Godaddy Question

bagtagsell

I bought a domain with Godaddy. It is linked to my webpage and works very well. The url is www.mr-photo.com. How can I make it work so that a person can type in only mr-photo.com and still find my web page? And is it possible to only type mr-photo and it will also work?

Thanks.

Andy

Set an A-Record:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

http://www.smugmug.com/help/godaddy.mg
See the part of that page that says "don't want to type www"

DrDavid

I was going to post that, but, I've got to tell you, it slightly confused me, so I didn't.

Here's my question.

If I want both www.blahblah.com and blahblah.com to both go to XXXXXXX.smugmug.com, there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to work...

Here's my thought;

create two CNAME's for www. and @ that both point to www.smugmug.com (better than using an IP address as the IP can change).

Go to the control panel and enter the custom domain. BUT, if you enter blahblah.com then www.blahblah.com won't get caught too. And, vice versa. You guys need to have 'two' aliases available. Or, does it work some other way that I just don't realize?

David

bagtagsell

both
Just for confirmation it will allow both www.mr-photo.com and mr-photo.com

GJMPhoto

DrDavid wrote:

I was going to post that, but, I've got to tell you, it slightly confused me, so I didn't.

Here's my question.

If I want both www.blahblah.com and blahblah.com to both go to XXXXXXX.smugmug.com, there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to work...

Here's my thought;

create two CNAME's for www. and @ that both point to www.smugmug.com (better than using an IP address as the IP can change).

Go to the control panel and enter the custom domain. BUT, if you enter blahblah.com then www.blahblah.com won't get caught too. And, vice versa. You guys need to have 'two' aliases available. Or, does it work some other way that I just don't realize?

David

No...it's going to work the way you want it to... My domain is on godaddy as well...it can be reached as www.garymorgenphotography.com or garymorgenphotography.com and both point to www.garymorgenphotography.smugmug.com. (Of course, I also have set it up so I stay at www.garymorgenphotography.com). Follow the CName directions and set up Smugmug as per the directions...it works.

- Gary.

ivar

DrDavid wrote:

Here's my thought;

create two CNAME's for www. and @ that both point to www.smugmug.com.

Close

Set the CNAME for 'www' to go to www.smugmug.com and set an A-record for '@' to go to 63.81.134.23.

See http://www.smugmug.com/help/godaddy.mg and http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

GJMPhoto

ivar wrote:

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Set the CNAME for 'www' to go to www.smugmug.com and set an A-record for '@' to go to 63.81.134.23.

See http://www.smugmug.com/help/godaddy.mg and http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

That's right...I forgot I did that...setting the A-record is one of the steps! It does work.