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Colliding record error when connecting Google App Engine with my subdomain via A, AAAA, and CNAME records
Our website is hosted with loopia at example.com, but we also have a webapp running on Google App Engine which we would like to run on subdomain.example.com.
We also have a couple of other subdomains ...
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Does it matter whether a CNAME is specified with fully qualified domian or not ( “www” vs “www.example.com”)?
On the internet I find examples of how CNAME should look like. And I find both: record which contains full name www.example.com, and here:
Host | Type | Data
-----------------+-------+---...
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www.subdomain.example.com not working despite trying various DNS entries and Godaddy forwarding options, can only get an nginx error
I have a website that is online at the moment. For this website, I have a subdomain staging.example.com. I am using GoDaddy for domain hosting. My server is on an EC2 Linux instance with AWS. I have ...
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Dynamically assign a synthetic record to Google Domain
I own a domain on Google Domains.
I want to create subdomains for my projects dynamically.
For example:
My Domain:
https://adomain.example
Subdomain:
https://project-name.adomain.example
Where ...
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Mailman AND external mail service
I have a virtual server (with a Plesk instance) and a domain, both from a hosting provider who also hosts an email service (on a central server) for the same domain (i.e. info@mydomain.example). I ...
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How to redirect from subdomain to another port without showing IP on browsers address bar?
I tried to add another service on the same server with different port, I found that in Cloudflare, we should use A record with page rules to redirect that subdomain to ip address with specific port.
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Setting NS for Subdomain to Another Hosted Zone with Same Apex Domain
Suppose I own example.com.
I delegate the subdomain www.example.com to a particular set of NS that is say a Route53 Hosted Zone. The rest of the example.com zone is not on R53 and contains important ...
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Do empty subdomains hurt a domain's reputation for email deliverability or SEO?
If a company has a lot of old DNS entries for subdomains that point either nowhere (CNAMES that no longer resolve to anywhere) or at servers that are no longer online does that hurt the main domain's ...
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Office365 subdomain on Cpanel
My domain is managed by Office365 - I want a sub-domain to point towards another hosting package I pay for so that I can setup a Wordpress site.
I have access to create A and CNAME records, however, ...
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Point root domain to a subdomain of another site
How can I point my root domain example.com to a subdomain of another site subdomain.example2.com?
he subdomain is wildcard subdomain. I have cPanel root server access.
I just want to make it looks ...
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Subdomain to subdirectory forwarding with SEO integrity [closed]
I've set up a blog on webflow at blog.mysite.com. However, I'd like to have the blog live at mysite.com/blog for SEO purposes. See here for more detailed thought process.
Cloudflare solves this ...
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How do I point a subdomain to a google app engine instance if domain is used by a website builder?
I have a domain that is currently set up to go to a squarespace website. I am also developing an app and so would like to host my API using Google App Engine.
I would like to use a subdomain to ...
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MX for subdomain not showing up
I have an Apex domain with two MX Records e.g.
Example.com
MX 10 cluster.host.com
MX 20 cluster.host.com
This domain has a subdomain with a different MX record e.g.
Sub.example.com
MX 10 filter.host....
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How do I change the content on my website based on subdomains all pointing to the ASPX same server? [closed]
I have created multiple subdomains on my DNS (en.example.com / pt.example.com / ru.example.com), all related to languages and all pointed to the same IP address.
I want to get the information from ...
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How do I host my web app locally on a subdomain of Google Domains (DNS settings)
I hope I phrased my question right, but I am hosting a web app on my server at home. I have a domain via Google Domains and I don't know how the DNS settings work.
I'm running the app on port 8082 ...
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Subdomain wildcard for development server under dev
I recently purchased a new domain i.e. mydomain.io which I'm planning to use for my brand new app.
The app was designed to be multi-tenant meaning that each user account points to a different ...
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Will a DNS record for the main domain impact my subdomain?
I want to move all content from the main domain to a subdomain. Then I will connect the main domain to webflow. To make it work I will have to change the DNS.
Will the subdomain be affected by the ...
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Do country-code top level domains have sites on second level or only always on third level domains?
I have always seen country-code top level domains (ccTLDs) with sites like: example.ac.uk, example.co.uk, etc.
Do the country-code top level domains always only allow sites on these third level ...
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List of reserved third-level DNS zones?
The DNS zone name _domainkeys is used for email authentication through TXT records. The zone names _tcp and _udp are used to advertise application availability through SRV records.
Naturally, a ...
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Dynamic Subdomains - Should I use DNS API or a wildcard CNAME record?
I want to provide new subdomains based on user request. I realized that there are two ways to do it:
Using API of the DNS provider to register new CNAME records that point to pages within the website
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I have my main domain pointed to my main web host, and now I want to create a subdomain for Google Blogger [closed]
I have purchased domain from Domain India (www.example.com) and hosting at Cloud247.com and the main site (www.example.com) is hosted at Cloud247.com. But now I want to create a subdomain (xyz.example....
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My subdomain will redirect to root domain. How do I fix this?
My Subdomain will redirect back to the main site. How do I fix this so it redirects to the subdomain? My main site is a WordPress adult site so I'll use example.com to explain. All I have in the ...
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SEO: Separate domain targeting each state or one domain with state-specific sections
I'm part of a business based in Western Australia, for example, Online Training Western Australia, currently operating a website on onlinetrainingwa.com.au. Our original goal was to provide the ...
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Can the wildcard DNS record for 2nd level subdomains differ from the wildcard rule for 1st level subdomains?
We have an A record that points *.example.com to an IP address.
Is there a way to prevent 2nd level subdomains (*.*.example.com) from being directed to that IP? Or direct them somewhere else?
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Is it necessary to own both domains if I want to forward, redirect, and/or alias a subdomain?
Please forgive me (and please correct) if I misuse jargon and terminology -- web hosting, administration, etc. is new to me.
Say I want to host a site at each of the following addresses:
http://www....
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Strange redirection to root when trying to access subdomain
There's this weird issue that's been keeping me wondering what's happening. I apologize for the lack of specificity, but I need to abide to a strict NDA policy. So here goes my question:
Is there ...
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Delegating DNS: Are my AWS Route53 NS records propagating correctly?
I'm delegating traffic from NameCheap to Route53 on AWS and, after three hours, the site is not up. Chrome is responding with a "This site can’t be reached" error page. Granted, we're still well ...
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how to use a subdomain for a website when it has another SRV record on it
I am hosting a Mineraft server on the port 25601 and because I didn't want users to have to type the port in, I made a SRV record in my DNS settings so that minecraft.mydomain.com points to mydomain....
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DNS A/CNAME for two domains with subdomain - how to setup?
Starting over, as I overcomplicated the former description of my problem...
I would like some help to set up the DNS for my two domains so I can access the content from one on the other
I have these ...
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How can I add MX record for a subdomain using cPanel?
I have recently created a subdomain in cPanel.
I want to use that subdomain for office 365 email service. I could not create the MX record for that subdomain in cPanel's zone editor. How do I do ...
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How do I make a subdomain visible at new URL, as if it is the URL?
I've built a site at subdomain.domain.org using Wordpress with Nixihost. It is done. I'd like to make it visible at www.mynewdomain.com and look like the visitor is at www.mynewdomain.com/page1 not ...
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Cloudflare DNS: How to 301 Redirect all traffic from Sub Domain to Main Domain with URL path?
I am using cloudflare to manage my domain, and I wanted to add a subdomain. I tried to do this:
But it gives me an error. How would I add a subdomain like blog.example.com that sends to example.com/...
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Domain Set up - Mail/WebServer/Subdomain/Shopify
I'm having a bit of trouble with the set up of my domain. What I'm trying to do is use my domain www.mydomain.com so my web server is linked to that (name servers I'm guessing) then I also need gmail (...
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gh-pages not allowing multiple subdomains
I am following the Github Pages tutorial. I thought I could have two domains: api.website.com and website.com, and the first is created via a folder called api in my main website folder where index....
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DNS records for subdomain with Google App Engine ambiguity
Let's say, I own example.com. It already points to a live website, which I do not under any circumstances want to accidentally prevent access to because of bumbling around with DNS settings.
I now ...
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Why is the limit of subdomains in DNS at 127, and character limit at 255?
I couldn't find an explanation to why this is so. Is there something silly I'm missing?
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Internal server error after setting up subdomain on Godaddy
I am having a hosting server and i want to create a sub domain for apis hosted on same server.What i want is suppose I have my domain name domain.com and want to have sub domain api.domain.com and set ...
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Allowing users to map domains to a subdomain by using an IP address or Host name that wont change if I move servers
I'm building a service, much like http://dunked.com where users can map their domain name over their subdomain.
Example: carlcox.vibecast.com would be www.carlcox.com
The process of building this ...
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Can Google find and crawl subdomains with no backlinks?
I know Google can find domains by checking with registrars, but is it able to find new subdomains with no backlinks?
I suspect they are able to by checking DNS records, but can anyone confirm/deny?
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Use of subname.example.com format in phishing
I have noticed some phishing emails that copy format that Google or Gmail use in their URLs for account login or OAuth logins:
https://accounts.google.com/
I've seen URLs like
http://accounts....
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Do I need to redirect my CDN subdomain www version to the non-www
I just uploaded some images to a CDN that is available under:
http://subdomain.example.com/image/filename.jpg
So I need to make any redirect as I do for the main domain? In that case I redirect the ...
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How to display client's custom subdomain in the address bar?
Let's say I have an online service for webmasters at example.com. My service presents a web app to be used by the visitors to the websites owned by my webmaster clients. The web app lives at mywidget....
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Pointing subdomain to another server (Godaddy + CPanel)
I've researched and tried a lot of solutions online, but none seems to solve my problem, it seems something is missing.
I have domain registered at Godaddy, let's call it domain "X"
I have 2 servers ...
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DNS redirect for domain to subdomain
What I am looking to do is to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to www1.example.com(subdomain of example.com) via DNS.
I am attempting to move from a local server (example.com) to a GoDaddy ...
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How can I link a subdomain in 1and1 with a OVH hosting?
I have bought a domain (example.com) in 1and1 where I have my main website, this website is hosted in 1and1.
On the other hand I have a VPS server hosted in OVH. And I have Odoo installed in that ...
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Map both wildcard subdomains and root TLD at registar with CNAME only - possible?
WordPress multisite newbie; trying to understand client domain mapping best practices.
Example: client owns domain foosite.com, registered at GoDaddy.
I need to get any/all incarnations to map to ...
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How to allow customers their own subdomain address to our web app?
We have a webapp and companies can customize the look and feel. Now we'd like them to be able to make the app part of their existing website by allowing them custom subdomains.
For example:
Our app ...
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My site is receiving DNS errors on Google Webmaster Tools, how can I solve this?
I have several irregular DNS errors on a subdomain of my site.
On all my other subdomains, I have no issues (they have the same configuration)
Just http://en-directo.frequence-radio.com suffers this ...
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IIS sub-domain reverse proxy based on host name
I have a virtual machine in azure running three self hosted applications (not hosted in IIS) on three different ports.
I can access them at the urls below:
my-server.cloudapp.azure.com:8080
my-...
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CNAME for subdomain to different host?
A friend asked me to help them with a new website on a subdomain that has a different host than the main domain.
The domain is registered with Host A, the name servers point to Host A, however the ...
