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Should I use CNAME or Apache virtual host for www?
At this time I have a CNAME record with host "www" and pointing to example.com. But with this setup, when a user types www.example.com, he gets "redirected" (I know it's not an ...
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point CNAME record to A record
On my domain example.com, I want to have a generic subdomain test.example.com that point to the folder test, and various cname (es. bar.example.com, foo.example.com) that all points to test.example....
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Creating an A record and then a CNAME to point a subdomain to a different server gives an error message
I am trying to point a subdomain to a different server. The A Record changed without issue but the CNAME won't save in cPanel.
I get this error:
Error: sub.domain.com. already has a A record. You may ...
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Can I use a subdomain for is.edu? [closed]
is.edu requires a new domain name to set their subdomain as domain alias to it.
It means if I want to get marketing.is.edu, I need to register a domain name example.com and then they can CNAME the ...
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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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CNAME records pointing to SRV record [closed]
I have multiple services running that I'd like to access through one port. To make something like this work, I have a proxy server running that can redirect clients based on the url they connect with. ...
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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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How do I redirect a subdomain on Google domains to a URL with masking?
I bought a domain (on Google Domains) for a personal webpage and set it up to point to my github.io page
I also added a subdomain (say somefile.mydomain.example) and it now redirects to a Google ...
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Subdomain redirection to external subdomain
I need to create a redirection from my own subdomain to an external subdomain, like subdomain.domain.com -> subdomain.external.com. So if anyone try to enter in my subdomain, it redirects ...
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Will client sites on clientsite.mydomain.com affect SEO at www.mydomain.com?
Example:
Petterson Rekvisitta is a company I am building a website for. He has a domain: petterson.com, and will eventually move there.
During development I set up his site on petterson.mydomain.com ...
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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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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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Firebase Custom Domain - add admin subdomain?
I'm hosting my website on Firebase and I got the domain from GoDaddy.
I used custom domain, and everything works great.
This is the way I redirect to my website on Firebase:
I need to create an admin ...
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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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CNAME record at AWS Route 53 DNS is landing on defaultwebpage.cgi
I have been trying to get this to work for hours. I have a WordPress multisite hosted on a shared server - but with a dedicated IP address for my WP installation, and my client sites are set up as ...
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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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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 ...
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Can I stop Google and other search engines indexing my subdomain, when subdomain is 3rd party owned? [duplicate]
I've just looked up my website in Google, to see if the sitemap had changed to reflect some new content and pages, and I have a bit of a problem. I use a third-party hosted toolset, which is linked ...
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Same IP for domain and subdomain
My web content is hosted by a different company than my DNS records/domains.
Let's call the first content host and the second domain host.
The content hoster uses Plesk (v12 on CentOS 7).
I also got a ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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....
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Tumblr custom subdomain stoped working
I have added my custom .tk subdomain to Tumblr.
My DNS setup for this domain looks like this:
A - mydomain.tk - xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ;
MX - mydomain.tk - xxxxxx.pamx1.hotmail.com ;
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SEO value of external root domains that use CNAME to point back to original domain
I have DOMAIN A.
A partner on DOMAIN B creates subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com.
The subdomain is a CNAME record that masks beer.DOMAIN-A.com.
So when a user visits subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com, they see content ...
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Using mixed A-Type and CNAME
A (IPv4 Adresszeiger)
doc.domain.de. IN A 301 to domain.atlassian.net
jira.domain.de. IN A 23.23.xx.xx
domain.de. IN A 301 to www.domain.de
work.domain.de. IN A ...
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com
I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I ...
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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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Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues
I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old ...
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CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem
I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution.
I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want sub.domain-...
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Root Domain Redirects Incorrectly To Https instead of to WWW
Why do visits to my website work without "www", but not to specific pages on it?
I recently moved my website to a new webhost, RedHat's OpenShift (a PAAS). It requires using Cname records to setup ...
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Do I need a subdomain or CNAME?
I have a domain with Godaddy (mysite.com) which is pointing to my AWS EC2 box.
Now I need a launchpad link on my website so that if the user clicks on it it would point to launch.mysite.com
This ...
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DNS and Wildcard CNAME
Whenever I attempt to make a CNAME record for my domain I get two errors:
You can't mix CNAME/MX records together using the same hostname.
Domain root's cannot be CNAME's, however you can web-...
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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to my Google Sites site.
I want to add another, pointing mike.mydomain.com to https://sites.google.com/...
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mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING
I'm trying to make http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ transparently rewrite to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING.
The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why.
ServerName www.example....
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