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Create dns zone records with php

I want to create a site like .co.cc but you.mydomain.net. I can't seem to make it work. I would ideally like to make a CNAME (and an MX record) when a user submits a form with the desired CNAME (I will tell them how to do that) and the sub domain they want. Thanks in advance for any help ...

Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?

I am setting up a website for a client which I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following: 1) Set up the clients domain at client.mydomain.com 2) Have the client update their dns records for *.client.com to CNAME client.mydomain.com From a prac...

Javascript document.domain clarification

I have a domain foo.com on server bar. I have a subdomain api.foo.com which has a CNAME entry pointing to ghs.google.com (as the subdomain is being used by Google Apps). I am trying to make jQuery.get() calls from search.foo.com to api.foo.com. The calls all seem to go through properly, and the callback function is executed each time, b...

Python Boto S3 to work with Custom Domains in Amazon S3

How do I use the Python Boto library with S3 where the URL's it generate will be my CNAME'd subdomain to the Amazon S3 Server. By default it uses the default format BUCKETNAME.s3.amazonaws.com but S3 supports custom domain aliasing using CNAME (so you can have custom.domain.com -> CNAME -> custom.domain.com.s3.amazonaws.com where "cust...

Hosting software on my server that allows users to point their domain to using CNAME

I am creating software that allows users to either have their own custom subdomain (e.g: theirsubdomain.mydomain.com) or point a CNAME from their own domain to my website address (e.g: theirsubdomain.theirdomain.com). I've contacted my host about this and the first subdomain option is cool. They will set-up a wilcard subdomain script fo...

CNAME Record in .htaccess file: correct format?

In my .htaccess file, I have set up several A records in the following structure: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ RewriteRule ^substring\/substring\/etc?$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/newsubstring\/etc\/" [R=301,L] Is is possible to easily set up a CNAME record in the same fashion and p...

Using your own domain name with Assembla

I'm looking into using Assembla for hosted SVN, is it possible to have the SVN url be a company subdomain instead of using the Assembla domain? ...

How to handle session domains in a cname forward supporting rails saas software

Hi, I have read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/975877/how-to-give-cname-forward-support-to-saas- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/377137/rails-multiple-top-level-domains-and-a-single-session-cookie But I am unable to get a solution for the following setup: A SaaS Webapp in Rails is running under example.com All users have a ...

DNS dig command line tool returns "status: SERVFAIL". should I be worried?

Background: I've setup a site on Squarespace, got a domain on domain.com, used domain.com's DNS manager to create CNAME for squarespace (like they recommend). I changed the nameservers yesterday to slicehost (a failed experiment) and back to domain.com's tonight. Now when I run a dig, I get the following: ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>>...

Setting up custom domain on Heroku with CNAME redirect for www subdomain

I'm using Heroku, and have added a couple custom domains for my app, i.e. myapp.com and www.myapp.com My DNS at GoDaddy has three A records for '@' pointing to three separate Heroku IPs, and a CNAME for the 'www' subdomain that points to proxy.heroku.com What I want to do is redirect any traffic to www.myapp.com to myapp.com. I tried s...

Why wouldn't dns_get_record show CNAMEs when I KNOW they exist?

I'm playing with DNS record lookup in PHP and am running into something confusing. I've looked up 2 different domains each using different hosts and different authoritative name servers. Both of these domains I know for certain have CNAMES. I've looked up DNS records using this online tool: http://network-tools.com/ I've also looked t...

Wildcard CNAME records along with normal CNAME records

Consider the following setup: a.domain.com A IP_A b.domain.com A IP_B *.domain.com CNAME a.domain.com Another.domain.com CNAME b.domain.com With this setup, any WHATEVERRRR.domain will resolve to a.domain.com Another.domain.com will also resolve to a.domain.com [ THIS IS THE PROBLEM ] Is there a wa...

PowerDNS and CNAME to external domain

I'm using PowerDNS (2.9.22) for my clients. Because it can store all data into MySQL database and it's easy for clients to edit their zones as they like. Now I have a problem with CNAMEs: Here are records into MySQL database: +-----------------------+-------+-----------------------+ | localhost.example.com | A | 127.0.0.1 ...

CNAME for top level domain?

Is it possible to set a CNAME record for a toplevel domain like example.com? My ISP says that it's only possible to use CNAME's for subdomains but I've read somewhere else that is should be possible even if not recommended. ...

dns cname redirect url

Hi all, I have two domain names: example1.com example2.com on example1.com i run an webserver in a shared environment on the internet. examle2.com is only a registered domain where i can only manage DNS. examaple1.com points to ip address: 123.123.123.123. the problem is, when i go to: http://123.123.123.123 i do not come on example1....

Why doesn't this Avahi client code work to add a CNAME alias to my Linux machine?

Hi all, I'm trying to write a little program that will add mDNS CNAME aliases to my Linux device, so that it can be accessed via more than one "something.local." domain name. This program's intended function is the same as the avahi-aliases Python script, but in order to avoid a Python dependency, I'm trying to implement it in C++ inst...

what is CNAME really?

I've been reading on AmazonWS that you use cname to use their webservices. Is CNAME when i have a file like this sarah.example.com/image/2001.jpg and then it really is at blablabla.com/mybucket/sarah/image/2001.jpg ? but the web user doesnt know this? he sees the url adress as in example.com? ...

does the complete url stay on a CNAME alias

Hi domain.com A IP www.domain.com CNAME domain.com In this scenario would www.domain.com/foo/bar point to domain.com/foo/bar? Would the url still be www.domain.com/foo/bar Thanks ...