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Post by weheartcharice June 2nd 2012, 2:53 pm

Hello everyone,

We have purchased our custom domain from namecheap. We think we have set it up correctly by following the directions here:

https://help.forumotion.com/t7021-redirect-an-extern-domain-name-that-you-own-to-your-board

Unfortunately, when we get to the validation portion in the administration panel, we get this error.

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Here is how we currently have it set it up in our domain account.

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We're total newbies to this so any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!


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Post by Shadow June 4th 2012, 10:05 am

Hello,

I'll try to help as best I can.

What kind of choice do you have in the dropdown menu "record type" ?
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Post by weheartcharice June 4th 2012, 11:16 am

Here are the record types:

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Post by Shadow June 4th 2012, 11:48 am

Have you tried to select CNAME (Alias) ?
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Post by weheartcharice June 4th 2012, 11:54 am

I tried doing that for the "@" and "www" host names and it gave us this error:

Improper records were NOT saved!
There were issues with some records and they were either set to default or completely removed. Please review the issues below and update again appropriately.
INVALID_ADDR: 'http://weheartcharice.forumotion.com' should not be an IP/ URL for CNAME record. (host name: @)
INVALID_ADDR: 'http://weheartcharice.forumotion.com' should not be an IP/ URL for CNAME record. (host name: www)
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Post by Shadow June 4th 2012, 12:12 pm

Try to remove the "http://" Wink
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Post by weheartcharice June 5th 2012, 6:30 am

Tried it and got the same error when we tried to validate in the admin panel.
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Post by Shadow June 5th 2012, 11:06 am

OK, please try to remove all your current configuration and configure just your CNAME to see what's happening.

If you get an error message, please provide a screenshot Wink
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Post by weheartcharice June 6th 2012, 11:41 pm

Tried the following variations with no luck Sad

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before hitting save
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Post by Shadow June 7th 2012, 11:08 am

Hello,

Try this configuration without the "http://"

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Post by weheartcharice June 7th 2012, 1:54 pm

That was #5. It didn't work. Sad

Leeloo wrote:Hello,

Try this configuration without the "http://"

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Post by Shadow June 7th 2012, 2:02 pm

Leeloo wrote:Hello,

Try this configuration without the "http://"

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You have to delete the "http://" in the forum's URL.
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Post by weheartcharice June 8th 2012, 12:12 am

So we removed the http:// like so
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Went to forumotion admin panel and got this both times entering www.weheartcharice.com and weheartcharice.com
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Post by Shadow June 8th 2012, 9:51 am

scratch Are you sure you did the good operation ? Because I didn't get this error when I configured your personalized domain name in your admin panel.

Now it's OK, your CNAME configuration is correct and the domain name www.weheartcharice.com redirects to your forum's URL.

Thanks !
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Post by weheartcharice June 8th 2012, 2:54 pm

Leeloo wrote: scratch Are you sure you did the good operation ? Because I didn't get this error when I configured your personalized domain name in your admin panel.

Now it's OK, your CNAME configuration is correct and the domain name www.weheartcharice.com redirects to your forum's URL.

Thanks !

Thanks, Leeloo! You've been a big help. :wouhou:

Just one more question. Now that we have the custom domain in place, is it worth resubmitting our site to google per https://help.forumotion.com/t9488-google-webmaster-tools, or will the bot automatically pick it up?
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Post by Darren1 June 8th 2012, 2:56 pm

Hi,

Glad to see your domains now working Very Happy
Yes it's worth submitting to Google Webmaster, as it gives you tools that you won't have access to otherwise. Bots will always detect any domain changes in a short period of time Wink
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Post by weheartcharice June 8th 2012, 11:32 pm

Darren1 wrote:Hi,

Glad to see your domains now working Very Happy
Yes it's worth submitting to Google Webmaster, as it gives you tools that you won't have access to otherwise. Bots will always detect any domain changes in a short period of time Wink

We actually submitted it already when we didn't have the custom domain yet (weheartcharice.forumotion.com). I went ahead and submitted it again today with the custom domain (weheartcharice.com). I will just delete the first one in a couple of days or so if it ends up being too confusing in the search engine.

Anyways, thanks for all your help! I will go ahead and mark this thread as SOLVED. Hello
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Post by Darren1 June 8th 2012, 11:36 pm

If you change the address in your first one, that'd work fine as well and would have the records still Wink

Glad to have helped out Smile
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