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Using namecheap dns with cloudflare

Since CloudFlare doesn't provide E-mail forwarding I need to leave my DNS management on Namecheap. What DNS records (A,CNAME,...) would I need to point to CloudFlare (and to where) to be able to still use their functionality whilst leaving the rest…
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SPF softfail domain does not designate IP as permitted sender

I use both mailgun and a namecheap mail server (where I also have my domain) and when I receive mails in my gmail account, mailgun is recognized as a permitted sender, but that's not the case of namecheap. That's what I get: Received-SPF: softfail…
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How do I configure namecheap for "arbitrarily-nested" wildcard subdomains?

I'm trying to set up something like nyud.net, where any arbitrary chain of subdomains resolves to the same CNAME record (which in my case points to an amazon elastic load balancer). Ex: www.gogle.com.nyud.net:8080 points to one of their cache…
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ddclient to update namecheap subdomain?

I have a subdomain that I want to update with ddclient. I configured the ddclient to get the IP from dyndns but it's not updating the subdomain on namecheap. They said to use yourdomain.com as the login instead of my actual domain. Has anyone been…
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How does my registrar (Namecheap) let me set up a CNAME record on the apex domain?

Namecheap seems to let me create a CNAME record on the apex domain, which I thought was contrary to the definition of a CNAME record: It works (correctly loading up my static site from S3). Weirdly (and I'm not sure if it's related), there seem to…
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Lets Encrypt ACME2 Challenge NameCheap Personal DNS

I'm trying to get a wildcard certificate, but running into the issue that I use Namecheap as a registrar, and for API access I need to spend more money than I'm willing to, so I'm looking for alternative solutions. One of the supported DNS Servers…
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ssmtp settings for namecheap: Invalid response SMTP Server (STARTTLS)

I am trying to configure ssmtp to use the namecheap smtp server to send emails. My current…
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Connection refused error while accessing my server with AWS elastic IP

I have followed all these below mentioned steps Create an Elastic IP and point to the Amazon EC2 instance. Goto service Route 53, create a ‘A’ record and point to the Elastic IP. In Route 53, copy the Amazon NS (name server) urls and paste in…
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Https version of web application is not working but http is?

I am using Heroku to host which provides me a nice https: address: https://some_random_string.herokuapp.com/ I use Namecheap to setup my DNS and I do this using: CNAME Record | www | www.my_domain.herokudns.com. I found this information using…
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HTTP redirect (301, 302) with HSTS/.dev domain

I own a .dev domain, which is included on the HSTS preload list. The domain is registered with Namecheap. Now, when trying to set up redirects (301,302) from my www. to non-www, this is apparently causing problems. Services like…
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AWS SSL wildcard not working for subdomain

I've created SSL certificate on AWS using Certificate Manager (ACM). I included the domain and wildcard in the list of domains for this certificate: mydomain.com *.mydomain.com Then I uploaded some application to Elastic Beanstalk. To redirect to…
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Namecheap domain not masking URL when redirecting to Heroku

I have a domain with Namecheap that I am attempting to redirect to a Heroku app. It currently DOES redirect, but does not mask the URL. (So visiting www.customdomain.com redirects to app-name.herokuapp.com, but then the URL stays as…
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Exim client not issuing STARTTLS when connecting to smarthost

I have a Debian8 server running exim4 that sends outgoing mail by smarthost through NameCheap's mail.privateemail.com smtp server - or at least it use to. After a recent update, the server no longer accepts connections on port 25. I've reconfigured…
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ddclient fails to update ip on namescheap.com

I'm using ddclient 3.8.1 on ubuntu 14.04 to update my dns records on namecheap.com. But now it stopped working. Syslog says: WARNING: file /tmp/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' = '' And when I run ddclient -query I…
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Namecheap + ddclient - 400 Bad Request Error

I just registered a domain on namecheap, and want to self-host through ddns. I have my host setting setup as: @ 127.0.0.1 A (address) www http://domain.com HTTP Redirect So clearly I'm trying to make it so that a…
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