Custom Domain URL consistency thru site

[Deleted User]

Greetings,

I have searched for some answers to this question - I set up custom domains, so now:

http://carterstuff.smugmug.com now goes to :

http://photos.carterstuff.com thanks to my CNAME change. I've done some javascript enhancements to my site and it is working as expected, but I've noticed thanks to some work related firewall filtering, that various portions of my site breadcrumb/navbar clickpoints may revert to XXX.smugmug.com rather than http://photos.carterstuff.net

The incostency is actually allowing me access from work as the smugmug domain isn't filtered, but my custom one is. I am looking for some informtion on why the site doesn't alias all http requests thru my custom URL. A savy interent user would easily see the smugmug relationship, and although I am not totally against that, I am paying a pro level price and went through the effort to CNAME a subdomain I have purchased, so I would like the ability to push that consistency all the way through.

Am I missing something on how to make this uniform?

Thanks in advance.

Here is an example:

http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/galleries

clicking on a category will link to:

http://photos.carterstuff.net/Business for example. My gallery link, which I set via the gallery page hack (nav bar points to /galleries ) is http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/galleries

Do I have to specify all FQDN links in all my javascript and will that impact any tracking at all?

jfriend

I really don't understand what you're asking about. If a user enters your site on http://photos.carterstuff.net they will stay on that domain unless you have added customizations that point to http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/. For example, I notice that clicking on your banner takes you to http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/. That's because you put the href in that way. You put the .smugmug.com domain in your own HTML. You should change that link to be domain-relative and just point to "/" so it will stay on whatever domain the user enters on.

Besides that, I don't see where one gets taken to the wrong domain. If you can describe what click moves one to the http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/ domain, then we can diagnose why.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for responding so fast - your javascript is responsible for my customizations thanks!

i guess my issue is in the custom navbar stuff. when i direct a url to /galleries i get the smugmug link. as in the first, if i put in the complete url, i get photos.carterstuff.net

I'll have to look around and see if there are other situations. I've noticed many of the breadcrumbs when logged in as admin redirect to smugmug.com, which i guess is where they should go. so my site is completely mirrored to the smugmug.com address and can be accessed as such, even with custom url?

jfriend

bagginz wrote: »

Thanks for responding so fast - your javascript is responsible for my customizations thanks!

i guess my issue is in the custom navbar stuff. when i direct a url to /galleries i get the smugmug link. as in the first, if i put in the complete url, i get photos.carterstuff.net

I'll have to look around and see if there are other situations. I've noticed many of the breadcrumbs when logged in as admin redirect to smugmug.com, which i guess is where they should go. so my site is completely mirrored to the smugmug.com address and can be accessed as such, even with custom url?

When I go to http://photos.carterstuff.net/ and click on the "GALLERY" link in your navbar, it takes me to http://photos.carterstuff.net/galleries. I'm not seeing anything go to http://carterstuff.smugmug.com/ myself. You should evaluate your site when logged out because that's how visitors see it. If you're seeing issues with the custom domain only when logged in, it may be because you aren't properly logged in on the custom domain. I don't use a custom domain so don't really know the details of those issues, but I've seen many have issues with that.

When you are logged out, if you find any places where your site takes you to the smugmug.com domain, point them out here and we'll investigate. I don't see any now (since you fixed the one I pointed out previously).

[Deleted User]

thanks for the sanity check - i bet it has something to do with being logged in. I'll fire up another setup tonight from home and see how the links look.

thanks for you help (and your code.) I am extremely satisfied at the moment. I was running my own gallery2 (then gallery2) site and was running out of time to keep it all together. smugmug and the flexibility should save me more time to take more photos.

mike.