moving smugmug to a subdomain.

namebrandon

I love smugmug, but it's just not being as flexible as far as customization as I'd like for a main website.. I'm going to create a new site from my root domain, but I'd still like to keep the smugmug site for personal galleries and proofing for clients.

I know how to remove the DNS records so that my root domain will be fully hosted at my web host, but I wanted to clarify the process for redirecting a sub-domain back to smugmug..

This is how I'm thinking it works, please let me know if I'm missing something..

1. remove existing A record for root domain

2. Create the clients.brandonharrisphotography.com subdomain on my host, and create a C NAME record for the subdomain pointing to domains.smugmug.com

3. edit the smugmug domain option via control panel and make it clients.brandonharrisphotography.com.

4. live happily ever after.. (except for all of my previous links to images which I imagine are now broken..)

sound about right?

rnrjosh

Yep, sounds about right, with one addition. Add step 1A - remove existing www CNAME record for your current domain name. You'll need to remove both the A record for the root domain and the www CNAME record. Those should be the only two records that currently direct your domain to your SmugMug site. You're all good on the other steps, though! You are correct, if you do change the custom domain name, this would basically function to break any current links that are out there, as that domain wouldn't point to SmugMug any longer.

namebrandon

rnrjosh wrote: »

Yep, sounds about right, with one addition. Add step 1A - remove existing www CNAME record for your current domain name. You'll need to remove both the A record for the root domain and the www CNAME record. Those should be the only two records that currently direct your domain to your SmugMug site. You're all good on the other steps, though! You are correct, if you do change the custom domain name, this would basically function to break any current links that are out there, as that domain wouldn't point to SmugMug any longer.

Good point on the root domain CNAME record.. thanks! This will work out much better.. all of the great gallery / ordering features of smugmug, with complete design / code freedom at the root site level.. not sure why I didn't think of this sooner..

Thanks Josh!