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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Hi is there any way to point subdomain & sudirectory to another hosting
I have a specific problem,
I have a domain -- example
domain.com
& I have a subdomain -- e.g -- > subdomain.domain.com
My domain.com has a dedciated IP & in a subfolder of it I have ...
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Performance penalty when using CNAME
We are using the current CNAME record for a server, i.e.
foo.example.com => CNAME => server1.example.com
server1.example.com => CNAME => ec2-34-142-138-31.compute-1.amazonaws.com
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mod_rewrite after a cname
I have the domain foo.bar.example.com. foo is one of many sub-subdomains under bar.example.com. I need to capture and redirect all links at foo.bar.example.com that begin with "/special/".
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Avoiding downtime while switching CNAMEs with AWS's Route53
I'm trying to make a seamless transition from Heroku to AWS. Currently, DNS is being handled by Route53, with a CNAME record sending traffic to the heroku SSL subdomain. I need to change this to an A ...
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Redirecting example.com to www.example.com
I have a Google App Engine app hosted at www.example.com. I want to redirect example.com to www.example.com.
I'm using Yahoo Domains and when I go to the Domain Redirect page, it tells me I can setup ...
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How to add CNAME in tinydns for reset gmail password?
I want to reset my gmail password ( I added my domain on google app ).
In this link http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112038 Google says too add Reset the administrator ...
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My registrar is OVH, my hosting is AlwaysData, how do I configure the DNS?
I own at OVH:
xxx.mydomain.com
I want it as an alias for:
yyy.alwaysdata.net
How do I proceed?
In the end, I want all requests to :
xxx.mydomain.com/whatever
returning the same as:
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is it possible to Point a cname record to a wilcard subdomain [closed]
*.mydomain.com is pointing to this directory /home/mydirectory so if I enter :
foo.mydomain.com or bar.mydomain.com it points to /home/mydirectory
in another domaine I've set a CNAME as : ...
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DNS setup: CNAME vs wildcard for SaaS
So I'm new to actually caring about how DNS's actually work, as opposed to plugging stuff in and troubleshooting. I have an application that will display different information depending on what domain ...
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CNAME: cross-site redirections toward subdomains
Good day everyone,
I saw many documentation about cname, but it couldn't help defining what was wrong with my approach.
I am stuck on a CNAME problem. I would welcome your advice and tips there. ...
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What's the difference between `dig` and `host` when querying a specific name-server?
I was using this command to verify if I'd set things up correctly with a DNS provider:
host hostname.example.com ns1.example-nameserver.com
As far as I can tell, this asks ...
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Connecting domain name to website deployed at cloud
I have a domain name lovedmusic.com. I have signed up for jelastic - a cloud web hosting service. Right now I m utilizing my trail period. I have created a environment with app id ...
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Moving hosting from godaddy to heroku - need a CNAME for myapp.herokuapp.com, should I remove the A record? [duplicate]
I've moved my web site hosting from godaddy to heroku. In DNS, I know I need a CNAME record for myapp.herokuapp.com; but what do I do with the A record? Seems like I need that for smtp, as the smtp ...
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HTTPS CNAME setup for CDN
Background
I need to host some files on our CDN (edgecast) which will be available over HTTPS. I would usually accomplish this by using the provided CDN url, i.e. https://wav22.233d.edgecast.com/.... ...
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CNAME domain to heroku app
I've got a domain hosted (DNS only) on Dreamhost. I've got www.mydomain.com CNAME'd to my web app on heroku, I would also like to CNAME just the domain (mydomain.com). Ofcourse, you can only CNAME ...
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How to add a CNAME for localhost in BIND 9?
I am doing web development and host the local versions of sites on my machine. I have Linux Slackware 14.0 with BIND 9.9.1-P3. In my named.conf I have this:
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
...
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Which FQDN hostname to use for SSL certificate signing request- when using a CNAME record?
We have a subdomain (https://portal.company.com) that is the alias for a different hostname (defined in a CNAME record).
This dynamic DNS hostname (https://portal.dlinkddns.com) resolves to the ...
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Moving WP blog to Tumblr but still use old WP server's images? [closed]
I've successfully moved my old WP blog that I hosted on my server to a Tumblr blog by using the CNAME to point to it.
However, all of the Tumblr blog's photos are still hosted on my old WP blog, so ...
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Adding cname without putting the subdomain
I want to point www.example.com or example.com to abc.example2.com.
In my cname zone settings for example.com, I have added a cname as follows:
name: www.example.com
type: cname
value: ...
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How can I get my MyDomain-registered domain to point to a new URL?
Sometime before, MyDomain allows CNAMEing of second-level domains, and I naively used that.
Now I thought I had specified everything using an A record, and last night I changed the entry for ...
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How to set up CNAME to point to Azure
Here's the story. I have an application on azure. I would like to set up an A-record. My main domain is myhost.dk and my azure adress is myhost.azurewebsites.net. The Azure guide says that I have to ...
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DNS record for thousand domains [closed]
I'm working at a small webhosting company. I have to set up the autoconfig (Thunderbird) and autodicover (Outlook) files, so that user (who have their own domain names, like www.userxyz.com) could set ...
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Difference between “IN A” and just “A” [duplicate]
What is the difference between these two records?
mysubdomain A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
mysubdomain.mydomain.com. IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
I've seen DNS entries written ...
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Sendmail issue with IPv6
I have an email server configured with multiple-instance of sendmail running each on different IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Everything is running smooth until a point where for some domains/emails ...
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Many domains/sites hosted on same server, CNAME alternatives to avoid writing same IP in DNS?
I have many sites (each one with its own domain) all on the same cPanel hosted server (let's say server IP is 1.1.1.1 and server main domain is myserver.com)
All these domains use third party DNS ...
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Will kerberos work with CNAMEs if I have the SPN created for the A record as well?
We are currently setting up a SQL 2012 environment and it will be used for storing data that will be accessed by SSRS in sharepoint integrated mode. We will be using Kerberos for authentication.
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CNAME domain to another domain, but keep different SPF records for the two?
SCENARIO:
mydomain.com is the main website, we do send/receive mail using
address@mydomain.com. mydomain.com DNS has got an SPF record "v=spf1 a mx ~all"
mydomain.net is just an alias for ...
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Will an MX record “follow” a CNAME record?
I have a situation I'm trying to work through that I'm not entirely sure how to solve.
Here's the situation:
I have a domain, let's say sub.otherdomain.com, that I want to set up e-mail addresses ...
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Domain not resolving with CNAME
I'm really struggling to get a website up and running for the NHS. Apologies in advance as it's the first time I've had to setup a domain without using NS records so I'm a tad out of my depth.
I ...
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Windows Server 2008 DNS server CNAME resolution and TTLs
We have a Windows 2008 SP2 DNS server configured to use root hints. We have a certain MX record lookup that it periodically fails to resolve for our client machines.
The lookup is for the MX record ...
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Multiple domains resolve to one domain [closed]
I have the following scenario:
domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com
domain4.com
Whenever someone types www.domain1.com or www.domain2.com or www.domain3.com she should be redirected to ...
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Why does Google use A record for www instead of CNAME? [closed]
Is A significantly faster than CNAME in this case?
$ dig www.google.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> www.google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ...
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CNAME Setup on Different Server
I have domain and hosting at GoDaddy.com with domain earthline.info. But my email is located at CBN.net.id. I have setup the mx with this configuration:
But for CNAME, i'm not sure what i must ...
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Heroku apex record setup
I have a heroku application and I want to configure my domain to redirect the apex record to www..
Are there any free services I could use for this purpose?
I mean other than rolling my own solution ...
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Regarding Cnames, A Records (Internal Network Forwarding to External Domain)
It is not possible to do a redirect from internal DNS to external domain correct?
We have a subdomain test.internaldomain.com and internally we want it to point to external url, including full path: ...
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What are the drawbacks to CNAMEing the DNS server that appears in Whois? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
In DNS can an IN NS point to a CNAME?
I've outsourced my DNS to a 3rd party and have many DNS zones to manage (or ask others to type in).
Since the hostname that the ...
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Apache + Tumblr Custom Domain
Have searcehed high and low for answer to this, but haven't found one.
Problem: I want to use a subdomain (blog.archivism.ca) of my domain (archivism.ca) as my tumblr custom domain.
I created the ...
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Email forwarding and CNAME records
I have a Heroku app and a domain that maps to it. The host records are set up as follows:
Now I want email to admin@mydomain.com to be forwarded to my gmail account. I was told by the support for my ...
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CNAME redirects behaving differently for two domains
I have two domains - oliverhaslam.com and ojhaslam.co.uk.
Both are registered with the same company, and both have A records pointing to my server's IP address.
Both also have CNAME records pointing ...
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Is subdomain (CNAME) slower than using original address?
I am no expert at this at all, so I am wandering is there a difference in speed, etc. when using some subdomain (CNAME record) over the original address?
For example, when using CDN like Amazon S3. ...
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SaaS that allows customers to use their own domain (with a CNAME) and serves using a CDN [closed]
I created a SaaS where customers can link to URLs of the form:
http://api.myservice.com/CUSTOMER_API_KEY/options/here
My customers can put these URLs directly in their HTML. I allow them to have ...
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Cname to multi-level heroku subdomain
I'm trying to create a cname that points from my custom domain (s.mydomain.com) to a multilevel subdomain hosted on heroku (me.myapp.herokuapp.com).
I've created the Cname s.mydomain.com with the ...
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DNS: CNAME as www record
I'm considering changing the DNS www records of a domain name from an A record to a CNAME. Various questions and answers on serverfault are not as clear cut as I'd hoped. Also, many DNS checking tools ...
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SSL, CNAME, and multiple domains
Say I have an SSL Certificate for a super cool site that I offer, like https://secure.coolsite.com/ (Not my site, just an example).
Then lets say I had a customer who wanted to have a CNAME to my site ...
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map subdomain to another subdomain via cname
Question: I need to get DNS configured to point a subdomain from one domain (which I will generally not be controlling) to another subdomain on a different domain name. Testing this process using a ...
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NGINX access logging with subdomain [closed]
We are trying to log requests made through an nginx load balancer.
When we make requests to our server on a subdomain (api.blah.com), the request does not show up in the access logs
However, ...
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Circumvent ID10T domain parking after MyDomain software migration?
I have been a happy customer of MyDomain.com, which handles domain stuff for http://JonathansCorner.com, which is my personal site handled correctly and http://JonathanHayward.com, which is CNAMEd to ...
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CNAME point subdomain to another domain
I know this has been asked before in various forms, but I've tried all the suggestions and had no luck (or maybe skills).
I am trying to point a subdomain (mail.abcd.com) to Rackspace's hosted ...
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Cname record to dns server
I have a nameserver of my hoster called ns1.hoster.com. I would like users of my (hosted) application to use my branded nameserver called ns1.mybrand.com.
ns1.mybrand.com points to ns1.hoster.com ...
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How to redirect the subdomain of a domain - Blogger [closed]
I have a blogger blog put up, and Google told me to add some A records in order to enable a www-free redirection to the full www domain. So by adding those, visiting bitfalls.com (which is my blog) ...
