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How to protect the Nginx servers from AWS Abuse Report?
I have 2 Nginx servers, each of which serves around 30k domains. For each of the domains, we have SSL certificate present on that server, generated using Let's Encrypt. I map each of the domain there ...
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pointing a domain birdcope.com of DomainAcccount to a sub Folder on HostingAccount in namescheap
I have two namescheap accounts - hostingAccount and domainAccount.
My domain birdcope.com is registered on DomainAccount.
I want to point this domain to hostingAccount's sub folder.
there is already a ...
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Is there a commonly used way of identifying "institutional" domain names?
Not sure which SE site is exactly the best for this so apologies if this is out of place here.
I have a database that I add emails to, and I want to join users that I suspect to be in the same ...
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Adding a CNAME record could affect to the mail service?
I´ve been searching about this and I have found different answer for it. So I would like to explain the context. I don´t understand much about DNS records, so maybe one of you could help me.
Currently....
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Deleted subdomain still visible through Subdomain Finder Tools
I have a couple of subdomains that have been deleted(more than a year ago). I was curious if the deleted domain can be tracked.
So, I used a subdomain finder tool from https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl ...
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Adding new DNS record to Netlify in order to make my domain point a new site
I have a new site: newsite.com (my new site has no subdomain such as www or ftp), so I wrote "@" to Name section when I created my DNS record.
I had an old site that I wanted to redo. I registered a ...
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Is it possible to transfer an old domain to a new subdomain?
Is it possible to move an old domain to a new subdomain permanently without losing search engine rankings? For example, going from https://www.example.com/ to https://blog.newexample.com/?
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Trying to setup www subdomain results in 'This site can't be reached' or 400 Bad Request Error
Goal
To get www.example.com to point to my web application.
Problem
I've been following several tutorials to try and get www.example.com to point to my website. I can only get example.com and https://...
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View subdomain on cpanel without domain
I've a cPanel/WHM with some clients.
On cPanel, with an domain you just need create subdomain (mySub.myDomain.example) and go on that for view website.
But, how I can do that for clients without ...
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What's the difference between Domain NameServers and Domain Hosts?
In cosmotown I have these 2 options:
This is how the screen for the first option looks like:
And the second option:
I am a newbie and I don't have much experience with domains and DNS and I couldn'...
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Temporary domain for new version of a website
I'm redesigning a website. Many parts of the old (current) website are still useable, but some other critical parts (say product page & purchase flow) are broken and the new, redesigned website ...
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About domain, subdomain and different hosting
I'm new to WebDev. I don't know much about domains or subdomains. I know I can create subdomains if I buy my own domain but I want to know if I can use subdomains with different hosting.
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Why do browsers know to lookup the `www` record if DNS query for @ gets NXDOMAIN?
Description
If I dig for businessbrief.xyz, I get no results, but the subdomain www returns an address. Entering businessbrief.xyz into any browser's address bar goes to a valid web address.
Data
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Point a domain (example.com) to subdomain (example.xyz.com) with Route53
I'm looking to point my root-level domain; example.com to a subdomain sub.xyz.example. The goal is that users visiting example.com should have all content loaded from sub.xyz.example; without any ...
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Can't point subdomain to my web host
I am trying to connect a staging website to a subdomain. My registrar is namecheap and I have followed their guide on registering a subdomain.
Here's my CNAME Record at namecheap with corresponding ...
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How can the domain portion of an email address have three dots? [closed]
Please check this email address:
[email protected]
I expected that the domain name (a.b.c.d) would have only one dot or only two dots, but it has three dots.
How can this be explained?
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How can I make a URL on one domain "front" content from another domain?
Let's say I have name.example.com and example.com set up using different CMS's
I would like name.example.com/supercool-landing-page to resolve as (www.)example.com
In other words, when you visit (www.)...
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Do subdomains of my domain, pointed to third-party sites, affect my main domain SEO?
I own a domain sailed.io, which has a main landing page and a few sub-pages for docs.
The service that it provides includes a random subdomain under .sailed.io, pointed to a user's own server IP ...
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How to point a domain name to a subfolder
I have a working website:
https://www.example.com
It is a bit old, and now I want to make a new website. I don't want to make it on localhost but directly on the web.
I was thinking to make the ...
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Making WWW. work for subdomain with no hosting?
We have a domain, example.com for instance. In our DNS settings for this domain, we've created a forward for give.example.com subdomain to redirect to another website which works great. (It's ...
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Display custom domain in search results rather than wordpress.com subdomain
How to show a custom domain URL instead of domain's URL assigned by wordpress.com in the Google search results?
For example, if I have free subdomain like http://example.wordpress.com, how can I show ...
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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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Main domain hosted on Google servers and registered with Google domains, but I want a subdomain ONLY to point to Netlify
Been trying to this for a few days after countless tutorials and I can’t seem to figure it out.
The desired outcome is this:
www.example.com is my main react app hosted on Google Cloud Servers.
blog....
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I would like to set up a subdomain for my website that redirects to my discord invite link
Is there a way to Set a subdomain on my website to redirect to my discord invite? Is it possible and is it allowed?
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Backlink from subdomain [duplicate]
I wanted to know how the traffic is calculated if I get a backlink from a subdomain page. For example, a website corriere.it has over 20M organic traffic, but roma.corriere.it has 500K
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How do I use Google Domain to connect two different web services using a subdomain?
I have an Adobe Portfolio site and use a Google Domain for it. Meaning my Adobe Portfolio's URL is example.com. I just got a website through Siteground and want to use my Google Domain for that as ...
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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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SEO Inquiry; Domain Name selection
Can any one help me by clarifying the differences between DOMAIN NAME formats according to Google search engines and SEO perspective:
example.com
ex-ample.com
example-eg.com
egypt.example.com
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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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Can I mirror a website and change the URL paths?
Is it possible to mirror a website under a different domain with different subpage urls?
For example:
domain-a.example/mainpage
becomes
domain-b.example/domain-a-mainpage
In this scenario domain b ...
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If a domain is zero-rated, are the subdomains also zero-rated?
If example.com is zero-rated, does this include subdomains of the example.com domain, e.g. would books.example.com also be zero-rated or is zero-rating applied to the domain itself only?
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How to add a second hosted domain in place of a currently hosted subdomain on Bluehost?
I have two domains, dom0.example and dom1.example. The nameservers of dom0.example are set to my webhosting on Bluehost.
Now I have a second website under sub.dom0.example. I want dom1.example to ...
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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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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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Can I redirect a domain with redirecting its subdomain?
I would like to redirect domain A to domain B, but I have a subdomain under domain A. If I redirect it, is the subdomain going to be redirected to domain B as well?
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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. [email protected]). I ...
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Aesthetic URL problem: Website from server02 should look like its on a subdirectory of the main site from server01
www.example.com is on server01 with IP address 192.0.2.123
abc.example.com is on server02 with IP address 192.0.2.21
I actually do not want the subdomain abc. Ideally I want it at www.example.com/...
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Transfer current Google Search Console property with data to new one
I have a Google Search Console account right now and submitted this property through the "URL prefix" method. Now I am going to submit it again through the "Domain" method to include the subdomain ...
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SEO consequences of CPanel adding separate domain as subdomain?
I've purchased a shared hosting. It has domain1.example as the main domain. Whenever I add another domain to this hosting say domain2.example. The CPanel system does create the record for domain2....
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Pros and cons of using Individual domains vs Subdomains? [duplicate]
I'm working on the renewal of a large website. In the past, several brands were added to the website. You can access these brand via the menu.
Each brand has its own subdirectory as follows:
www....
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SEO best practices for domains in multiple languages [duplicate]
I have a domain https://www.understandmydreams.com (online dream interpreter) and I wish to expand the service to more languages.
The content will be different in each language, not just simple ...
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Move a site from a subdomain of another domain when we won't be able to obtain a redirect
Good morning,
I'd appreciate if you guys could help me with a situation I have at the moment with the company I work in.
We're an online newspaper focused in Technology articles, so have our own ...
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How to host sub domain on a different server?
Web hosting scenario of landing page (foobar.com) built in Jekyll and hosted on Cloudcanyon. Need a sub domain (chat.foobar.com) for a chatroom to go to a different server like Heroku to run the ...
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Temporary domains when when moving applications to new server
I'm currently in the process of moving 20 .Net applications from a dedicated Windows 2008 server to a new 2016 server. How can I ensure the sites are working correctly on a temp domain before I ...
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Can you use a subdomain pointed to an IP for SSH
I have a website, and I'd like to use it for SSH-ing. I hate having to remember my computer's IP address, so I was hoping to do something like:
ssh [email protected] -p 1234
or
ssh uname@example....
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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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Prevent Duplicate Google Indexing When Moving From www to non-www (Search Console)
I want to move my website away from using the www subdomain. I am using Squarespace which will provide automatic 301 redirects for all pages on the www subdomain to the non-www. I have a sitemap ...
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Can you use a custom subdomain with G Suite if it doesn't have anything hosted there?
I purchased a domain from Namecheap, say myname.example. I'm not hosting anything with this domain or or any of its subdomains. I want to create a G Suite account with the subdomain subdomain.myname....
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Is it OK for SEO to redirect a subdomain to its corresponding add-on domain after Google indexed the subdomain rather than the add-on domain?
I put in place a 301 redirection for the add-on domain subdomain.domain.example to subdomain.example, because Google was sometimes indexing subdomain.domain.example.
Is this 301 redirection 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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