A CNAME record or Canonical Name record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another, canonical domain name.
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Setting CNAME confusion
I don't get how CNAME DNS records work.
I always thought setting
bar.example.org. CNAME foo.example.com.
would let me request bar.example.org and receive foo.example.com while I own the ...
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Using mixed A-Type and CNAME
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doc.domain.de. IN A 301 to domain.atlassian.net
jira.domain.de. IN A 23.23.xx.xx
domain.de. IN A 301 to www.domain.de
work.domain.de. IN A ...
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map a sub page of a domain to google sites
I control a subpage of a site: economics.university.edu/summerschool
I have access to CNAME, etc. However I want to use Google sites to create the site and then map the URL above to my Google site. ...
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Domain mapping issues
I have two domain names - .com & .co.uk bought with 123-reg and just one student Windows hosting pack associated with the .co.uk domain.
The .com domain is the main one which people would be ...
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blah.com works, www.blah.com doesn't
I've found many a common question but unfortunately none of them really directly answered my inquiry, below is a copy paste of the info I am provided by xname.org I've replaced my .com with blah.com, ...
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How does pointing a domain via a CNAME record affect the SEO?
We are contemplating pointed secondary domains to a primary domain via CName records to keep things simple for our customers but we are concerned that this will negatively affect SEO.
How does ...
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Tumblr custom domain not redirecting properly
I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/ instead of http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still ...
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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website won't work without www. on 123-reg [duplicate]
I've got a website that works with my custom domain name with the www. but when I type it in without the www. it doesn't show up, and I've had customers wondering if my website is down because of ...
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Redirecting www.foo.example.com to foo.example.com
I have a Cpanel web hosting account and have created a subdomain which redirects to an IP address of a different server (Windows IIS) by creating an A record. I don't have control of the Windows ...
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Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com
I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I ...
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How to handle CNAME host redirect to virtual directory?
I have an internal website and virtual directory http://server2012/logs. I created a CNAME on my DNS server as LOGS -> server2012. I would like to set it up so that http://LOGS redirects to ...
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Make all subdomains point to root unless otherwise specified
I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain.
ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66
*.mydomain.com. CNAME ...
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Problems Using CloudFlare On Blogger
Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to:
Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or ...
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Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues
I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old ...
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Forwarding non-www domain to other domain with dns
Is it possible to forward firstdomain.com to www.seconddomain.com or seconddomain.com using surely dns records? I know how to forward www.firstdomain.com to seconddomain.com (with CNAME).
What I am ...
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Redirection based on user's location
I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using DNS CNAME records or should I write some GEOLocation codes to do that?
I will appreciate any other ideas.
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More confusion over SEO Cname and 301 redirect
Previous answers on this topic don't really help me with my query, so any help appreciated for a bit of a newbie.
I have a new domain "domain#1.mobi" Its hosted with godaddy and has a cname and ...
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Toggle CNAME entries using PHP?
Is it possible with PHP to dynamically toggle CNAME entries? For example I have two mirrors with media to be served on my website. Mirror 1 has a monthly bandwidth cap so upon reaching it I want to ...
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How to Configure Name Servers using Webmin in Unmanaged VPS on Centos
I want to configure my site's name servers and all related stuff. I'm not able to find any good documentation steps to do it straight-forwardly without understanding the natty-gritty of this. I wish I ...
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CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem
I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution.
I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want ...
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I want to host clients' websites, but not their email. What's the easiest way to handle this? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?
My company lets non-technical users build their own niche industry websites on our server, which we ...
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Root Domain Redirects Incorrectly To Https instead of to WWW
Why do visits to my website work without "www", but not to specific pages on it?
I recently moved my website to a new webhost, RedHat's OpenShift (a PAAS). It requires using Cname records to setup ...
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Domain Redirect to another using CNAME Record
I have a Domain, lets say maindom.com, now I want to have another Domain, lets say secdom.com to point to maindom.com such that all the URL's leads to maindom.com. I want to do this with the help of ...
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How can I point wildcard domains to a folder in Apache?
I am developing an app using PHP and deploying it on Apache on the Amazon AWS environment.
This app requires to be made available to customers from their own chosen domain name?
How can I acheive ...
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Do I need a subdomain or CNAME?
I have a domain with Godaddy (mysite.com) which is pointing to my AWS EC2 box.
Now I need a launchpad link on my website so that if the user clicks on it it would point to launch.mysite.com
This ...
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How can I remove the security/malicious user warning from my website?
I have a domain name tradespring.net, and www.tradespring.net that redirect to my heroku app with a CNAME record. However when I first try to access these sites it gives me a malicious warning
This ...
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if i change the cname of my site to point to tumblr will any .htaccess file i upload to the root be over ridden?
If i upload a .htaccess file to the root of my domain but then point the domains cname at tumblr will the contents of the .htaccess file be over ridden by tumblrs htacess file ?
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CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems
I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com
CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record.
I do not want to affect the MX record, but ...
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Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?
In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain http://example.com is redirected.
However, in that page, it tells me You must change the A-record at your domain ...
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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to my Google Sites site.
I want to add another, pointing mike.mydomain.com to ...
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Does the “canonical name” in DNS make any difference to search engines?
Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent.
Which is the ...
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How do I setup a permanent redirect from one domain to another?
I have a domain, say www.example.com which is redirected to a website built in Google Sites. I don't want different search engines treat example.com as a different site from www.example.com. How do I ...
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mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING
I'm trying to make http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ transparently rewrite to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING.
The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why.
ServerName ...
