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# How To Setup Wildcard DNS To View Content of cPanel Accounts


### Need to view content and work with your customer account prior to customer updating the DNS?

This simple 7 step tutorial will show you how to do just that!

**STEP 1:**  **Register a domain that you do NOT intend to use for anything else.**  For example, if your domain is mycompany.com, register a brand new domain called: 
mycompany.NET or dev-mycompany.com.  That way you have a domain that is easy to remember.  Domains are very inexpensive now a days!  For this example, we are using CloudFlare.  You can use any registrar if you like, but **you need to use 'their' external DNS and not NameHero dns!**

If you have registered your domain name with Cloudflare as in this example, navigate to the DNS settings and add a Wildcard DNS entry like so... 

| A wildcard A record is an asterisk and then the IP address of your Reseller account.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_4n475j.jpg)

||| You only need to do this one time.  And just this one wildcard A record for this domain.  That's it.  You won't need to do anything else in the external dns.  The rest is all in cPanel!

**STEP 2:**  Login to your customer's cpanel.  Navigate to Domains, then click 'Add A New Domain'.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_1y0zcom.jpg)

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**STEP 3:**  Now add the 'subdomain' like so...  yourcustomer.your-cloud-flare-domain.com.  In this example, I am using secureiserver.com.  So I have added: 
namehero-test.secureiserver.com.  Be sure to check the box to 'share' the document root.  Then click Submit!  

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_1fekg9t.jpg)
**STEP 4: ** Time to add the Free SSL!  In cPanel, navigate to SSL/TLS Status!

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**STEP 5:**  Since we are only going to be using the initial A record for this temporary domain, click on exclue on the domains we are not going to be using.  In this case, mail.namehero-test.secureiserver.com and www.namehero-test.secureiserver.com.   

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|| Once those additional domains are excluded, click on the Run AutoSSL!

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_hdr1n.jpg)
**STEP 6:**  Once the green SSL is done you are good!  This process can take about 20-30 min depending on the server load and cPanel CA.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_ulxmki.jpg) **STEP 7:**  You're done!  Go visit your website!

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/a/7/9/f/a79f0cb367cf8000/iscreen-shoter-google-chrome-2_1q2cp1d.jpg)