Questions tagged [cname]
A CNAME record or Canonical Name record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another, canonical domain name.
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“CNAME record already exists in the zone” when creating SPF txt records
I am setting up mailgun.com to use with my website.
But when I add dns record with type txt name www.example.com and value v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all
as suggested in mailgun setup:
I get the ...
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Is it possible to point my domain to a DDNS? [closed]
I have a server at home that I use for a multitude of things. The domain is currently hosted by GoDaddy. My problem isn't a huge one, but it is quite annoying and I would like it to work the way I ...
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Getting a 404 error after configuring a CNAME alias for a subdomain
For my domain, I am using afraid.org's free dns service, and hostinger's web hosting.
I want to point a subdomain called lanparty. I have created a CNAME for it in freedns. In freedns service's ...
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SRV record with cname
I bought a hosted service which, mainly for DDoS mitigation reasons, often rotates its IPs. So myservice.remoteserver.xxx:666 sometimes goes either to 111.111.111.111:666 or 222.222.222.222:666
I ...
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Any alternative to CNAME records for the root domain?
I have couple domain names which I wanted to park the domain with Bodis. But I also need their subdomain to be available for me for email access (i.e. mail.example.com). The domain is registered via ...
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How to set up wildcard subdomain CNAME records for a multi-tenant app?
We are trying to point a heroku staging app (something.herokuapp.com) to a subdomain on our domain (staging.company.com).
Everything else on the domain (*.company.com) goes to our previous production ...
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Unable to verify ownership of property/website In Google Webmaster Tools / Search Console
Google Search Console will not see a website I manage as my property.
So far I have:
- Added a TXT Record
- Added a CNAME Record
- Added META tag
And all have failed to verify. Here is where it ...
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Heroku App custom domain, forwarding from goDaddy & getting different behavior for `www.example.com` vs `example.com`
I have deployed an app on heroku - http://appsparkler.heroku.com and created a custom domain for it - www.appsparkler.com
Then, from goDaddy, where I have purchased this domain name appsparkler.com, ...
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Register new hosting IP in DNS A Record
At the moment I have example.com that my colleague bought from GoDaddy which was first purchased via Google Work. The purchase did not include a hosting plan. We do not plan to host our website on ...
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How to have domain point to github pages?
So I have a domain registered with 1&1 and I recently decided to create my website using GitHub pages. I added as GitHub told me to, but how can I make my domain point to my GitHub page?
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Same IP for domain and subdomain
It seems that my original post is to confusing, so I rewrote it to be more clear (sry, english is not my first language):
my webcontent is hosted by a different company then my DNS records/domains.
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I Want to use Different Hosting for my Main Website & its Related Subdomains
I just want to know.
I have registered a domain on Bigrock.com and I want to host its primary domain website on Cloudways servers & its all Subdomains on Godaddy.
Something like this.
www....
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nginx redirect subdomain to a url path
I have a requirement where I need to point xyz.tld to abc.def.tld. Additionally I would have to internally rewrite/redirect abc.def.tld to def.tld/abc. So the final result here I intend is when I ...
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getting CDN images indexed with Google
I have somewhere close to 500,000 user-uploaded images hosted on a Cloudfront CDN -- separate from our main host (exampledomain.com). Up until this point, few of them have been getting indexed at the ...
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CNAME to direct one domain to another
I have three unique domains. Let's call them domain1.com, domain2.com and domain3.com. They all need to go to the same website, which I am serving with domain1.com.
Can I just create CNAME records ...
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How to use DNS only to redirect from baredomain to www to another subdomain
I'm trying to redirect my bare domain (http://leun.ga/) to a subdomain (http://nathan.leun.ga/), using DNS records only. (Since it's Github Pages, I can't do any .htaccess magic)
At the moment, I've ...
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How do I add both a CNAME and an A record to Route 53 to use my blog with Pressable?
I'm also aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC 1034 as in this post.
I'm trying to add an external blog hosting service. So I have my domain at www....
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What configuration should I do on the targetting domain from a CNAME domain?
domain A is on server A, while domain B is on a different server B.
The domain A, has a CNAME that points to the domain B. However, when I visit domain A, I get a message from cPanel stating
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Adressing external Wordpress Installation from primary Domain
I have a primary domain, let's call it company.com for example's sake. Under this domain there's a wordpress installation running where i am currently working on my "main Site".
I also currently ...
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Can DNS be configured to use multiple targets for a single CNAME?
My host has various CNAME target server
eg
server1.hostinger.net
server2.hostinger.net
server3.hostinger.net
server4.hostinger.net
server5.hostinger.net
Is a good thing configure the same www....
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How to point naked domain and www to the same Heroku app?
I create a simple Rails app and deployed it to Heroku. This is my app. I use Cloudflare to manage my DNS records and I try to achieve something like this:
This is all my current DNS records inside my ...
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Hosting multiple customer websites on one domain name
I have built a platform where our customers can sign up for a website and just select the information from their database to show on the website.
Currently we tell our customers to point the www ...
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How to update nameservers for my domain
I've registered for a CloudFlare CDN and enabled it for my domain. Now CloudFlare asks me to use two specific nameservers that they assigned to my domain, e.g.
nameserver-address-1.com
nameserver-...
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I'm only able to reach my site using www, but not non-www
I had a website at example.com. I created another website (example.hotelrunner.com) using HotelRunner and changed domains. I did that by changing the A records and CNAME at Netfirms.
Now example.com ...
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Redirect for subdomain not working in GoDaddy. CNAME in place, but getting 404
After reading:
CNAME for subdomain does not work - 404 Error
Redirecting an entire domain to another in one CNAME record [duplicate]
I am facing some problems when trying to redirect a subdomain to ...
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Understanding CNAME and NS in DNS
I'm trying to learn the different types in DNS (A, CNAME, NS etc).
I do understand what they is used for, but the way I see it, CNAME could be used whenever NS is used, or am I wrong?
For instance:
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Nameserver changes and Tumblr custom URL's
I'm hoping I can get some help on some trouble I'm having with using a custom url for my tumblr blog.
To begin with I'll give a background to my setup for my site -
I'm using GoDaddy for as my ...
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Can I point a limited number of subdomains to a subdirectory using DNS?
I have taken my domain Freenom.com (a domain provider) and hosted it on Sixserve.com (a hosting service). The problem is that this hosting service allows only 3 sub-domains for per hosting plan, and I ...
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Set up DNS name servers for WP Engine
I have set up my blog on WP Engine, and have been given a CNAME. My domain name is registered with CrazyDomains, and currently the name servers are pointing to Linode servers (where the blog was ...
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Set DNS subdomain manually
I am using the Zpanel v10.1.1 + CentOS 6.5 after setup all, I transfer all mysql databases, files and then domain. All working perfectly.
But I am stucked at subdomain, when we create a main domain it'...
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How did you set up your DNS records for an Azure Cloud Application
I would like some advice.
I want to be able to have my zone apex and also www point to a cloud application that is running on Azure.
Should I use:
CNAME www.xx.com > xx.cloud....
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Will serving the same content from two different domain names (using DNS CNAME records) hurt SEO?
I'm considering setting up a mobile website. This site will be hosted on someone else's server with a domain such as: mysite.theirsite.com
My issue is that currently, mysite.com is decently ranked ...
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Would a redirect from “/” to “http://www.mydomain.com” (to add the www) delist a site?
I am taking over a site for a client, and their SERP is very low for no obvious reason. I found that there is a 301 that looks like this:
Redirect 301 / http://www.mydomain.org/
When I look at the ...
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Pointing a domain name to a webpage
I'm hosting a project page on github at somedude.github.io/thingeroo and I own the thingeroo.com domain name (through 1&1.com).
I know that I can set up a CNAME to point from thingeroo.com to ...
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CName redirects to www.example.com but not to http://example.com [closed]
I moved a site to WP Engine. I changed the zone file CNAME to point to the wpengine domain. So now I can access www.example.com, but I can not access http://example.com (takes me to GoDaddy "no site ...
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How to connect my custom domain to github.io
What should I do to see my github.io page content when I enter mydomain.com into browser address bar?
I have a custom .com domain and a Jekyll generated webpage at username.github.io/repositoryname. ...
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How do I access subdirectories from a URL Frame
I'm using Namecheap as my registrar, and I'm hosting my page with Microsoft Azure using a linux instance. The page is hosted at <mysite>.cloudapp.net. If I change the CNAME www record within ...
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Good, or Bad? 'www A Record (IPv4)' - “website has a CName Record.”
Question #1:
One DNS Look-up service I use states: (BTW, moodle.org is not my website!)
Your website www.moodle.org does not have CName Record which is good.
Why is this "good"?
Introduction to ...
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Can I set DNS records to use whichever of my two servers is online and prefer the faster one?
I currently have 2 servers with identical files for a number of websites in 2 different locations. One has fast internet access but is regularly offline whereas the other is always on and has slower ...
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Pointing one domain to the other using CNAME and keeping localization
Would I be able to have domain b.com point to a.com/xyz but for the user it should still appear as b.com? I won't be having any content on domain b.com it'll all be hosted on a.com and a.com/xyz ...
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Domain redirect to go daddy shared ip account via IP through an A NAME change
A customers IT department wants to point their domain to a site I've created for them which is hosted on a share GoDaddy account. It's not my primary domain but is a site in a sub directory of its own....
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multiple shared hosting accounts hosting different subdomains of same addon domain?
I have two shared hosting accounts, each with limited storage space:
HostingAccountA with 'PrimaryDomainA', and HostingAccountB with 'PrimaryDomainB'.
A negligible amount of storage is being used ...
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Domain registrar that offers CNAME settings [closed]
I have looked and couldn't find one. Please recommend a domain registrar on which you can change CNAME settings without having a hosting account.
I have to change CNAME setting for my domain to make ...
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Forward subdomain to a new URL but retain the URL entered by the user - Bigrock
I have my static website hosted on bigrock.com.. (xyz.com). I recently created a webapp which I am hosting on Amazon AWS. I wanted my subdomain sub.xyz.com to be redirected to the app deployed on AWS.
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Difference between CNAME and SUBDOMAIN
What is the difference between a CNAME and a Subdomain?
I understand that the a cname (the left side of a domain) can point to the domain, so you can two different urls point to the same address, ie.
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DNS CNAME domain.tld, email address problem
After having bought a domain (example.tld) without webspace, I want to let this point to my other domain called (myhomepage.somefreehoster.com).
I know this will work using DNS CNAME record and when ...
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redirect www to non-www (CNAME needed?)
I want to redirect http://www.example.com to http://example.com.
I would like to avoid duplicated content. Is 301 redirect in nginx sufficent? Is it needed for me to add a CNAME record? My concern ...
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Why doesn't my domain resolve to the hostname CNAME/ALIAS I've specified?
I have a domain set with a CNAME alias to point to Heroku, but it is not resolving.
Here is a link to a screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/03226ntoc4
And here is the output from nslookup:
$ ...
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Do I set a DNS A Record for the new GitHub Pages to use their CDN?
GitHub updated their Pages service for custom domains yesterday and I'm not clear on one small detail. They recommend a CNAME record for www.example.com but do not recommend using A records for the ...
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Changing subdomain url to new root url issue (404)
I have a blog on a subdomain technotes.tostaky.biz and I want to move it to a new URL: www.mytechnotes.biz. Of course, I want to redirect technotes.tostaky.biz to www.mytechnotes.biz.
www.mytechnotes....
