I have a server with Plesk and CentOS.
http://cdn.oyunlar1.com/images/8836.jpg file is located in server A.
http://www.oyunlar1.com/modaokulu.html file is located in server B.
I basically want the same thing except I want to locate media files in a different domain instead of different server. Like this:
user visits cdn.mydomain.com/file.swf
but they actually read files from mydomain2.com/file.swf
I tried changing IP of A record of the subdomain to mydomain2.com's IP but it didn't work.
How can I do it?
Edit: I want to do this because it will help me to change my hosting provider very quickly and easily becuse media files are +100GB and the rest is like 10MB.
Solution was simply adding CNAME record to mydomain.com of mydomain2.com and using htaccess at mydomain2.
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It's hard to explain, I would like to do something like below but I don't know how.
I currently own two different domain names and have one website.
Can I have two domains pointing to the same website but the URL only shows whatever domain is entered in the first place?
For example, when I type in 'domain123.com', it takes me to my website (IP address 111.222.333) with the URL shown as 'domain123.com'. Then when I type in 'domainABC.com', it also takes me to the same website (IP address 111.222.333), but the URL needs to show 'domainABC.com' instead of 'domain123.com'.
I guess I will need to redirect one of the two domains to the website, but how can I stop the URL changes the domain name?
I am not sure if I can just modify .htaccess to achieve above or if I also need to change the DNS, etc. to make this work.
Please help and many thanks
It depends on your setup and your server permissions.
A nice way will be to change the docroot in the apache or nginx config.
If you don't have permissions to edit these configs, you can create a symbolic links so that the public folder of domain2 points to the public folder of domain1
I am completely confused the last few days with this and I still haven't found an outcome that's worked.
Basically I have a domain name without hosting at letshost.ie which is dublinplasterer.ie
I also Have one domain & hosting with godaddy for domain- shanafagan.com which is my own site for web/graphic design service.
I created a subdomain= dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com and uploaded the site files.
Basically I want for example when someone types in dublinplasterer.ie in the address bar if goes to dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com but doesn't show dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com url, stays as dublinplasterer.ie
Im not even sure if this can be done at this stage. head is melted
shanafagan.com and the subdomain dublinplasterer.shanafagan.com have the same ip so how will that work if changing dns?
Any help would be greatly appreciated , am so stuck at this stage.
If you wanted to do it this way you would need a web server for domain2.com
Search for ProxyPass.
The way you should do this is add a second domain on your web hosting (cpanel for example) and point the other domain to this web server.
If you are struggling I recommend using a solution like cPanel that is widely used and simplifies much of the process. It is common enough you can google most issues.
So normally you would have started by making an add-on domain (instead of a subdomain) which would also create it's own subdomain anyway. To do that, you go to your cPanel in GoDaddy and find add-on domain, then make it "dublinplasterer.ie" (Don't add www. to it. Even though this name is hosted elsewhere, we will later go to your DNS files at that hosting and point it to your GoDaddy's name servers and this add-on helps it direct to the right root folder) then choose your local root folder for that site (I think you can actually make this the same as your other subfolder already hosting your files and then it will just pull the same site) or you can pick a different subfolder and then make the add-on domain. This tells any request to this name server that if it is a request for "dublinplasterer.ie" it needs to send it to the subfolder you specified.
If you don't make the subfolder the same as the one you already made, you can either load the same content into your new subfolder or create a CNAME record telling this add-on to point to your subfolder instead but that is more complex so go with the other route.
Lastly, you need to go to your original hosting at letshost.ie and under your domain name find the DNS records tab. Change the name servers to match your GoDaddy ones and now (may take a day or two to show as DNS changes often take days and can't be seen immediately but you can try using a different device/computer/mobile that hasn't loaded it previously to see if it will refresh the correct dns) it should work. Even though it points to your main site name servers, the add-on domain you made receives it and directs it to the subfolder you specified on the add-on domain.
Hope that helps, let me know if it works for you.
I'm hosting a clients site at client.mysite.com, but my client want to have its own domain, like www.clientsite.com.
With a CNAME configuration, I'll be able to hook my client domain to the content, but... considering I'm still hosting my clients content, which domain will be finally listed on Google with contents of client.mysite.com contents?
a) mysite.com
b) clientsite.com
Thanks for helping.
In the DNS hierarchy, the CNAME resource record will be attached to the clientside.com. A CNAME is simply a reference to the location of that site's A record. With that in mind, I believe mysite.com will be listed as hosting the data.
Does your client want it to appear under his name?
If so, then this should not be solved using DNS (well, not only using DNS).
If your client wants to get the content listed under his domain name, the best way to do this, is to add their name to your server.
Then point client domain name to your server.
The best way to do the pointing (when also considering SEO)
is to make an webforward (301 permanent) from the root, to the www
and make the www subdomain point to the ressource.
(Or vice verca)
IF you are using the example above (webforward on root) you can use a cname instead of an A record to point the domain name. However do not add a cname to the root of a domain (effectively shutting down your domain name).
So-
Short Answer:
client.mysite.com will have the content (also according to google).
Any attempt to obfuscate this is black hat or grey hat ;)
a better way of doing it is to simply setup the clients domain name on your server.
Then point only one hostname to the server. Server host/headers will take care of the rest.
Setup in DNS
# webforward 301 www
www a or Cname to server
Quick rules:
NEVER put Cname on the root of a domain
Only allow 1 hostname to show content (can be done both as explained above via DNS/webforward or via server configurations)
I have a site that lets people have their own e-stores, for ex- mysite.com/clientname
What I want is, if somebody opens store.clientname.com or clientname.com/store, the content is pulled from mysite.com/clientname. [ So that their users feel that they are browsing on their site ]
I know this is possible because site'e like tumblr let you do that by changing a CNAME entry for your domain to their IP address.
I do have a dedicated IP address.
Also, can this be done by editing the .htaccess file at clientname.com, and if yes, which method is better/easy?
You'll want to solve the problem in a completely different way for http://store.clientname.com/ versus http://clientname.com/store.
In the first case, you can serve the web site as a virtual host. Just set up a virtual host called store.clientname.com and set its DocumentRoot to be the existing directory that contains the files for http://mysite.com/clientname. If you have other web server configuration directives that apply to http://mysite.com/clientname then you'll also want to apply those in the virtual host. Finally, the client can set up a CNAME record in DNS for store.clientname.com pointing to your web server.
If you are using Apache, you can also use a default virtual host and mod_rewrite to dynamically translate URLs of the form http://store.{whatever}/ to http://mysite.com/{whatever}/. However, this won't work if you are using HTTPS.
In the second case, you don't want to serve the web site at http://clientname.com/ because the client presumably is already hosting that and presumably http://clientname.com/otherstuff has to continue working and come from their server. So the second case is easier for you because all the work has to be done on the client's web server. But it's simple: they will just have to configure their web server to proxy http://clientname.com/store to http://mysite.com/clientname.
I'm looking to figure out how to replicate the functionality of GoDaddy's PreviewDNS when I'm moving a site to my own web host based in cpanel.
My setup is this: I have a wordpress multiuser site setup with a subdomain install, and a wildcard redirect.
I can't figure out how I can preview the website for an account before the DNS is switched over to my host from the old host.
I've been able to sorta do this by creating an A record of a subdomain over to my host, but I still have the issue of not being able to test the actual files instead of a copy in a subdomain.
I have two IP addresses attached to the server, one to the server itself and all the shared domains, and the other dedicated to the WP multisite.
When I go to http://ipaddress/~username/, I either get an error, or get redirected to the wordpress multisite's default "this site doesn't exist, sign up now to create it" page. I've tried this with both IP addresses with no avail.
Any ideas?
I think what you're trying to do is ensure that everything is working on the new server before having the DNS globally changed for all users? You could change your local computers hosts file to point the domain (and any subdomains you wish to test) over to the new dedicated IP address, which is essentially moving the DNS over for just yourself.
Here's a pretty good guide on how to do it: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/beginner-geek-how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/