DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Unable to add a domain (purchased from godaddy.com) to the dreamhost account
My client just purchased a domain from godaddy.com and I'm trying to add it as a new domain on their dreamhost account.
But it is unable to be added. It simply doesn't work and doesn't even show any ...
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How can I remove the security/malicious user warning from my website?
I have a domain name tradespring.net, and www.tradespring.net that redirect to my heroku app with a CNAME record. However when I first try to access these sites it gives me a malicious warning
This ...
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302 Redirect causes garbage at end of Wordpress link in Facebook
When I try to link my Wordpress blog to Facebook, the url doesn't resolve properly. There's garbage appended at the end and Facebook is not able to retrieve information from the site. Happens in ...
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How to provide email accounts without changing the DNS?
My client have registered a domain name through BigRock.in, and my client needs 10 email accounts, so I decided to provide it through my web hosting (re seller account).
My question is - How to ...
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Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?
situation
I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie www.intendedname.tld . The ...
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Migrate add-on domain olddomain.com to newdomain.com
I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy :
domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)
domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)
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cPanel email doesn't seem to work - error 550?
I am fairly new to the web hosting game, so bear with me :)
Recently set up a VPS with cPanel and WHM. Everything is going well so far, I've created a user domain and transferred my website there, ...
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Issue updating domain name servers from BlueHost to AWS
I am trying to migrate my site hosting from bluehost to AWS cloud based service.
I have the site up and running on AWS with an elastic IP configured, it loads fine when I specify the IP address in ...
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A record point not working
I'm trying to do an A record point to transfer the hosting of a domain from one provider to another. I don't want to change the nameservers as this will result in emails going down.
The output when ...
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trouble setting up dns for vps
I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at vps.net.
The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying ...
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Wildcard dns record point to multiple servers
I would like to give my users their own subdomain like jack.xxx.com, james.xxx.com, and is using wildcard dns record to do that.
But now I would like to separate users into multiple servers, like ...
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My Herokuapp is inaccessible from custom domain name
I have a Heroku app that is located at myapp.herokuapp.com. I have mapped a domain name to this app, using the A properties. I followed the instructions on Heroku's website to the letter, and it ...
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Tumblr Custom Domain not redirecting properly
I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/ instead of http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still ...
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Make all subdomains point to root unless otherwise specified
I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain.
ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66
*.mydomain.com. CNAME ...
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“NS1” and “NS2” A records suddenly required?
I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company.
The site was working fine until this morning ...
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DNS forwarding used to point godaddy DNS to heroku app: this doesn't work from a corporate network -why?
My domain on Godaddy is set up with DNS forwarding to the heroku app.
This works fine from all the internet connections I've tried except for the one at work. How can I troubleshoot this issue? Is it ...
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Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog
My domain mydomain.com is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.
My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ...
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Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server
I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
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Cannot access area of site using www, without it works
Struggling with this one.
I recently bought hosting and domain name. I have put a holding page on the site, plus installed wordpress in the directory /wordpress.
Going to ...
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How to point GoDaddy to EntryDNS domain
I have a server connected via dynamic IP. I have set up EntryDNS to manage the change of my IP. If I put in my EntryDNS URL it points me to my server's current IP. I purchased a domain from GoDaddy, ...
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Can I register DNS under an IP with a subdomain on 1&1?
I have a server on the website www.example.com, and I want to register another domain like www.examplehelp.com with DNS from www.example.com/help. Can I do something like this on 1&1 domain ...
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WHM local/external mail server confusion
We host several websites on the same server using WHM but this seems to confuse the mail routing when someone has their own external mail servers - it looks locally.
We have our own email accounts ...
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Do I have to create a new master zone for every site in webmin?
I'm new to webmin and would like to use it for three sites.
Do I have to create a new master zone for each of my sites?
Thanks in advance.
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CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin
I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the ...
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Subdomains regarding name servers/domains
I know how to configure subdomains like sub.example.com on Apache etc. My question is, do I need to make any changes to the name servers/domain that is provided to me?
Would it work the same as ...
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DNS: point “WWW.domain.tld” record to another server than “domain.tld”
I have my own server in home and webhosting server. I want to have my server being accessible when typed domain.tld and webpage (from outside webhosting) over WWW.domain.tld.
Webhosting provider gives ...
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DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)
I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with ...
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create redirect of subdomain
I have a new app server that will run an ftp server and a few other things. It won't run a web server.
I want to put that app server on a subdomain so that I can access it. So ultimately I will be ...
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DNS query re website Status: inactive
There is a website i am assisting with which when you do a DNS look up on the following site: Who.is returns a Website Status of inactive, i also noticed the server type is incorrectly reported.
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Domain only forwards with external hosting
I have a domain with Namecheap and hosting with 1and1. Forwarding is no problem - domain.com goes to the right page. The problem arises when I navigate to another page on the website, when it reverts ...
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Link building campaign for externally hosted sub-domain
I am launching a link building campaign for a sub-domain. I plan to ensure that the sub-domain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and ...
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different mail boxes for domain alias on domains.live.com using plesk
I have 1 Primary domain and 5 Aliases.
Primary Domain is:
PrimaryDomain.com
Aliases are:
alias1.com
alias2.com
alias3.com
alias4.com
alias5.com
I like to create following separate Inboxes on ...
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Set up stand-alone IIS server with wildcard SLL cert?
We have a server for IIS 7.5 set up in our DMZ zone for clients to connect to through VPN only, so the client connects through VPN and then uses a web service "locally".
We would like to apply our ...
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A record not resolving
I have a hosted domain at siteground. On this domain & host I have a subdomain with a wordpress install. I wish to move this blog to another host (hostgator), while keeping the domain with ...
