Custom Hostname, Geography, Breadcrumb, et.al. ...

geanmichaels

After 2 years, finally getting to work on this site...:ivar Yeah Smuggie!

Custom Hostname: Seems to be working thusly:
www.ourspecialnet.com registered at LunarPages
CNAME pointed to www.smugmug.com.

The domain is left parked per support's instructions.

http://ourspecialnet.com is mod_rewrite (no 'www')
on Lunarpages in /public_html/htaccess per their instructions.

[FONT=Courier New]RewriteEngine On 
[FONT=Courier New]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ourspecialnet.com$ [NC] [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [/FONT][URL="http://www.ourspecialnet.com/$1"][FONT=Courier New]http://www.ourspecialnet.com/$1[/FONT][/URL][FONT=Courier New] [R=301,L][/FONT] [/FONT]

All seems in order, everything's going where it should, it appears
However:
How come, when I upload images, the addresses go back to "nickname.smugmug.com" . I think that has happened under a couple of other weird circumstances....

How come, I get erratic logins, or have to refresh after login, going in under the 'pointed' URL , ... (Now, that one's tricky... and hard to explain!) Does NOT seem to be related to IE cacheing, or FF cache...
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Geography: I've been all through these forums, probably have missed this, but...
Doggone it, I've edited, re-edited, radio-buttoned, enabled, disabled, all sorts of stuff related to the dadgum "map this" button, "Around the World", "Google Keys", "Geography" or whatever various incarnation the feature wants. Bought accessories to go with new camera, have EXIF editing for older images we're gonna redo, and upload, and never know if it'll read it and display it or not. Doesn't seem to matter.

Anyway, this feature seems to work when, where, and whynot whenever it has a whim.
Have both Google Keys: for "pointed hostname", and "nickname.smuggie"...

Horse has been beat, I know.... what have we so far, in summary?

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Breadcrumb:
Found the javacode at http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=857771&postcount=14 to replace "my name" with "something" else in the breadcrumb. Did it. It works.
Cool.:barb
Is there a way to get rid of the original "My Name" coming in from the main 'index page" to the category...? Breadcrumb once at an open gallery seems to be A1! ...

:cavig Now I'm gonna take a break while this is turned over to you Smuggie Higher Powers!

Mike
http://www.ourspecialnet.com
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docwalker

gean, you need to change that CNAME to point at domains.smugmug.com

That is a recent change to our instructions. I think I got all of the pages with the old instructions but I am hunting them down now.

For the rewrite, I am not sure why they would be doing that. You should only need a www CNAME and an @ A record. The A record should be pointed at our IP address of 208.79.45.23

For maintaining your site, you should always login using the .smugmug.com version. That prevents duplicate cookies from mucking things up.

geanmichaels

docwalker wrote:

gean, you need to change that CNAME to point at domains.smugmug.com

That is a recent change to our instructions. I think I got all of the pages with the old instructions but I am hunting them down now.

For the rewrite, I am not sure why they would be doing that. You should only need a www CNAME and an @ A record. The A record should be pointed at our IP address of 208.79.45.23

For maintaining your site, you should always login using the .smugmug.com version. That prevents duplicate cookies from mucking things up.

Gotcha... I looked at so many 'hints' about the hostname, I don't remember exactly where the 'point to' smugmug.com came from. I think it was on the wiki. Certainly inside several posts. I noted the 'domains.smugmug...' in the instructions... but was thoroughly confused by the time I got back to that.

Re: AName: Support told me the rewrite was preferable to ANAME... they said they 'couldn't do an aname? or something.' The rewrite apparently points the 'non www' to 'www' which points to Smuggie.

I'll have that cname updated today.

Thanks, Doc...

Mike

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docwalker

You can try and use the rewrite, but the A record is the smarter route. Give the rewrite a shot and if it does not work switch to the A record.

The A record resides on the DNS server with the CNAME. A rewrite sounds like something that sites on a webserver. That is my favorite way of pointing things.

xris

Heads-up

docwalker wrote:

...I think I got all of the pages with the old instructions but I am hunting them down now....

Re: the Wiki at:
http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/Troubleshooting+your+CNAME+setup
The footer under the last example frame still reads:
"The correct setting for the CNAME is www.smugmug.com. If anything else appears there, your domain settings are incorrect."

docwalker

5 points for you. Thanks for the catch. I thought I had caught them all.

jwalkeroh

Breadcrumb:
Found the javacode at http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=857771&postcount=14 to replace "my name" with "something" else in the breadcrumb. Did it. It works.
Cool.
Is there a way to get rid of the original "My Name" coming in from the main 'index page" to the category...? Breadcrumb once at an open gallery seems to be A1! ...

Check out this post. I think it addresses the breadcrumbs on categories pages issue:
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=861103&postcount=22