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grouping two sites under domain and sub domain
I have 2 websites a main website hosted at fasthosts and an e-commerce website hosted at Vidahost.
I want to combine both websites under the same domain set.
Main site would be www.mydomain.com
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Who own privately registered sites? [closed]
If I register a site with 1and1 for example and do it with private domain registration does that mean that 1and1 owns my site?
If I want to take my domain to another registrar in the future, can they ...
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How important is customer support for just domain registration?
I'm looking at two companies to register a domain in, it's either going to be GoDaddy or 1and1.
I checked out some of the reviews and saw that 1&1 offers free private domain registration while ...
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How do you negotiate the purchase of a domain name? [closed]
I see a squatter holding a domain name I'm interested in.
How should I negotiate with them in purchasing it?
What should I not do?
Who should make a $$ offer first, them or me?
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Domain cname not resolving with dnsimple.com
I'm not an expert on DNS matters, but i have configured a few domain before and have a reasonable knowledge of how it's supposed to work.
But this one is over me, I've tried everything to try and ...
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change account's main domain in directadmin
Before anything I should acknowledge that my question was not understandable enough. So I totally edited that
I have a VPS with DirectAdmin control panel.
One of my users had registered with ...
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Migrating DNS account to new provider
Our company has multiple domain names, all registered with one registrar. Our DNS on the other hand is being managed by Rackspace under our old web development firm's reseller account.
We have now ...
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How to specify search domain name of nginx resolver for proxy_pass
Assuming my server is www.mydomain.com, on Nginx 1.0.6
I'm trying to proxy all request to http://www.mydomain.com/fetch to other hosts, the destination URL is specified as a GET parameter named ...
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DNS poisoned nslookup returns wrong ip address [migrated]
I recently had a 'redirect virus' while I was logged in as administrator. Every time I would query something in a search engine, I was redirected to domaindiscount24.com. After a virus cleanup ...
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Domain name transferred now website down. Nameservers not changed
Hi guys and Merry Christmas.
Got an email from a client late on Christmas Eve (joy) saying their website was down. We are looking to create a new site for them and take their hosting in the process. ...
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DNS Not Resolving For All Users
I recently transferred one of my domains to a new server, and ever since I am having intermittent issues accessing the site. taxiwayalpha.com does not work, www.taxiwayalpha.com occasionally works, ...
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Possible issues with domain names ? [closed]
I need to register few domains for some people. These sites will be for small business owners who don't really know much about the internet so I'm looking for something which I can just set up and ...
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How to block Spiders / Scrapers by REMOTE hostname / domain for all Virtual Hosts in Apache?
I've seen plenty of robot.txt stuff, and some mod-rewrite solutions that looked promising… but haven't been able to find a simple solution to block Spiders / Scrapers / whoever the hell I want to ...
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Win 2008 Join Domain with PDC IP but no Domain Name of the AD
I would like to write script to allow a workstation to join a domain. I have the IP address of the primary DC of this domain. Are there any commands / scripts that I can use to retrieve the domain ...
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Two domain names one Sendmail account
I have pointed domain1.com and domain2.com to the same server on the same IP. Now email directed to me@domain2.com gets rejected:
X.X.X.X does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1
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How do I point two domain names to one server? [closed]
I need to point two domain names to one server. It is an Apache Linux server.
I understand that I can create two A records in the DNS pointing to the same IP. But how do I configure the Apache ...
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SSL common names for second-level-domains
While configuring SSL and certificates in my Apache server I had some troubles with second-level-domains like .com.pt.
If I ask for a certificate for a www.xpto.com domain it will be issued for ...
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bind9 and multiple zone master based on domains
Is it possible to setu bind9 as a caching server, but for specific domains to use one zone master and for the nonspecified to use another zone master?
Our setup:
Inhouse there is a DNS-server, which ...
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Some questions regarding Hostname
I just bought a new VPS hosting plan and i have a few questions.
Hope someone here can clear the doubts for me.
1) Is it necessary to have a real domain for a vps hostname? I suppose i can just ...
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Where does the NS lookup chain stop?
When does the NS lookup chain stop?
For example, if I go to A.com and the NS for A.com is ns.B.com.
Then the client (browser) needs to find out the IP for B.com, NS for B.com is ns.C.com.
Then the ...
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Redirect domain to virtual server with correct URL in browser
I have an ASP.NET v4 application running on a virtual server, IIS 7.5, port 8080. Whilst testing we have behave been connecting using the IP address e.g. http://100.100.100.100:8080
I have now ...
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If I register a domain name as a name server what do I set it's name server to? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a glue record?
Do I add my ISP's name servers for the domain or itself as the name server?
e.g. say I have the domain www.shoes.com and a server setup for DNS ...
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What are the benefits of choosing http://www.xyz.com as the main domain instead of http://xyz.com? [closed]
I recently learned that http://www.xyz.com is not the same as http://xyz.com. I also learnt that when a user go to either site, the creator of xyz.com has the option to choose a "main" domain.
From ...
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Site name questions [closed]
I'm creating a website on German cars. No issues with it, since it's basically a PHP site, and let's say for the sake of argument, there are no server issues.
However, I plan to call it "autohaus" ...
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free, stable and reliable domain name [closed]
I have my soft that must connect to a web site and download updates. I use a free web hosting. I must change a hosting because it can work bad, can die etc; a free hosting isn't responsible and ...
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Server domain name is replaced with IP address in browser address bar
I installed a LAMP server and set up my domain name to resolve to an appropriate IP address. However, when I connect to a server with it's domain name, it is with an IP address in an address bar. My ...
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How to change computer name in Win7 in a workgroup to make it like in a domain [closed]
My home computer is currently in my home's workgroup, and I don't have any domain controller in my home network. I would like to have my computer's hostname look like mycomputer.mydomain.com, but ...
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Invalid Hostname - DNS change [closed]
I ping my site on pingdom.com over here (http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/) and got result
invalid host name.
then i check my DNS HEALTH and got result as follow
Delegation
Everything is fine
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Point Domain Name To Own IP
I have just bought a new domain name through Crazy Domains, but not DNS routing.
At the moment the name servers are pointing to Crazy Domain, but I would like web traffic to go to my own IP address.
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How to add Windows XP VM's to a domain using Sysprep tool?
We have deployed OpenNebula for our cluster running ESXi 4.1 servers. We have a DHCP and general network in our organization, and our ONE server is already configured for as our test Linux VM's get ...
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How do I configure my server to forward “domain.com” to “www.domain.com”?
I need to forward all visitors from "domain.com" to "www.domain.com".
I know this has something to do with altering the nginx config file but am not sure what to do or what code to use.
I am using ...
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How do I use OpenDKIM with multiple domain names on a single server?
How do I use OpenDKIM with multiple domain names on a single server?
I own 3 domain names, and I have a single server that's running postfix for sending email. How do I use OpenDKIM?
Can I use the ...
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Current zone configuration for a DNS entry
I just recently stepped into a new job out of college and am learning the ropes quickly. I have just been requested to move DNS for a specific domain name. The new clients asked for the current zone ...
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Windows Server 2008R2 DNS local IP's
I have a Windows Server 2008R2 server running as our domain controller and DNS server. We have a number of local IP addresses that users access quite a few times a day. At the moment they have to ...
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Hosting many web apps under different domain names
I've created a domain name and I've changed the DNS to my hosting machine IP.
No problem with that. I host a few web applications on my machine, all under the same IP address. They're all stored as ...
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How to enable my clients use a custom domain name
I want people to be able to use a custom domain name to access an application I have hosted on my server. From what I have read, people can do this by changing the A Record of their accounts to my IP ...
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Ubuntu Bind9 Zones
I have a quick question. I just setup DNS on one of our Ubuntu servers using Bind9. Now my question is do we need to setup a "zone" for every domain name? Or is there another option? What are the best ...
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Hostname vs domain name when using dynamic DNS?
I've setup a dynamic DNS service with DynDNS, let's call it:
foobar.dyndns.net
When I setup a Linux server, what should be my hostname and domain name??
For instance, if I setup Slackware Linux, ...
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How to set up Name Servers on my VPS?
I am a complete newbie to server administration and I bought myself a cheap unmanaged VPS to learn to do something on my own and not be so tied to other people.
So far things have been going on ...
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“The domain name must not be less than 3 characters”, while hp.com is a valid domain name? [closed]
When I try to register a domain name in register.com that is less than 3 characters, it displays this message: "The domain name must not be less than 3 characters"
Why it's not possible to register a ...
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Nameserver not working, no A record found
I'm having trouble setting up a nameserver for my domain, we recently changed the nameserver of my domain because of an application that said our nameservers were not working fine. But now my domain ...
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Joining domain in depolying image with Unattend file
I am deploying windows 7 images to our classroom PC's via WDS. Am trying to get the machine to auto join the domain through the unattend file but am running into an issue. The unattendfile is created ...
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How does an internal DNS server work in relation to our local servers and domain names?
How can an internal DNS server work in relation to a domain name we currently own?
If my company's website is example.com and it currently points to a DNS server elsewhere that points to the ...
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Some domain names not resolving on local network
I am not really sure where to start with this one...
I have a small network setup with some linux servers (Ubuntu 11.04 Server).
2 servers are running BIND 9 (NS01, NS02), they are configured as ...
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How to set up your own email domain for Microsoft Server 2008, Exchange 2007, Outlook?
I am missing something from the whole picture here. I know that in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, I am able to set up an active directory and then create my own domain name for my users. However, I ...
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Can I manually configure a domain name for Windows Home Server 2011 Remote Access?
Windows Home Server 2011 supports remote web access. The wizard conveniently configured my router (apparently) and then asks to configure a domain name. I have a domain name currently parked with a ...
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Is using a name server on a different host a good practice?
So, let me explain. Assuming i have to set up a website, and i've got a brand new dedicated server. Now, i could use a shared hosting server (which is in the same network as my dedicated one) as DNS ...
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Is it ok to not use 'www' in my website subdomain url?
We have a website that is a subdomain of our primary domain, such as site.domain.com. The official URL of the website is http://site.domain.com, but some people keep referring to it as ...
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How to create a Mail Server?
I'm planning to introduce computers within my Dad's company. At present, the company does not use any computers. I have created a web application, but I have not created a mail server because I have ...
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What is the difference between www.domain-name.com and domain-name.com ? How to redirect between the two?
I recently purchased a hosting plan from one of the service providers. They offered a free domain-name to me and I gladly purchased it.
Now I logged into their control panel and put all my files ...
