Hi, I registered a domain through Yahoo yesterday and am having a
couple of problems.
1) when I type in the domain name without the www prefix, the website
comes up. But, when I type in the www prefix, it can't find my site.
How can I fix this?
2) when I do get to my site, using the domain name (without the www
prefix) it shows the actual url of my site, instead of the domain
address. How can I get the domain address to show, instead of the
individual names of my pages?
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Request for Question Clarification by
andyt-ga
on
26 Oct 2003 09:19 PST
misterrachel-ga,
It would be helpful to know what host you are using for this domain.
andyt-ga
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Clarification of Question by
misterrachel-ga
on
26 Oct 2003 11:41 PST
Ah sorry, that would have been helpful to provide, eh? :-) I am
hosting the website from my Earthlink account. The only help that
Yahoo offered was to say that I needed to setup something called
CNAME?
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Request for Question Clarification by
bookface-ga
on
03 Nov 2003 02:46 PST
1) A CNAME forward will only work with another correctly set up web
host; for instance, one might forward twop.com to
televisionwithoutpity.com or something along those lines, and then
http://www.twop.com/foo/bar/etc would forward to
http://televisionwithoutpity.com/foo/bar/etc.
I'm not sure, but I suspect you were attempting to use CNAME
forwarding and turned it on either on purpose or by accident? try
turning CNAME off if it is on.
More information from Yahoo about CNAMES:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/domains/forward/forward-04.html
2) It's certainly possible in general, but you can't with Yahoo's
services.
From http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/domains/forward/forward-02.html :
"When someone types the URL of a forwarded web address into their
browser, the request goes to a server where a script redirects the
user to the destination URL that hosts the web pages. The original URL
won't stay in the browser's address window. Forwarding is handy when
you're hosting your web site with a home page service such as Yahoo!
GeoCities or with you local ISP."
As I said, there is a way around this in general, but Yahoo doesn't
have anything set up for it; as in No-IP.com's setup, a website (a
personal example: http://courses.hopto.org ) can use frames to fill
the page up with whatever contents are desired and keep the URL the
same across all browsing (try clicking a link; the page contents
change but not the URL). However, I don't think you want to forward to
an address that is something.hopto.org or something.no-ip.com; if you
are willing to have that as the shown address, though, you can use
no-ip's free services to do that forwarding, and forward to no-ip from
your Yahoo-parked domain. Another option is to do forwarding through a
free .tk domain name, instead of a free no-ip redirect; their
redirection services work better and hide the full url, so you can
safely redirect from say misterrachel.com to misterrachel.tk, and have
both as working addresses for your website, which is actually at
whatever-long-earthlink-address, which users never see (unless they
look for it; it is impossible to completely hide the true host of a
web page.)
.TK addresses have one catch: they need to be used. You have to have
30 visitors every 90 days, or the domain goes away. This is a
relatively small price to pay for a free domain name. It also comes
with advertisements by default, but you have the option to turn them
off.
- bookface
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Request for Question Clarification by
bookface-ga
on
03 Nov 2003 02:47 PST
Sorry, I meant to ask:
Is the solution for #1 correct? and if so, is this a sufficient answer for you?
-bookface
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