cName to SmugMug and linking to hosting site

bspeaks

I use GoDaddy with the cName set to forward my domain to SmugMug. I plan on creating journal style galleries that contain html with href links to document files contained on my GoDaddy site. Is it possible to point to the GoDaddy host with a url that is like this : www.speaksimages.com/documents/mydoc.pdf

Or will the cName preclude this type of reference and require me to setup another domain that would contain the document files?

Thank you,
Bill Speaks
www.speaksimages.com

jfriend

bspeaks wrote:

I use GoDaddy with the cName set to forward my domain to SmugMug. I plan on creating journal style galleries that contain html with href links to document files contained on my GoDaddy site. Is it possible to point to the GoDaddy host with a url that is like this : www.speaksimages.com/documents/mydoc.pdf

Or will the cName preclude this type of reference and require me to setup another domain that would contain the document files?

Thank you,
Bill Speaks
www.speaksimages.com

You can't do it the way you proposed. "www.speaksimages.com" (regardless of what comes after it) must resolve to a specific IP address (e.g. a specific server or server cluster) - either at Smugmug or at GoDaddy, but only one of them - that's how DNS works.

Assuming GoDaddy supports multiple sub-domains, you could make www.speaksimages.com be your Smugmug galleries and docs.speaksimages.com be your documents at GoDaddy. That way, http://docs.speaksimages.com/documents/mdocs.pdf could work at GoDaddy while http://www.speaksimages.com was your images at Smugmug. I know GoDaddy supports defining sub-domains, but I don't know if they support splitting some to Smugmug and some to GoDaddy.

bspeaks

I setup a subdomain and from the initial test it appears to work when the href is coming from Smugmug.

Thank you for your input!

Bill

www.speaksimages.com