Help pointing my domain name to smugmug

jonnypb

Hi,

Just signed up for the free pro trial and i'm going to take out the subscription when it ends.

I have my own domain name www.xxxx.co.uk and I would like to point this to my smugmug site - www.xxxx.smugmug.com

Firstly I'm a newbie to all this DNS/website stuff!

I use 123-reg.co.uk to manage my domain name and I've done the following to set up the DNS but not sure if it's correct

ns1.smugmug.com A 63.81.134.20
ns2.smugmug.com A 63.81.134.21
www.xxxx.smugmug.com CNAME www.xxxx.co.uk

Do I then need to do something else in smugmug or is the above completely wrong?

I presume when you're in a pro 14 day trail you can use your own domain name?

Thanks for your help in advance

Andy

Hi, and welcome

NO nameserver changes are needed.

Go to your domain host, and set up a CNAME Alias. It would be for

www.yourdomain.com to www.smugmug.com

then, you put www.yourdomain.com in your domain field in your SmugMug control panel.

More, here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

Holler to our help desk if we can assist further, okay? http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal

jonnypb

Andy wrote:

Hi, and welcome

NO nameserver changes are needed.

Go to your domain host, and set up a CNAME Alias. It would be for

www.yourdomain.com to www.smugmug.com

then, you put www.yourdomain.com in your domain field in your SmugMug control panel.

More, here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

Holler to our help desk if we can assist further, okay? http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal

many thanks for the quick reply

i will remove the A record entries and just enter the CNAME

certainly smugmug certainly seems like a great product and even better support!

Andy

jonnypb wrote:

many thanks for the quick reply

i will remove the A record entries and just enter the CNAME

certainly smugmug certainly seems like a great product and even better support!

You can leave the A-record if you like - as long as it's pointing to our IP, that's fine.

But be aware our IP address could change, and then you'll need to update the A-record.

jonnypb

Andy wrote:

You can leave the A-record if you like - as long as it's pointing to our IP, that's fine.

But be aware our IP address could change, and then you'll need to update the A-record.

hmmmmm I did have an A record in to start but that didn't work. It had been in for 36 hours so I would have expected DNS to have replicated in that time. I've entered the CNAME so I'll see how that goes

I take it as I'm still only in the 14 day pro trial that I can still point my domain name to smugmug and that it works with .co.uk addresses?

Cheers

Andy

jonnypb wrote:

I take it as I'm still only in the 14 day pro trial that I can still point my domain name to smugmug and that it works with .co.uk addresses?

Cheers