Using InfinityFree with Namecheap's nameservers

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I got the infrastructurefactory.com domain from Namecheap. I then setup email service for it with Google Workspace and it worked. I needed a simple one-page site at my domain, so I signed up with InfinityFree and created one with the site builder. I was told to change the nameservers to the InfinityFree ones and I did. This worked for the website (it was showing up at the domain), but messed up Gmail.

I found this thread – How can I use my domain here without using nameservers? - #7 by Greenreader9 – saying that once I had added the domain to a hosting account (as I had), I can move it back to another nameservers and point the domain to the Website IP of the hosting account.

So I changed the nameserver back to Namecheap BasicDNS, and under Redirect Domain I pointed my domain to 185.27.134.34 (which is the Website IP that appears in my InfinityFree hosting account).

But now the website I created with the InfinityFree site builder no longer appears at my domain – or even at 185.27.134.34

Please point me to the steps I need to go through to fix this.

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Hi there,
After opening your website, it redirects me to

This is incorrect.
Make sure you are setting up A records instead of redirects*.

I don’t know much about what kind of dns control is namecheap giving to you, but generally, it will work, if the records are correct.

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Thank you very much for engaging with this! I do not understand your suggestion. Could you please clarify:

I currently have this:
Type | Host | Value | TTL
URL Redirect Record | @ | 185.27.134.34 | Unmasked
URL Redirect Record | www | 185.27.134.34 | Unmasked

When I enter my domain name, it redirects me to 185.27.134.34 – so it seems the redirect is working correctly, but no site is showing up at 185.27.134.34 – even though InfinityFree says this is the IP.

Doesn’t that mean that the problem is somewhere with InfinityFree not publishing the site to the IP address it is supposed to?

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You’ll have to point to the website IP through an A record, and NOT with an URL redirect record. So remove the URL redirect records and follow this to add A records through Namecheap’s BasicDNS:

but only for @ and www, replacing 11.22.33.44 with 185.27.134.34 in this case when you follow this guide.

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JxstErg1, thank you very much! Greatly appreciate it.

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