On Sunday the 3rd, customers in Nigeria (my major market) using the 2 major mobile carriers MTN and Airtel have been unable to access my website and a few other Shopify websites too. No one has been able to give an explanation or fix. I decided to day to try a new store, and it is working well. I am…

Alright @Jeraz101 , From your namecheap dashboard, select domains and click on the domain you have issue with. Go to Advanced DNS under records where you have type: A host: [email removed] and the Shopify IP address. change it from A to CNAME leave [email removed] as it is then change the I…

Hey everyone! This should help, although it requires a bit of technical knowledge. Create a Free Cloudflare Account: We’re using Cloudflare because most hosting services (like those using cPanel) don’t allow the required changes to be made directly. Create your Cloudflare account. Add your site …

Wow @idrisetti , thank you so much. Changing from A to CNAME and pointing to my store address rather than Shopify’s IP worked like magic. I didn’t bother signing up for cloudfare, it worked fine on namecheap after the dns update

@kvngosas I am using namecheap as well. can you please write down the steps you took in namecheap to achieve this?

You’re welcome! Happy to help :grinning_face:

@kvngosas Thanks very much, I appreciate. Just responding now because of the time difference. Do have a wonderful day.

I figured this out after weeks of not knowing what to do. I can say for a fact that it has been frustrating. I have had to update my website to mystore.myshopify.com which is really long

Hello, Please were you able to resolve this? I have the same inability to switch from A to CNAME My domain registrar is whogohost

How did you fix the issue, currently facing the same issue , I ran Facebook and instagram ads and I had good CTR and CPC with no sales then I was like what could be the problem bcos I got so many clicks then I decided to visit mai site gbam the site is not opening, I just wasted cash on adverts not …

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Problem with Some Shopify stores in Nigeria

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Sfj026 April 22, 2024, 7:44am 35

Am trying to do this because I have the same issue but I can’t change the test from “a” to CNAME, please help

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Problem with Some Shopify stores in Nigeria

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