{"id":6700,"date":"2025-11-19T07:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:03:11","slug":"how-to-point-a-domain-to-firebase-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-point-a-domain-to-firebase-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Point a Domain to Firebase at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To point your domain to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firebase<\/a>, follow these steps:<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-step-1-add-the-domain-to-firebase\"><b>Step 1 &ndash; Add the domain to <\/b><b>Firebase&nbsp;<\/b><\/h2><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From your project&rsquo;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/console.firebase.google.com\/project\/_\/hosting\/sites\/_\/domains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hosting page in Firebase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, enter the wizard for connecting a custom domain:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have only one Hosting site, click Add custom domain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/docs\/hosting\/multisites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more than one Hosting site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, click View for the desired site, then click Add custom domain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enter the custom domain name that you&rsquo;d like to connect to your Hosting site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Optional) Check the box to redirect all requests on the custom domain to a second specified domain (such that example.com and www.example.com redirect to the same content).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click Continue to configure your DNS records and finish setting up your custom domain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><h2 id=\"h-step-2-point-the-domain-to-firebase\"><b>Step 2 &ndash; Point the domain to <\/b><b>Firebase&nbsp;<\/b><\/h2><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you have enabled Hostinger CDN, disable it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remove the <\/span><b>AAAA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> record for the root domain (<\/span><b>@<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), if there is one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remove the existing <\/span><b>A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> record or the root domain (<\/span><b>@<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">):<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/b2732422-8379-469d-af37-8e959010b052.jpg\" data-media-id=\"5254\" alt=\"Hostinger DNS records table with the Delete action highlighted for the @ A record\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add the TXT record to verify your domain to your domain&rsquo;s DNS zone:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>TXT record<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Host<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: www<\/span>\n<p><b>Points<\/b> <b>to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><b>custom value from Firebase<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>TTL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: default<\/span><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the domain is verified, you can add the following DNS records to enable SSL certificate with your domain name.<\/span><\/p><table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A record&nbsp;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AAAA record<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Host<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: @<\/span>\n<p><b>Points to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><b>custom value from Firebase<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>TTL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: default<\/span><\/p><\/td>\n<td><b>Host<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: @<\/span>\n<p><b>Points to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><b>custom value from Firebase<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>TTL<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: default<\/span><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once it is fully propagated, you can click <\/span><b>Verify<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the <\/span><b>Connect Domain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> window of the Firebase console allows you to begin the SSL certificate provisioning process.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After making these changes, DNS propagation will begin. This process can take up to 24 hours. During this time, your website may be temporarily unavailable, but it will come back online once the process is complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><p><b>Additional resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firebase.google.com\/docs\/hosting\/custom-domain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connect a custom domain &ndash; Firebase<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To point your domain to Firebase, follow these steps:Step 1 &ndash; Add the domain to Firebase&nbsp; From your project&rsquo;s Hosting page in Firebase, enter the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pointing-domain-to-external-services"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/how-to-point-a-domain-to-firebase-at-hostinger","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","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\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}