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jowille

I just purchased a professional account and obtained a domain thru GoDaddy. I have set it per the instructions on the smugmug help and if I type in my url;

jowillephoto.com

it will take me to my smugmug site. But, if I type in www.jowillephoto.com I get a message saying that it cannot find the DNS. It does this in Firefox and Internet explorer. In my account settings on smugmug I have typed in www.jowillephoto.com. Am I missing something obvious? Sorry if this is too simple, but I am a newbie at this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill

System

jowille wrote:

I just purchased a professional account and obtained a domain thru GoDaddy. I have set it per the instructions on the smugmug help and if I type in my url;

jowillephoto.com

it will take me to my smugmug site. But, if I type in www.jowillephoto.com I get a message saying that it cannot find the DNS. It does this in Firefox and Internet explorer. In my account settings on smugmug I have typed in www.jowillephoto.com. Am I missing something obvious? Sorry if this is too simple, but I am a newbie at this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill

It takes a while for full propagation around the net to take place. I can see your site from here using that url, but it is possibly not everyone can yet. It usually takes somewhere between 12-48 hours or so for this prpagation to be completed. Once this is done you should be able to see your site from everywhere.

This sounds like your situation and I hope this helps.
Cheers

-don

jowille

Thanks Don,

Are you seeing it with www.jowillephoto.net? I'll give it time and see what happens.

Thanks,

Bill

rainforest1155

Bill,
Welcome to dgrin and your .com is working now!

Sebastian

jowille

thanks! I have a lot of learning and work to do! I think this forum will be a big help. :

I just started to do some equestrian photography, so I'm practicing with them. Am gearing up to do little league photos. Should be fun!

Bill

System

jowille wrote:

Thanks Don,

Are you seeing it with www.jowillephoto.net? I'll give it time and see what happens.

Thanks,

Bill

Not from my place yet. I have seen instances where it only takes a few hours or so, others, up to a few days. FWI, if you use private registration or change to private registration, the time it takes is usually a bit longer.

Cheers

-don

jowille

Thanks again Don, I did use private registration, so I will give it more time.

This stuff is fun, but it is a nice day outside today....:):

Thanks,

Bill

digismile

Your url http://www.jowillephoto.com/ is working for me at 10:38 MDT Apr 10

Brad

System

jowille wrote:

Thanks again Don, I did use private registration, so I will give it more time.

This stuff is fun, but it is a nice day outside today....:):

Thanks,

Bill

I hear that, I have a couple mega-blisters from the last two days. I live near Chicago and hate the long winters so I have decided to install my own inventory of flowers to shoot this summer. Somewhere around 1500 sq feet more of flowers to add to what I already have. About 50 different flavors should be popping. The weather the last three days has been just wonderful and I am heading back out to enjoy it now.

Take it easy.

-don

jowille

thanks Brad and Minoltaman! I see it all working here now! I really appreciate the help and advice. This forum is going to be a huge help! I have been looking around and getting used to the layout of the forum, so I will try to do better searches so hopefully I won't be repeating too many questions.

Much appreciated, to all!

Bill

KeithH

I'm a little confused about this. Do I really direct the CNAME record to www.smugmug.com, like the directions say, and NOT to my smugmug address? I don't see how this would work, but what do I know.

The first time I did it according to the instructions I was taken to SmugMug's home page when I typed in my own URL, so I went back and deleted that and entered my smugmug address. I'm waiting to see what happens. I'll probably have to change it back. Thanks.

KeithH

Oops! I forgot the other step. I forgot to go into account settings, professional features and enter the custom host name there. I'm sure that will take care of it. Nevermind..... but a little reminder on the instruction page page my be good for people like myself. Sorry!