Assigning a domain name to a web server VM
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Updated at February 27, 2025
In this tutorial, you will assign your own domain name to a Yandex Compute Cloud web server VM.
To create a VM, you will use a public LAMP image with a pre-installed Apache HTTP server. Alternatively, you can use a public LEMP image with an NGINX web server.
As an example, we will use the example.com domain name mapped to your VM IP address through DNS records in Yandex Cloud DNS. You can register your domain name at any domain name registrar.
You can use one of the following tools to create an infrastructure for assigning a domain name to your web server VM:
- Yandex Cloud management console, CLI, API: Use one of these methods to create your infrastructure step by step.
- Terraform: Streamline creating and managing your resources with the infrastructure as code (IaC) approach. Download a Terraform configuration example from GitHub and deploy your infrastructure using the Yandex Cloud Terraform provider.