Domain forwarding
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I don’t have a clue about domain forwarding and I really need to understand this if anybody can help. I’ll try to be as clear as possible.
I bought a website from http://www.viewbook.com.
The address is http://www.jonathanjk.viewbook.com and I want to make this http://www.jonathanjk.com
I bought the domain from WordPress, and using the wordpress dashboad entered a new section where you can forward domains. I selected the option to park or forward my domain and then the service said it was done, and it would take up to 48 hours.
I have 2 of things things called NS1.wordpress.com & NS2.wordpress.com. If I want to change them (which I think I do, I need 2 domains from viewbooks I guess, but they’ve not given me anything if this is the right way to go about it).
On my viewbook website, the main address has stayed the same but if I click on my portfolio’s it redirects me to a butchered version of my blog. The URL includes the address of my portfolio as it would do on viewbook. I don’t understand what I’ve done wrong and of course need this sorting out.
Does anybody know what I’m talking about .
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If you want http://www.jonathanjk.com to point to http://www.jonathanjk.viewbook.com, why did you buy a domain from wordpress.com? Buying a domain from wordpress is OK if you want your wordpress.com blog, i.e. jonathanjk.wordpress.com to point to http://www.jonathanjk.com. Is that what you want?
These are the instructions you should have followed:
http://www.viewbook.com/support/Site/CustomDomain
You cannot manipulate CNAME or anything now that jonathanjk.com is registered with wordpress. At least not as far as I am able to tell by by second-guessing the instructions here: -
I see what you did wrong now
Originally your portfolio at viewbook points to
http://jonathanjk.viewbook.com/youth_culture?p=1
That works.
Now that you have made jonathanjk.com point to your wordpress blog, it points to
http://jonathanjk.com/youth_culture?p=1
That does not work, because wordpress.com uses a totally different permalink structure, and ‘youth_culture?p=1’ is not recognized. It will never work.
What you have done is make jonathanjk.wordpress.com into jonathanjk.com. You have not made jonathanjk.viewbook.com into jonathanjk.com.
If you want to bring things back to normal you must unmap/unpark jonathanjk.com from jonathanjk.wordpress.com. Then jonathanjk.com must be transferred to another registrar where you can map the CNAME as per instructions above. And then you can map your wordpress.com blog into blog.jonathanjk.com. That’s my suggestion here. -
husdal: I don’t want “point” my url registered with godaddy to a .wordpress blog, it won’t get indexed, etc… can I use a WordPress infrastruture and do this without hosting the blog myself?
Gail On the Go
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@gail
Firstly, please don’t ‘hijack’ a thread for an unrelated topic, and secondly, I’m not sure I understand what you actually mean? Not indexed? How? What Why? By Google, you mean? Of course it will be indexed if it is on wordpress.com. If you don’t want to host the blog yourself and still use WordPress ‘infrastructure’, you need to use wordpress.com. You can use wordpress.org, but you would still be hosting it somewhere, not necessarily own your own server, but technically it is still referred to as ‘self-hosted’. -
This sounds far to complicated for me.
Does this mean I have to transfer jonathanjk.com to somebody else AND pay for that as well? If thats the case I’ll just get a refund on my viewbook account and put up with ‘viewbook’ in my name.
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That’s exactly what you have to do. Normally, domain name transfers are ‘free’ in the sense that you don’t pay for the time period it is already registered and paid for, but you add the price of the selected additional number of years with the new registrar.
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Once in a while there is a transfer fee, but I don’t think it is outrageous – like $5 or something like that.
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