I’ve paid for a subdomain upgrade and I can’t get it to work

• 

  melissamcmahon · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 5:48 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I had this working previously and now it’s not working for some reason.

  subdomain name: blog.melissa-mcmahon.com
  I’ve changed the DNS settings to CNAME melissamcmahon.wordpress.com (which is currently my wordpress site). Can anyone see what I’m doing wrong?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  hewsut · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 5:58 pm

  • Copy link

  It looks like it’s setup correctly. If you want blog.melissa-mcmahon.com to be the URL that shows up, you’ll want to set it primary via the Settings->Domains page.

• 

  melissamcmahon · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 6:36 pm

  • Copy link

  http://blog.melissa-mcmahon.com/

  thats the problem. It doesnt’ work, which is why I’ve left it on melissamcmahon.wordpress.com for now….

• 

  hewsut · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 6:51 pm

  • Copy link

  It works fine for me from where I am on the web. :) Try clearing your browser’s cache and/or refreshing your browser.

  How long ago did you setup the CNAME? It can take up to 72 hours for domain name changes to fully take effect on the internet. Your ISP may be caching out of date information which will simply take time to clear out.

• 

  melissamcmahon · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 8:14 pm

  • Copy link

  Thanks! it seems to be working now. Seems like it just took a while for the CNAME to take effect as you said.

  Thanks!
  m