CNAME forwarding

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  catchtwotwo · Member · Jul 11, 2009 at 10:14 am

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  I’ve spent the last few hours looking for a solution to my current problem. Until recently I’ve been using a Google Apps page to forward visitors to http://www.c22.cc through to my blog at c22blog.wordpress.com. Due to some changes Google are making I wanted to take advantage of the domain feature on wordpress.com to get http://www.c22.cc to go straight to my wordpress blog and be reflected in the address bar. However things are never so simple.

  After researching it seems that the only way to achieve this is to hand over nameserver control of my domain to wordpress ! Am I the only one that can see the limitations of this. I have a variety of cname, txt, and mx records that wordpress won’t support. So here I am stuck between 2 none workable solutions. Has anybody been through this same situation previously, and if so how did you manage to get around the issue.

  Hope to find a solution… things like this shouldn’t be so hard.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 11, 2009 at 10:28 am

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  Whether or not you’re the only one who can see the limitations of this, if Google has changed the way they work to make the former workaround impossible, you’re pretty much stuck. What, exactly, do you need, besides blog redirection?

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  catchtwotwo · Member · Jul 11, 2009 at 10:50 am

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  Googles changes are only the catalyst that has encourged me to move to a paid domain service from wordpress. The limitiations of this are what I’m trying to figure a way around.

  i.e. If I handover control of my nameserver to wordpress.com can I also insert TXT entries to support SPF, have a cname pointer to a dyndns for finding my DSL IP address easily on the run and setup other sub-domains to point to whereever I want them (CNAME etc..)

  A perfect solution would be to have my domain nameserver stay where it is (i.e. under my complete control) but pay for the domain service and setupmy own forwarders. I can’t see why this kind of solution is so hard to achieve.

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  kothea · Member · Jul 11, 2009 at 12:48 pm

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  i think you create a sub domain eg blog.catchtwotwo.com and then give control of that to wordpress.

  I have done same with my website kothea.com which is hosted elsewhere but blog.kothea.com diverts to kothea.wordpress.com and appears as blog.kothea.com and is indexed by google as such.

  i think that is the professional/corporate solution with all the urls as they should be