I have a very specific issue.
I have a website which is responsive for both computer and mobile devices. Here’s the domain: https://sleepy-wescoff-f54df0.netlify.app/ As you can see, it's hosted by netlify.
I recently bought a new domain on GoDaddy, to which I forwarded it permanently (301). This keeps the site responsive but the domain name remains the old one somehow. But I want the custom domain name to remain equal and not forward to the old one.
I also tried to forward with masking, it does change the domain name above but loses all sense of responsiveness on mobile devices. I already looked it up and this creates a sort of iframe, I think, which I don’t understand and can’t seem to solve the problem.
Is it possible to get some help? Thank you in advance!
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I want to make the move to Webflow for a client project that require a CMS. I would like some more information about the logistics and best practices of adding domains though.
Say for instance I have a client’s home page and a blog hosted on Webflow and this is accessed by their custom domain. what if I still need to host additonal files, and other pages on a traditional hosting platform with cPanel?
Would it be best to point the www.clientwebsite.com to Webfllow and keep the clientwebsite.com pointing at traditional host with a 301 redirect to the www.clientwebsite.com
I could still have pages on the traditional host for example clientwebsite.com/page.html while being able to add additional pages to Webflow e.g. www.clientwebsite.com/page.html
Basically I want to be able to use the same domain name on both Webflow and traditional hosting with cPanel, I just want to know what the best way to do this is, is there a better way to achieve this, is there anything to be careful of/ or would be considered bad practice?
Thanks in advance
Typically, one hostname will resolve to one IP address, so one hosting platform has to be the entry point. If the sites can be logically separated, you should probably just use different hostname (blog.example.com, www.example.com, something.example.com) and point them to different hosting platforms.
If you need to have content from the 2 platforms served under the same hostname, then one platform will be the entry point and there it will have some internal rewrite/proxy rules to fetch and serve content from somewhere else. This is easily doable in all modern webservers (nginx, apache..) but I am not sure your CMS platform will allow it.
Searched the web and unable to find a solution. I have an umbraco site using IIS to host on a Windows server. Any ideas on approach to block users accessing site outside the UK? Htaccess approach would be too slow.... thank you in advance!
That's quite hard to do accurately, as you could have someone based in the UK using a European network provider, which means that they might appear to come from say Holland instead of the UK. It's also possible for people to spoof their location fairly easily if they really want to get at your site.
As Lex Li mentions there are plenty of commercial databases and tools for looking up a user's location, but the accuracy of these varies considerably, not to mention the fact that some of them only support IPv4. Any of these options are going to be slow though, as you'll have to check on every request. You also have to make sure you keep the databases up to date.
Another option would be to proxy your site through something like CloudFront or CloudFlare which both support blocking traffic by country.
I have a very recently purchased website say www.existingdomain.org (both domain name and hosting purchased with the same hosting company). I have not yet submitted this to search engines as the website development is still in progress.
Now, I have realized that the name www.existingdomain.org is not so good, so want to change the name say like www.newdomain.org (just a domain name only without hosting plan) and require that when search for www.newdomain.org, it should get redirected to www.exisitngdomain.org.
1) I wanted to know, if I can achieve the domain redirection by purchasing www.newdomain.org with say some other domain registrar (different from my www.existingdomain.org) for example godaddy.com as a parked domain without any hosting and then following the steps for forwarding/redirecting this to www.existingdomain.org? Please clarify.
2) For this redirection, is it enough to modify the settings for the www.newdomain.org at godaddy.com only OR any updates need to be done to the www.existingdomain.org configuration also?
3) I read many reviews that Google treats domain alias as duplicate content. Hence, wanted to go for domain redirection. Since my www.existingdomain.org was purchased very recently and still development is in progress and not yet submitted to search engines, hope domain redirection is fine. Please advise which one is best domain redirection or alias in my case.
4) Also, please advise whether domain alias or redirect is best with respect to search engines.
Please, provide clarifications to my 3 points above using www.existingdomain.org and www.newdomain.org for explanation purposes.
if you just purchased the domain then just scrap it and start fresh with the domain you really want, no reason in wasting time doing redirects and aliasing.
We're developing a client-server game that communicates with our server in real time. During development we directed the client to the server's IP address directly.
Moving forward to release, we'd like to switch the target server IP to a domain name.
I'm looking for feedback whether we should use a sub-domain within our web-site main domain (say: server.mygame.com), or, setup a different domain for the game server (mygame-server.com).
If there is no difference either way I'd love to get feedback on that as well.
Thanks!
This question might be better asked at serverfault.com because it is not strictly related to programming...
Anyway, providing my opinion on your quesion: I'd go for a subdomain of a new game-related main domain.
Here's why: this should give you the most flexability for future changes, assuming the following thoughts:
A new domain especially for that game allows you to promote game information on the www. subdomain.
The game endpoint sits (for example) at api. which points to a different server than any of the websites (improves stability, allows different software for same ports, e.g. web servers).
You can add round-robin DNS load balancing (or any other load-balancing) later. This might be easier if this can be done on a spearate main domain.
You don't have to mess with the main company DNS entries for any game-related settings, improving the stability of both services (as they are separated).
If you might sell the game one day, and a different domain makes it easier to transfer all services and data.
Using a subdomain makes it easier in general because normally the second-level domains (like the A record for example.com) is handled by the DNS servers at a "lower" level in "DNS authority tree" (e.g. at you DNS provider), so it might be more difficult to add special features like load-balancing there.
So these are only some thoughts. Basically it should not matter which way you set up the DNS entries, but if one of the topics above applies (or otherwise sounds reasonable) then you might choose a subdomain on a new domain ;)
I want to check a particular website from various locations. For example, I see a site example.com from the US and it works fine. The colleague in Europe says he cannot see the site (gets a dns eror).
Is there any way I can check that for my self instead of asking him every time?
This is a bit of self promotion, but I built a tool to do just this that you might find useful, called GeoPeeker.
It remotely accesses a site from servers spread around the world, renders the page with webkit and sends back an image. It will also report the IP address and DNS information of the site as it appears from that location.
There are no ads, and it's very stream-lined to serve this one purpose. It's still in development, and feedback is welcome. Here's hoping somebody besides myself finds it useful!
Sometimes a website doesn't work on my PC and I want to know if it's the website or a problem local to me(e.g. my ISP, my router, etc).
The simplest way to check a website and avoid using your local network resources(and thus avoid any problems caused by them) is using a web proxy such as Proxy.org.
Well, DNS should be the same worldwide, wouldn't it? Of course it can take up to a day or so until your new DNS record is propagated around the world. So either something is wrong on your colleague's end or the DNS record still takes some time...
I usually use online DNS lookup tools for that, e.g. http://network-tools.com/
It can check your HTTP header as well. Only a proxy located in Europe would be better.
Besides using multiple proxies or proxy-networks, you might want to try the planet-lab. (And probably there are other similar institutions around).
The social solution would be to post a question on some board that you are searching for volunteers that proxy your requests. (They only have to allow for one destination in their proxy config thus the danger of becoming spam-whores is relatively low.) You should prepare credentials that ensure your partners of the authenticity of the claim that the destination is indeed your computer.
DNS info is cached at many places. If you have a server in Europe you may want to try to proxy through it
It depends on wether the locatoin is detected by different DNS resolution from different locations, or by IP address that you are browsing from.
If its by DNS, you could just modify your hosts file to point at the server used in europe. Get your friend to ping the address, to see if its different from the one yours resolves to.
To browse from a different IP address:
You can rent a VPS server. You can use putty / SSH to act as a proxy. I use this from time to time to brows from the US using a VPS server I rent in the US.
Having an account on a remote host may or may not be enough. Sadly, my dreamhost account, even though I have ssh access, does not allow proxying.
The only thing that springs to mind for this is to use a proxy server based in Europe. Either have your colleague set one up [if possible] or find a free proxy. A quick Google search came up with http://www.anonymousinet.com/ as the top result.