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  • Offline neXus

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Linking Domain address to sub domain
on: March 23, 2009, 10:21:36 AM
Hey all, Can someone give me a run down of what you do for this..

- Have a domain address - www.myaddress.com with a domain compay
- Got my hosting etc on godaddy and have setup a subdomain... myaddress.myhosting.com and so /myaddress folder on the server.

What do I need to do to set up the address to the domain. I can do url forwarding but the url shows - myaddress.myhosting.com. I want it to show the full other address.
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  • Offline Mark

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Re:Linking Domain address to sub domain
Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 20:13:34 PM
what full other address?

I dont understand your question really - can you not just create an A record for the first segment
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Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 20:22:51 PM
does your domain host allow domainforwarding? only downer with this usually is the name bar wont change from www.whaterver.com when you click on pages.. so it wouldnt say

http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/reply/0/14526.page for example, just show http://www.tekforum.co.uk.

Otherwise its just a case of nameservers, etc. - you may even need to transfer the domain to the hosting company
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Reply #3 on: March 23, 2009, 21:29:19 PM
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does your domain host allow domainforwarding? only downer with this usually is the name bar wont change from www.whaterver.com when you click on pages.. so it wouldnt say

http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/reply/0/14526.page for example, just show http://www.tekforum.co.uk.

Otherwise its just a case of nameservers, etc. - you may even need to transfer the domain to the hosting company


I have done that but I want to do it properly..

confetticakes.5thdigital.com

I want -> confetticakes.co.nz to point to the the link above (only the subdomain) which is a folder in my host directory. I know it 100% doable and not a problem etc, I just not sure myself how as I not actually done it.
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Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 21:55:16 PM
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Quote from: Eggtastico
does your domain host allow domainforwarding? only downer with this usually is the name bar wont change from www.whaterver.com when you click on pages.. so it wouldnt say

http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/reply/0/14526.page for example, just show http://www.tekforum.co.uk.

Otherwise its just a case of nameservers, etc. - you may even need to transfer the domain to the hosting company


I have done that but I want to do it properly..

confetticakes.5thdigital.com

I want -> confetticakes.co.nz to point to the the link above (only the subdomain) which is a folder in my host directory. I know it 100% doable and not a problem etc, I just not sure myself how as I not actually done it.


i used to do this all the time with whoever I had my domains with - it was all done through their website control panel - Im guessing it just used frames or somthing
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  • Offline Cypher

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Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 23:16:23 PM
Easy. create an A record.

www.yourdomain.com for example. is an a record.
secure.yourdomain.com might resolve to an Website portal IP address.
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Linking Domain address to sub domain
Reply #6 on: March 24, 2009, 09:01:34 AM
Quote from: neXus
Hey all, Can someone give me a run down of what you do for this..

- Have a domain address - www.myaddress.com with a domain compay
- Got my hosting etc on godaddy and have setup a subdomain... myaddress.myhosting.com and so /myaddress folder on the server.

What do I need to do to set up the address to the domain. I can do url forwarding but the url shows - myaddress.myhosting.com. I want it to show the full other address.


If youve created a folder inside your root directory then you should be able to access it from the www.domain/folder address anyway, negating the use of a subdomain.
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Linking Domain address to sub domain
Reply #7 on: March 24, 2009, 09:38:09 AM
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Quote from: neXus
Hey all, Can someone give me a run down of what you do for this..

- Have a domain address - www.myaddress.com with a domain compay
- Got my hosting etc on godaddy and have setup a subdomain... myaddress.myhosting.com and so /myaddress folder on the server.

What do I need to do to set up the address to the domain. I can do url forwarding but the url shows - myaddress.myhosting.com. I want it to show the full other address.


If youve created a folder inside your root directory then you should be able to access it from the www.domain/folder address anyway, negating the use of a subdomain.

Yes I know that, Sub Domains have uses.

Does not matter anyway, I have done it the right way.
Got mixed up, I created an addon domain linked to the folder I created.
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