{"id":385,"date":"2025-02-28T02:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/02\/28\/10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:41:07","slug":"10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Horizons: How to Connect a Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Connecting your domain to Hostinger Horizons is a very easy process. Check the video below to learn how to do it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-h2b-video\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Connect a Custom Domain: Hostinger Horizons Tutorial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bM0WFwK4h_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Or keep reading for more detailed step-by-step.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_66a23cad0e\">Connecting your domain<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">First, if the domain is not pointed to Hostinger, make sure to change the nameservers to those of Hostinger and then proceed. You can find more details about it <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-point-a-domain-to-hostinger-horizons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. You can also point it following a second method, which would be via CNAME records, also stated in the article.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If the domain is already registered at Hostinger or pointed to Hostinger, proceed to the next steps.<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Navigate to the <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites list<\/a> section on the left sidebar,<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Click on <b>Change domain<\/b> for the specific web application that you wish to connect to your domain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Follow the next steps on the hPanel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/e9fc4a91-b8c2-44aa-9240-8b208c9c30c9.jpg\" width=\"700\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You can also connect your domain inside Horizons editor. For that, follow these steps:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Click on the <b>Publish<\/b> button to prepare your website for going live:<br>\n&#8203;<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/04\/c500b704-b491-44b1-b299-823c6ae5d818.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Once your website is ready to publish, you&rsquo;ll see an option to <b>Connect Domain<\/b>. Click on the <b>Get Domain<\/b> button:<br>\n&#8203;<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/04\/a7663939-73ea-439c-ba44-b9f920d844d1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">This will redirect you to the next screen where you&rsquo;ll be able to enter the domain you want to use. Enter the name and follow the next steps inside hPanel.<br>\n&#8203;<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/04\/af404d2e-900c-45d3-b2ef-763fb55db1b6.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p class=\"no-margin\">If you want to <b>change the domain connected<\/b> to your Horizons project, you can follow the same steps and enter the new domain you&rsquo;d like to use and follow the instructions on hPanel.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Important Notes: <\/b>Changing your domain will reset your email plan, and <b>all email data<\/b> related to the old domain <b>will be lost<\/b>. Be sure to back up important data before making any changes. If there are any subdomains under the domain that&rsquo;s being changed, they&rsquo;ll also have to be updated manually.<\/p>\n<\/div><h2 id=\"h_7678cd0655\">How to get your web app online<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">After connecting your custom domain to the web app created with <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/horizons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horizons<\/a>, in order to get your web application live, you need to publish your project.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To publish it, click on the Publish button in the top right corner of your Horizons tool:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/73dbf174-b70e-4d21-a356-0f0cc9dab77c.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">When the publish is successfully completed, you will be presented with a unique generated link to view your new web app:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2025\/02\/ee36e43a-701e-4d31-a39c-52143adc109c.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">When the publish is successfully completed, your new web application is now live and ready to be used &#128640;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You can find more details about publishing your project in <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/10506149-hostinger-horizons-how-to-deploy-your-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to connect a custom domain to your web app created with Hostinger Horizons and get your web application live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-horizons"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10672797-hostinger-horizons-how-to-connect-a-domain\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8314,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}