Creating a Personal Domain with CName?

I think I figured it out I just created another CName that if I go to to pseudo-studios.com it forwards me to wwww.pseudo-studios.com/blah blah... It just doesn't show the www. So if anyone else has that problem this is the answer...

James

Soundboy, I am hoping this well be the answer for me as well. To be clear, you didn't have to put anything in the "A" name field? Just the two CNAMEs, one with forwarding to the other?

How about this:

After getting everything working I'm expecing my URL to look like this:

http://www.jimmurphyweb.com

and now I get this:

http://www.jimmurphyweb.com/JimMurphyWeb/Blog/Blog.html

Question is: how do you get rid of the rest of that stuff at the end?

You can't unless you do forwarding with masking.

Soundboy,

How do you make a "blank" cname registry? I have the www one but how do you make on in GoDaddy with nothing in it so an address without www works?

Thank you! It worked! The guy with whom I spoke at GoDaddy didn't direct me correctly, hence I kept getting a "parked at..." page.

The only thing I'm wondering is that I had to delete two records from GoDaddy's already-created "www" CNAME. But, now I'll just create that site in iWeb, since I really haven't made that site yet, anyway, and I think it'll work.

Thank you so much!

Cathy

you could try adding the code found here:

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/help/sutra34133.html

complements of mygigahurts

James,

Just realize that if you do this and your email is tied into your domain (you@yourdomain.com) your email will be bounced. I know I tried this solution of creating another www record and it bounced all my email too. It worked to just type in mydomain.com, no www., but by fwding the domain like that it loses all your domain based email too. At least that is how it works with GoDaddy.

But if you don't have your email tied up with your domain - it works and is a great solution.

I just tell everyone to type www now. I didn't like losing all my email by surprise.

Best, C

macmurphy66,

You can also shorten your address easily by renaming your site in iWeb.

So your Jim MurphyWeb would be renamed JM and that would shorten your url considerably by a dozen or so characters. You can even shorten it more by naming your site somthing like _

But I think that is a bit lame.

Best, C

See http://georgefromphilly.com//home/Entries/2007/8/9_Configuring_iWeb_andgoDaddy.html