aName cName redirect help needed.

erikGrammer

Hey all,
This is my first post and I've found this forum to be incredibly helpful so thanks in advance! I have my own domain name and have the cname record set up for www.erikgrammer.com which points to my smugmug account. I have another subdomain <downloads> set up on godaddy "downloads" so that I can post different kinds of files for user download at downloads.erikgrammer.com. If I set up an A record for erikgrammer.com such that users will not need to enter "www"<www> will it not than kill access to my files on godaddy through the downloads domain? And, if so, is it possible to write some sort of redirect so that the www is prepended to urls entered with no subdomain? Is prepended a word? These are the questions currently preventing me from taking photographs! Any assistance is greatly appreciated and thanks again to all the helpful posters who got me this far!

(I did a number of different searches in the forums but did not see anything that addressed this specific issue. If there is an easy set of search terms that brings up a post that already answered this question please let me know so I can learn to search better).

Thanks,
-erik</www></downloads>

BeachBill

erikGrammer wrote:

I have my own domain name and have the cname record set up for www.erikgrammer.com which points to my smugmug account. I have another subdomain <downloads> set up on godaddy "downloads" so that I can post different kinds of files for user download at downloads.erikgrammer.com. If I set up an A record for erikgrammer.com such that users will not need to enter "www"<www> will it not than kill access to my files on godaddy through the downloads domain?

No. "</www></downloads>downloads.erikgrammer.com" and "erikgrammer.com" are completely separate, unique hostnames.
<downloads><www>
</www></downloads>

erikGrammer wrote:

<downloads><www>And, if so, is it possible to write some sort of redirect so that the www is prepended to urls entered with no subdomain?</www></downloads>

The following code, placed in the javascript section of your site customization will automatically redirect http://erikgrammer.com to http://www.erikgrammer.com

redirectPath();

function redirectPath() {
  re = /(http:\/\/erikgrammer.com)/;
  tmp = window.location.href;
  if (re.test(tmp)) {
    tmp = tmp.replace(re, 'http://www.erikgrammer.com');
    window.location.href = tmp;
  }
}

erikGrammer

Bill,
Thanks for the response and information. If I understand you correctly, the fact that erikgrammer.com and downloads.erikgrammer.com are unique domain names means that I can create a CNAME for downloads.erikgrammer.com that points to my godaddy ip address and an A record for erikgrammer.com that points to the smugmug ip address. If I set things up that way than am I correct that it would be unnecessary for me to use the javascript redirect?
Thanks again,
-erik

BeachBill

erikGrammer wrote:

Bill,
Thanks for the response and information. If I understand you correctly, the fact that erikgrammer.com and downloads.erikgrammer.com are unique domain names means that I can create a CNAME for downloads.erikgrammer.com that points to my godaddy ip address and an A record for erikgrammer.com that points to the smugmug ip address. If I set things up that way than am I correct that it would be unnecessary for me to use the javascript redirect?
Thanks again,
-erik

Erik,

Sorry about the delay in replying. I've been sick the past few days and am behind on my mail. I got to thinking about the javascript I mentioned, I have realized it won't work in your situation as your Smugmug account only recognizes the *.smugmug.com name and your custom hostname defined in your pro control panel, which is www.erikgrammer.com. You will need to do a redirect/forward of erikgrammer.com to www.erikgrammer.com via your godaddy account.

You are correct in that downloads.erikgrammer.com can point to another address and you should probably use an A record for it unless godaddy tells you to use a CNAME.

erikGrammer

BeachBill wrote:

Erik,

Sorry about the delay in replying. I've been sick the past few days and am behind on my mail. I got to thinking about the javascript I mentioned, I have realized it won't work in your situation as your Smugmug account only recognizes the *.smugmug.com name and your custom hostname defined in your pro control panel, which is www.erikgrammer.com. You will need to do a redirect/forward of erikgrammer.com to www.erikgrammer.com via your godaddy account.

You are correct in that downloads.erikgrammer.com can point to another address and you should probably use an A record for it unless godaddy tells you to use a CNAME.

Bill,

Thanks for the response and advice. I'm definitely in the 'knows enough to be dangerous' category....
Sorry to hear you were not feeling well–back here in Los Angeles everyone is sick too!
I'll get the records set up and thanks again for the help.

-erik

BeachBill

erikGrammer wrote:

Sorry to hear you were not feeling well–back here in Los Angeles everyone is sick too!

Hah! I was in Los Angeles over the weekend and that's where I got sick!