Using Muse and Smugmug together

lluisballbe

Hi,

Just bought the pro license for my smugmug site a few weeks ago and I'm finishing the site.


Since I'm going to have a Photography part and a Business (personal site) part together but with separate layouts and content, I have been designing in Muse most of the Business part.

I'm about to buy the Godaddy domain and hosting, and was wondering how could I integrate both systems together.

The main thing is that on the photography part I want to fully use the Smugmug tools, whereas in the Business part it does not suit my needs and want to make use of the designs I made in Muse.

How do I integrate them?

To summarize it, it just means that my domain will be www.lluisballbe.com but want www.lluisballbe.com/Photography (and subpages) to be smugmug powered and www.lluisballbe.com/Business (and subpages) powered by Muse designs.


Any tips??? Thanks :clap:clap:clap:barb:barb:barb

denisegoldberg

lluisballbe wrote: »

To summarize it, it just means that my domain will be www.lluisballbe.com but want www.lluisballbe.com/Photography (and subpages) to be smugmug powered and www.lluisballbe.com/Business (and subpages) powered by Muse designs.

As far as I know your smugmug site url will need to be http://photography.lluisballbe.com; http://www.lluisballbe.com/Photography will not work.

--- Denise

Ferguson

You can do photos.lluisballbe.com, adding it on the front allows you to control access via DNS. Adding it after the first slash means it needs to be baked into the web server (i.e. smugmug) and as Denis says I do not think Smugmug can do that.

Actually I think it will technically be www.photos.lluisballbe.com as I think smugmug insists on the www in front of whatever you use for your domain portion, my experience is even if I set it up to work without the www they edit it in to links.

That's if you want to shift to the full features of smugmug from your site. It's also possible to link to photos directly, or to put iFrames in and have Smugmug (at whatever nickname you want) appear in them, but this can get a lot more messy especially as you change between browsers, or mobile, etc. Just having Smugmug do the work at a separate domain name (or subdomain) is much more straightforward.

Hikin' Mike

You can NOT use Smugmug in a directory (www.lluisballbe.com/Photography) like you have now. It must be as a subdomain, like photography.lluisbalbe.com. That's how my site is set up.

denisegoldberg

Ferguson wrote: »

Actually I think it will technically be www.photos.lluisballbe.com as I think smugmug insists on the www in front of whatever you use for your domain portion, my experience is even if I set it up to work without the www they edit it in to links.

The www isn't needed.

I'd be curious to see where you are seeing it on your site.

--- Denise

Ferguson

denisegoldberg wrote: »

The www isn't needed.

I'd be curious to see where you are seeing it on your site.

OK, I went back and looked at this, and I think I understand. Whether you need it in a subdomain or not may depend on what you use the subdomain for, and if it is ONLY a CNAME.

Look at reply #6 here

That was when I found that despite trying to omit the www, that Smugmug was adding it back in.

The issue is that the name portion (e.g. http://aaa.bbb.ccc/folder/gallery/whatever ) needs to map to a CNAME, and not to an A record.

In more "classic" web access, if you wanted a web site that matched your domain name, you just put an "A" record on the name portion (e.g. smugmug.com) and gave it the same IP as the www portion. And you can do that with smugmug and you end up there. But Smugmug uses a CNAME to manage the custom domains, and that in turn interacts in some fashion with their CDN and load balancing. So Smugmug doesn't want to serve up to just an "A" record.

So (unless they have changed) if your domain is just two pieces (bbb.ccc above) they are going to put something on the front, I think based on the account settings.

But I assume (but have not tested because I don't want to screw up my site) that if you have a subdomain/host type name (aaa.bbb.ccc) and the aaa portion is a CNAME that Smugmug likes, they will not modify it. And indeed I found at least one customer site that does that and it is not getting a www added in front as best I can tell.

So... unless they changed something, smugmug does modify your address at times to add the www, but not always, based on the CNAME aspect.

Maybe someone from Smugmug can clean up my description and make it a bit more rigorous?

mrneutron

When you use a custom domain with your SmugMug account, we ask you to create a Cname (alias) www and point it to domains.smugmug.com
Then forward yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com That aliases your custom domain to domains.smugmu.com and the traffic is then sent to your site based on
your custom domain in your account settings. In that case, the www is required for the alias.

When you use a subdomain (photos.yourdomain.com) you set the Cname, photos, to domains.smugmug.com. Then the www is not needed.