How to make an Earthlink hosted domain redirect to .mac website

Hi, I am new to mac. I have a domain name with Earthlink and using iweb published a new site to .mac but I cannot get the domain hosted at Earthlink to direct to the mac site. Safari says it cannot find the server. What is it that I am not doing? is Earthlink the problem? I'll change if needed.
Thanks.
Redcamel

Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 24, 2007 2:08 PM

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Dec 25, 2007 3:50 AM in response to Redcamel

How to redirect:

Open text edit, copy/paste this code + save as html then upload to the root of your Earthlink domain server. From EL you can also try forwarding your URL to .mac using a URL forwarding feature commonly found on domain name service providers. Make sure to change the .mac username in the highlighted code to your .mac username if you wish to go the redirect route.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.web.mac.com/UserName/">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Dec 26, 2007 8:17 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi, thanks for your reply.

The domain name is redcamelproductions.com my mac user name is eelliott1020 .
I have tried to set the cname at Earthlink per mac instructions about setting domain names to point to the mac address of web.mac.com/eelliott1020 It just doesn't go. I put web.mac.com as the alia and -it asks for destination domain---I may have put the wrong thing there--should it be web.mac.com or redcamelproductions.com ? Have tried simple repoint on Earthlink but I have been told that won't work because it only works to a dedicated domain and a webstite on mac is actually a subdomain. I don't know about that. I freely admit this is new terrain for me, and other than trying to figure this out, my switch from pc to mac has been challenging but enjoyable. My use of Earthlink is a hold over --had secured the domain name but had not set up a site until I used iweb. if I should switch to another domain hosting party, please advise to who.
A thousand thank you's for your help.
Redcamel

Dec 26, 2007 8:46 AM in response to Redcamel

I have tried to set the cname at Earthlink per mac instructions about setting domain names to point to the mac address of web.mac.com/eelliott1020


You point the www CNAME to web.mac.com



I put web.mac.com as the alia and -it asks for destination domain---I may have put the wrong thing there--should it be web.mac.com or redcamelproductions.com ?


The destination has to be web.mac.com

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