Hello there! I have been trying to do something lately but failed miserably. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have used the fabulous service for blogging that Gandi provides. Let us say as an example that my domain is http://example.com. I created the blog right in the root, and people have no problem reaching the blog in http://example.com. But I would like people to get to the blog if they type http://www.example.com as well. A little googling told me that what I need is a CNAME for www. So I tried several combinations, in the Manage DNS in my Gandi domain. I used the normal interface and created a CNAME for www pointing to: a) webredir.vip.gandi.net. b) http://example.com c) example.com d) the IP address present in the "@ A" line. None of this worked. Could someone help me? Merci bien! Luis.
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- By: Luis
- Date: on 2007 Feb. 19 18:48
- Subject: About having http://www.example.com point to http://example.com
- By: Luis
- Date: on 2007 Feb. 28 06:33
- Subject: Re: About having http://www.example.com point to http://example.com
Hello there! This is Luis, the same guy that wrote the first blog entry. Well, people at support-en@support.gandi.net has given me a hint to solve the problem: forwarding. Without getting into the DNS area you can go to web forwarding and forward http://www.example.com to http://example.com In my case I did not mask the original address for the following reason: Say someone types http://www.example.com in their Web browser. They are automatically redirected to http://example.com. They read some blog entries and decide they want to send one of them to a friend. They can then copy the address field in their web browser (something like http://example.com/post/2007/02/27/This-is...) and paste it somewhere. If the mask option were used they would only see http://www.example.com all the time, and they would not be able to see the link to the blog entry. Simple useful answer, thanks people at support-en@support.gandi.net!! Luis.
- By: Xiadix
- Date: on 2007 Mar. 28 01:47
- Subject: Re: About having http://www.example.com point to http://example.com
I actually did almost the opposit. I wet my blog up at www.blogname.com and removed the other web DNS entry. Now www.blogname.com works, and http:\\blogname.com forwards to www automatically. KevG On Feb, 28 2007 07:33 CET, Luis wrote:
Hello there! This is Luis, the same guy that wrote the first blog entry. Well, people at support-en@support.gandi.net has given me a hint to solve the problem: forwarding. Without getting into the DNS area you can go to web forwarding and forward http://www.example.com to http://example.com In my case I did not mask the original address for the following reason: Say someone types http://www.example.com in their Web browser. They are automatically redirected to http://example.com. They read some blog entries and decide they want to send one of them to a friend. They can then copy the address field in their web browser (something like http://example.com/post/2007/02/27/This-is...) and paste it somewhere. If the mask option were used they would only see http://www.example.com all the time, and they would not be able to see the link to the blog entry. Simple useful answer, thanks people at support-en@support.gandi.net!! Luis.