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saukwebsolutions
05-12-2007, 09:18 AM
Ok here is the issue. My website, thesauk.com is not working right if you do not put the www in front of thesauk.com. I am using the blogspot.com on google to host the blog and they have an option where you can set your personal domain name to it, you just have to change the cname "www" to what they say. Well I did that and when you put www in front of url it works great.

But if you just put in http://thesauk.com it does not work and goes to the godaddy landing page.

My question is, how the heck do I fix that so that both will go to the blogger site? Is there an entry I can put into godaddy under the total control area to enable this?

Thanks in advance

gate2vn
05-12-2007, 09:23 AM
you might want to create a A record for yourdomain, point to blogspot.com IP? You will need to check with them about the IP first

ZaxiHosting
05-20-2007, 11:11 AM
When you add the domain to your control panel,how you add it?
(www.domain.com or domain.com ?)
In lxadmin if you added www.domain.com then domain.com wouldnt be accessable
Regards

the_pm
05-20-2007, 11:43 AM
Does Total Control allow you to make htaccess entries?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesauk\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thesauk.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

^^That'll fix all your problems :)

saukwebsolutions
05-20-2007, 05:00 PM
Does Total Control allow you to make htaccess entries?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thesauk\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thesauk.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

^^That'll fix all your problems :)


The domain is pretty much being pointed to the blogger website so I can have my own domain name instead of theirs. The downside is I had to delete the @ record which gives me the ability to reach my site either from www or plain with no www.


The domain is through godaddy so I am not sure if I am able to write something like that. Might do an add on in my cpanel, then redirect it to their address. That should work I would assume, to bad it won't have my domain with it.