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Savone

For some reason my registrar can not forward my domain to smugmug. In my search to find a solution I noticed that some folks have smugmug nameservers as their SOA. Can I also use the smugmug nameservers? I do have access to change my nameservers.

Will this work?

Andy

Savone wrote:

For some reason my registrar can not forward my domain to smugmug. In my search to find a solution I noticed that some folks have smugmug nameservers as their SOA. Can I also use the smugmug nameservers? I do have access to change my nameservers.

Will this work?

Nope. Who's your registrar, bring it on, I love a challenge. I'll get you sorted out, I promise.

Savone

Andy wrote:

Nope. Who's your registrar, bring it on, I love a challenge. I'll get you sorted out, I promise.

Registrar: NAMES4EVER, http://www.names4ever.com

Thanks,
They said they can forward my domain (by way of fowarding) but not the www. subdomain

Or they can CNAME the www. subdomain but not the domain itself.

Makes no sense to me

Andy

Savone wrote:

Registrar: NAMES4EVER, http://www.names4ever.com

Thanks,
They said they can forward my domain (by way of fowarding) but not the www. subdomain

Or they can CNAME the www. subdomain but not the domain itself.

Makes no sense to me

send me an email with username and pw to my attention at help@smugmug.com I will look asap.

Savone

Andy wrote:

send me an email with username and pw to my attention at help@smugmug.com I will look asap.

Which username? Smugmugs or names4ever?

Andy

Savone wrote:

Which username? Smugmugs or names4ever?

your domain host. I hav access to your smugmug account

Savone

Savone wrote:

Which username? Smugmugs or names4ever?

Sent both

Cammo

Savone wrote:

Which username? Smugmugs or names4ever?

Hey Andy, while on the subject. I have an Australian domain - www.cameronlaird.com.au - and a US domain - www.cameronlaird.com. The Aus one is with www.domaincentral.com.au and the US with www.r4l.com.

In my r4l account I set my web forwarding to camlaird.smugmug.com and turned cloaking on. It forwards fine but the cloaking doesn't seem to work at all. (It works fine however with my normal forwarding of www.cameronlaird.com to www.camlairdphoto.com). URL forwarding seems to be r4l's only option for web forwarding.

In my domaincentral account it also offers the same settings which I have enabled however also without luck.

Any thoughts...

Ohhhhh - I thought maybe I had to enter it in my control panel under domain so I tried that. However, didn't change anything and now I can't remove it... :uhoh

Cammo

Cammo

Cammo wrote:

Hey Andy, while on the subject. I have an Australian domain - www.cameronlaird.com.au - and a US domain - www.cameronlaird.com. The Aus one is with www.domaincentral.com.au and the US with www.r4l.com.

In my r4l account I set my web forwarding to camlaird.smugmug.com and turned cloaking on. It forwards fine but the cloaking doesn't seem to work at all. (It works fine however with my normal forwarding of www.cameronlaird.com to www.camlairdphoto.com). URL forwarding seems to be r4l's only option for web forwarding.

In my domaincentral account it also offers the same settings which I have enabled however also without luck.

Any thoughts...

Ohhhhh - I thought maybe I had to enter it in my control panel under domain so I tried that. However, didn't change anything and now I can't remove it... :uhoh

Cammo

Just made a few changes without luck. In domaincentral.com.au I set my CNAME alias photos.cameronlaird.com.au to be another name for www.smugmug.com. I then went into the control panel and set my custom hostname to photos.cameronlaird.com.au. No luck - any other ideas?

Thanks!

Andy

Cammo wrote:

Hey Andy, while on the subject. I have an Australian domain -

Presently, our custom host name fully supports only single-level TLDs (.com, .net, .org). You have a mult-level TLD (.com.au). You can make CNAME changes but the cookie system we use for gallery passwords and template change, and more, doesn't work yet with multi-level TLDs.

There are gotchas with forwarding, too:
http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/12/01/dont-get-framed-or-forwarded/

Savone

Andy wrote:

your domain host. I hav access to your smugmug account

Any luck Andy? I am pretty well versed at DNS and BIND. As of right now, I can not think of a way to CNAME a domain (without a subdomain).

Andy

Savone wrote:

Any luck Andy? I am pretty well versed at DNS and BIND. As of right now, I can not think of a way to CNAME a domain (without a subdomain).

Looks like they have no user way of defining a CNAME Alias on your domain manager site. Call them, it's a trivial task for them.

all the info is here:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

You want your domain to be CNAME Aliased to www.smugmug.com

so that when a person types in www.rifrazioni.com they will automatically be on your SmugMug site.

Savone

Andy wrote:

Looks like they have no user way of defining a CNAME Alias on your domain manager site. Call them, it's a trivial task for them.

all the info is here:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

You want your domain to be CNAME Aliased to www.smugmug.com

so that when a person types in www.rifrazioni.com they will automatically be on your SmugMug site.

I can do that no problem. But my problem exists when someone types http://rifrazioni.com without the www.

You can not have a CNAME record with the same name as the domain. In other words you can not create a CNAME record for rifrazioni.com.

So if someone type rifrazioni.com instead of www.rifrazioni.com it will not work. It will seem like the site does not exist.

I was wondering what kind of magic you were trying to pull!

Andy

Savone wrote:

I can do that no problem. But my problem exists when someone types http://rifrazioni.com without the www.

You can not have a CNAME record with the same name as the domain. In other words you can not create a CNAME record for rifrazioni.com.

So if someone type rifrazioni.com instead of www.rifrazioni.com it will not work. It will seem like the site does not exist.

I was wondering what kind of magic you were trying to pull!

Hi,

OK so for that, rifrazioni.com, you can have an A record pointing to our IP address. The downside to that is we can change our IP address, but if/when we do, you'll just have to have the A record changed.

Savone

Andy wrote:

Hi,

OK so for that, rifrazioni.com, you can have an A record pointing to our IP address. The downside to that is we can change our IP address, but if/when we do, you'll just have to have the A record changed.

Ok andy, thats put me right back where I started this!

I appreciate your anxiousness to help someone though, I appreciate it and I am sure everyone else does also.

Andy

Savone wrote:

Ok andy, thats put me right back where I started this!

I appreciate your anxiousness to help someone though, I appreciate it and I am sure everyone else does also.

Well, thanks - we try - I'm a bit puzzled though why your domain host can't set these up?

mbrady

Andy wrote:

Well, thanks - we try - I'm a bit puzzled though why your domain host can't set these up?

I've used Register.com and Joker.com and neither would allow setting up a CNAME without the www. part at the beginning. I had to do an A record to cover that too.

devbobo

mbrady wrote:

I've used Register.com and Joker.com and neither would allow setting up a CNAME without the www. part at the beginning. I had to do an A record to cover that too.

in that case, try cnaming www.nickname.smugmug.com

devbobo

Savone wrote:

I can do that no problem. But my problem exists when someone types http://rifrazioni.com without the www.

You can not have a CNAME record with the same name as the domain. In other words you can not create a CNAME record for rifrazioni.com.

So if someone type rifrazioni.com instead of www.rifrazioni.com it will not work. It will seem like the site does not exist.

I was wondering what kind of magic you were trying to pull!

The A record idea probably wouldn't work anyway, since smugmug only matches on the fully qualified name entered in the pro options.

So u couldn't have both rifrazioni.com and www.rifrazioni.com, well that's my understanding anyway

Savone

Ok UPDATE on this situation. I now have an A record for rifrazioni.com and a CNAME records for www.rifrazioni.com and both are resolving.

www.rifrazioni.com. CNAME IN 43200 www.smugmug.com.

rifrazioni.com. A IN 43200 63.81.134.23

The problem I have now is I can not log in, seems to be a cookie issue. Any help would be appreciated.
(I can log in if I use savone.smugmug.com and not my domain)

Andy

Savone wrote:

Ok UPDATE on this situation. I now have an A record for rifrazioni.com and a CNAME records for www.rifrazioni.com and both are resolving.

www.rifrazioni.com. CNAME IN 43200 www.smugmug.com.

rifrazioni.com. A IN 43200 63.81.134.23

The problem I have now is I can not log in, seems to be a cookie issue. Any help would be appreciated.
(I can log in if I use savone.smugmug.com and not my domain)

I'm glad it's all sorted!

Read the "gotcha" here on this help page re logging in with pro domains:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/acctlogin

Also, please, please: Have TWO Browsers. Like IE and FF. Or FF and Safari. And stay LOGGED IN on one, and ALWAYS logged out on the other. So you can see your site as visitors will see it.