Alibaba Cloud DNS:Configure a CNAME record for CDN

Overview

You can point a domain name to the CNAME provided by the CDN provider.

Prerequisites

To use the Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, you must point an origin domain to the CNAME. Then, requests destined for the origin domain can be redirected to CDN nodes. You can contact your CDN service provider to obtain the CNAME.

In this topic, the CNAME provided by Alibaba Cloud CDN is used as an example.

1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud CDN console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Domain Names.

2. Obtain the CNAME of an origin domain.

Add a CNAME record

1 . Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console

2 . In the left-side navigation pane, click Manage DNS. On the Domains tab, click a domain name to go to the DNS Settings page.

3 . Click the Add Record button. In the dialog box that appears, enter the CNAME provided by the CDN provider in the Value field.

4 . The CDN service immediately takes effect after a new CNAME record is added.