck Proxy status
39. Click on Save
40. Click on Add Domain inside Letterman
41. The SSL issues will be YES for pending.
42. Give it about 3-4 min and refresh your browser and pending will change to No and the issued will now say Yes.
You have completed the steps to add your domain name to letterman for setup.
To proceed you now go to the publications section and create your publication.
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