I’m trying to get some use out of my server’s domain name and getting a bit of a headache.

Everything is fine for accounts/domains created in WHM including subdomains and self signed SSL which all use my name server IPs: “ns1.maindomain.tld” and “ns2.maindomain.tld”.

I’m trying to create https://secure.maindomain.tld so far I’ve created a new account “secure.maindomain.tld” and assigned an IP.

I cannot get it to resolve. I’m waiting for it to resolve at http://secure.maindomain.tld before creating any certificates. (http://IP works fine).

Is my problem not having a SOA record for “maindomain.tld” on my machine? I have SOA records for the 2 name servers and “secure.maindomain.tld”.

I had to use my registrar to make “ns1.maindomain.tld” and “ns2.maindomain.tld” work but that is just for name servers right?

It may be something simple and I’m just being a newb since this is my first dedicated server

Thanks!

CPanel will create a DNS Zone for secure.domain.tld. This is incorrect. You must manually delete the secure.domain.tld zone, and add the appropriate 'A' (host) records into the domain.tld zone. Mainly this would be:

secure A 1.2.3.4

Where 1.2.3.4 is the IP of secure.domain.tld.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I think I need to let the dust settle and see if it all resolves though. So far this is what I've done:

When I setup the server I had pointed "maindomain.tld" to ns1/ns2.rackshack.net.

Then I configured my name servers and setup several accounts.

Everything seemed to be working but I had left "maindomain.tld" pointing to rackshack.

I tried to setup the "secure.maindomain.tld" A record in the EV1 member area.
It was my first time there so it created the record at "ns1/ns2.ev1servers.net".

I wasn't sure about the RS-->EV1 switch. So at my registrar I pointed "maindomain.tld" to "ns1/ns2.ev1servers.net" instead of "ns1/ns2.rackshack.net" .

I had not manually created a zone for "maindomain.tld" on my server (have now). It seems strange to point "maindomain.tld" to "ns1/ns2.maindomain.tld" so I'm going to wait for it to resolve to the EV1 name servers first


Thanks again, I'll post when it starts working.

LHP

This is now resolving fine to my own nameservers.

I had to manually created my own “maindomain.tld” to add the "secure" A record to and delete the zone “secure.maindomain.tld” that Cpanel had created

Thanks