Re-directing Webpage???

MyView

I am trying to get my www.marsolekphotos.smugmug.com to change to www.photosbylissa.com and stay that. If you type in www.photosbylissa.com it goes to my marsolekphotos.smugmug.com site, but I really want it to still say photosbylissa.com

I put this in my javascript

function redirectPath() {
re = /(marsolekphotos.smugmug.com)/;
tmp = window.location.href;
if (re.test(tmp)) {
tmp = tmp.replace(re, 'www.photosbylissa.com');
window.location.href = tmp;
}
}
redirectPath();

And it doesn't work I get
"The webpage cannot be found" error

Help please!

Andy

Use our CNAME feature please

http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

holler if you have any questions.

MyView

Andy - so you want it to say .smugmug.com correct. if this is true, can I change the name from marsolekphotos.smugmug to photosbylissa.smugmug? To get even more confusing, I was thinking of buying an basic account to host my family photos and get them off my professional one. I would like to use marsolekphotos.smugmug.com for that and photosbylissa.smugmug.com for my professional. Would this be possible??? Picky Picky Picky. lol

scwalter

MyView wrote:

Andy - so you want it to say .smugmug.com correct. if this is true, can I change the name from marsolekphotos.smugmug to photosbylissa.smugmug? To get even more confusing, I was thinking of buying an basic account to host my family photos and get them off my professional one. I would like to use marsolekphotos.smugmug.com for that and photosbylissa.smugmug.com for my professional. Would this be possible??? Picky Picky Picky. lol

No, you can still use your custom domain name, but it sounds like you don't have that setup correctly. Based on the nslookup results, it looks like you are forwarding www.photosbylissa.com to your smugmug page, which is not correct. Follow the instructions on the page andy linked to above to do it properly with CNAME.

MyView

Oh, ok, I thought I had done it right, guess I didn't. Thanks so much. I bought my domain name from yahoo. I'm not sure where the problem is, but I will try to figure it out. Thanks.

MyView

Ok, I have it set to that in my control panel, but I got this message when I tried to confirm it.

Warning: That hostname doesn't resolve to SmugMug. This may cause problems with your custom hostname setting. See our help section on custom hostnames.

Any suggestions???

I bought the host name thru yahoo, is my problem there?

This is so over my head.

scwalter

MyView wrote:

Ok, I have it set to that in my control panel, but I got this message when I tried to confirm it.

Warning: That hostname doesn't resolve to SmugMug. This may cause problems with your custom hostname setting. See our help section on custom hostnames.

Any suggestions???

I bought the host name thru yahoo, is my problem there?

This is so over my head.

You might get that error if the DNS hasn't updated. Here are the instructions for setting up a CNAME at Yahoo.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/yahoo.mg

Follow these instructions carefully. I just did this on my host, godaddy, and I screwed it up the first time and had to go back and re-read the instructions. Once your CNAME is setup correctly, the smugmug error will go away and when you go to www.photosbylissa.com, your page will appear and the hostname will stay as-is.

-Scott

MyView

Scott - thanks. I went into my accout which was setup forwarding the link. I just checked and got this message.

This site is under construction.

I'm hoping that it just takes time for it all to work.

Crossing my fingers.

scwalter

MyView wrote:

Scott - thanks. I went into my accout which was setup forwarding the link. I just checked and got this message.

This site is under construction.

I'm hoping that it just takes time for it all to work.

Crossing my fingers.

Looks like you got it fixed. I see your site fine.

One other bit of cleanup you might want to do is change the links in your navbar. Currently, they point back to your smugmug site. You can leave out all of the part of the URL from the http to the .com

In other words, change all your links that look like this:

http://marsolekphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/2908910/

to this:

/gallery/2908910/

also, you need to have www in your address and your current "home" link of your navbar does not have that. Alternately, you can follow the advice above and just put "/" for the home link.

-Scott

Andy

MyView wrote:

Scott - thanks. I went into my accout which was setup forwarding the link. I just checked and got this message.

This site is under construction.

I'm hoping that it just takes time for it all to work.

Crossing my fingers.

The quick way is to email us at the help desk with your Yahoo! login and pwd, and we'll do it for you - we do that all the time as an extra service for our Pros
http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal

MyView

You guys Rock Andy, no doubt about it. I will remember that you guys do that. I am passing the word on to everyone I know how absolutely thrilled I am with your services and how fantastic everyone has been here helping me get my site customized. Smugmug is definitely the place to be and here on dgrin!!!!

Thanks so much everyone, I got it to work!