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I have signed up for a xxx.pythonanywhere.com account. I need to use my own domain. I already have a domain registered with GoDaddy.com

What do I need to do to use that domain at pythonanywhere.com

I went through these instructions

https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/OwnDomains

With godaddy, I created a CNAME record that has the following:

This is how the records in GoDaddy look like

Records Last updated 18-11-06 12:39 PM

Type    Name    Value   TTL Actions
A   @   Parked  600 seconds Edit
CNAME   www @   1 Hour  Edit
CNAME   www.mydomainname.com    webapp-503183.pythonanywhere.com    1 Hour  Edit
CNAME   _domainconnect  _domainconnect.gd.domaincontrol.com 1 Hour  Edit
NS  @   ns75.domaincontrol.com  1 Hour  
NS  @   ns76.domaincontrol.com  1 Hour  
SOA @   Primary nameserver: ns75.domaincontrol.com. 1 Hour

- The A record says parked. There are also 2 more CNAME records. What do I need to do to get it to work?

You should delete the CNAME record for www.mydomainname.com -- the .mydomainname.com is automatically appended to the name you specify, so that one is actually trying to point the hostname www.mydomainname.com.mydomainname.com at webapp-503183.pythonanywhere.com.

Once you've deleted that one, change the existing CNAME with the name www to point to webapp-503183.pythonanywhere.com, and you should be all set.

(The one with the name _domainconnect is not a problem, you should leave that one.)