Two Site FRUSTRATION!

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Two Site FRUSTRATION!

Ok, I have searched and tried what I've seen, but most of the topics get too personal for me to figure out how to apply it to my problem. Here's the situation:

I started with my personal education site: www.MrShoemaker.com I purchased the domain name from GoDaddy.com. I have the CNAME set up to forward it to my .mac site. It works fine and always works fine.

Now, I purchased another domain name and published it to .Mac. The long URL is: http://web.mac.com/mrshoemaker/EducationWithInnovation/Coming_Soon.html That site works; however, when I do domain forwarding in GoDaddy.com, I get some errors.

If I type www.educationwithinnovation.com I get:
Safari can’t open the page “ http://www.educationwithinnovation.com/” because it can’t find the server “www.educationwithinnovation.com”.

If I type educationwithinnovation.com I get:
To view this page, you need to log in to area “idisk.mac.com” on educationwithinnovation.com:80.

In GoDaddy.com educationwithinnovation.com is forwarded to http://web.mac.com/mrshoemaker/EducationWithInnovation/Coming_Soon.html and there is no CNAME attached to it because I already have that for MrShoemaker.com

I know it's long, but I'm so frustrated at how to fix this! Can anyone help!?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 12, 2008 8:38 AM

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Answer 1

Wyodor

Level 6

19,930 points

Apr 12, 2008 9:43 AM in response to John Shoemaker

I usually start by eliminating the problems.

You created the pages in iWeb. No problems there? No iWeb issue.

You published the pages to dotMac. Pages display in browser? No problem there? No dotMac issue.

You have a personal domain. CNAME is OK? DotMac is OK? No problem there? No dotMac issue.

That leaves GoDaddy.

Check the URL forwarding settings at GoDaddy. Wrong/Correct? GoDaddy issue.
Change the forwarding to www.MrShoemaker.com. Wrong/Correct? GoDaddy issue.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Apr 12, 2008 10:01 AM in response to Wyodor

For my personal Domain the CNAME is fine for MrShoemaker.com. I removed CNAME for educationwithinnovation.com.

In godaddy the forwarding is set to:
Forwarding: (Last Update 4/12/2008)
http://web.mac.com/mrshoemaker/EducationWithInnovation/Coming_Soon.html

I have no problems with Mr. Shoemaker site, the problem i'm having is with Education With Innovation site.

Now, when you type in educationwithinnovation.com without the WWW you get a parked page. adding WWW still gives an error.

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Answer 3

Wyodor

Level 6

19,930 points

Apr 12, 2008 10:07 AM in response to John Shoemaker

The problem is apparently with GoDaddy.

So why raise the problem in this iWeb forum.

Has GoDaddy a forum?

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Answer 4

Apr 12, 2008 10:57 AM in response to John Shoemaker

How long ago did you make the changes? It can take up to 48 hours for them to take effect.
Mireille

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,514 points

Apr 12, 2008 11:36 AM in response to John Shoemaker

In godaddy the forwarding is set to:
Forwarding: (Last Update 4/12/2008)
http://web.mac.com/mrshoemaker/EducationWithInnovation/Coming_Soon.html

If it does not start working, you need to ask Godaddy why not. They are the only ones who can help.

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Answer 6

Apr 12, 2008 1:37 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

When I talked to GoDaddy they were not sure. They say it has something to do with .Mac because when you type in the web address you get the .Mac login.

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Answer 7

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,514 points

Apr 12, 2008 1:45 PM in response to John Shoemaker

They say it has something to do with .Mac because when you type in the web address you get the .Mac login.

How do they explain that when you type in

http://educationwithinnovation.com

you get their parking page instead of a forward?

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Answer 8

Apr 12, 2008 1:55 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

AHHH Touche. Good point. I'll have to give them a call again.

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Answer 9

Apr 12, 2008 6:24 PM in response to John Shoemaker

With godaddy you can get differents answers and different results depending on who is on the line. I had the same problem and the second call gave me a more knowledgeable operator.
Mireille

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Answer 10

Apr 22, 2008 7:35 AM in response to Mireille Green1

Well, someone at godaddy finally figured out the problem.

It was forwarded properly, but in the process of trying to get it to work with my .mac account they had me delete the WWW CNAME. It caused problems when the 2nd site was directed at web.mac.com so we deleted it. The new person told me to add the CNAME www and point it to @, and it works beautifully! Finally!

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