Thanks for your reply. I am very new to this so I am still learning as I go.
As of right now, my .htaccess file looks like this…
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
The tutorial I saw instructed to just copy and paste that code from codex.wordpress.org/htaccess
As for the CNAME. I am hosting my own web server locally on my Raspberry Pi. I am not familiar with resource records, but I am not trying to redirect it to some other hosting service.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.