I have a domain registered with Dynadot and I'd like to use my GoDaddy hosting to build the site to save having to pay out for more hosting. I'd need to set it up on a subdomain e.g. subdomain.example.com, how do I point my Dynadot domain to that subdirectory?
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I just purchased a domain on Dreamhost, let's say foo.com. I already have hosting, let's say at 123.4.56.789, and have setup a directory foo.com which is accessible at 123.4.56.789/foo.com/. I can set the DNS to point foo.com to that IP, but how do I route it to that folder once it's there? My hosting has a really bad cPanel that gives me almost no help. Can I use .htaccess, or something else? What's the best way to accomplish this?  Edit in response to comment(s): It's VPS hosting, so I have access to http.conf and other system files. Also, yes it's Apache.
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I have a VPS that I've installed a Apache Web Server on. What I want to do is forward my own website domains to that server and host those websites' files inside my Apache Web Server. As far as I understand a DNS server is required to manage which domain is hosted where (IP-wise). But what I want to do is host my websites under the same IP address, the one that my web server has. How can I separate those websites' files inside my web server so I don't have to use http://host/foo for www.foo.com and http://host/bar for www.bar.com?
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So I followed this guide to the letter:   I did so for 3 domains.  When I "test" the records and enter: host 64.150.176.81 on my linux machine, it shows me 81.172.150.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 64-150-172-81.dedicated.abac.net.  when it should be showing me 81.176.150.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 64-150-172-81.example.com.  Has anybody encountered a similar problem?  I am hosting with codero, not abac.net btw.
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I tried adding   dns-domain domain.com   to /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. When I run  hostname -d   I get an empty string
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I recently received the following message from Google Webmaster Tools:     Dear site owner or webmaster of ,      [...]      Below are one or more example URLs on your site which may be part of a   phishing attack:            [...]   What I don't understand is that I never had a subdomain repair.gotgenes.com, but visiting it in the web browser gives an actual  My DNS is , which does not list a repair subdomain. My domain name is registered with GoDaddy, and the nameservers are correctly set to NS1.AFRAID.ORG, NS2.AFRAID.ORG, NS3.AFRAID.ORG, and NS4.AFRAID.ORG.  I have the following questions:   Where is repair.gotgenes.com actually registered? How was it registered? What action can I take to have it removed from DNSs? How can I prevent this from happening in the future?   This is pretty disconcerting; I feel like my domain has been hijacked. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Is it allowed in DNS to have a CNAME record that points to another CNAME record?  The reason we need this is that we have a hostname that we want to be looked up to the IP address of our web server computer. We also have another web server computer stand by that could be activated in case the first one would die. In such a case we would quickly need to point the hostname to the IP address of the stand by web server computer.  Unfortunately the hostname resides in a DNS domain where any change would take long time due to manual operation dependent on other sysadmins. But we have another DNS domain where we can perform the changes ourselves quickly. Having CNAME to CNAME chain seems like a possible solution. But is it allowed? Will web browsers understand it?
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I have an two wordpress sites that I would like to host on the same domain. One is already up and running, the other is sitting in waiting.  Can I get the second as a subdomain, or simple within a folder, to run on the same domain (different DB) without converting to multisite?
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Is there a way to host multiple domains with Apache web server without making any changes to the DNS server?  I have full control over the Apache server and no control over the DNS server.
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I have a static IP and hosted my site in this.Working fine. But I want to change the URL name (static IP) to a domain name. I have one domain name already registered.  I have http://xx.xx.xx.xx/ but I want to use something like http://www.mydomain.com  How can I achieve this?
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Just out of curiosity, I have developed a small app analysing and generating sitemaps for a given domain.   Can I tell search engines to look for the sitemap of a given domain on my app using a dynamic url i.e. can you use cross-domain sitemaps.xml without validating you are owner of the destination domain?  For example :   http://example.com/mydomain.com/sitemap.xml
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I was checking out my reverse-DNS entry of my domain the other day which is run from a dedicated server.   I noticed that another person/company had their domain pointing to my server? I have no idea who this company is or why they are pointing their domain at my server IP?  How can I go about stopping this or forcing them to change?
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I have servers hosted at a hosting provider and they also host the DNS records for my domain names. Now I want to add subdomains that are resolved by my own DNS service. So for example:   the hosting provider's name server knows the IP address for econemon.com one of my servers knows the IP address for ftp.econemon.com   Also,   unknown or undefined subdomains should be routed to the same IP as the parent domain on failure of my DNS service, it would be great if the requests all go to the IP address that is associated with econemon.com, but I'm not sure how that should work.   Now, I've read through the Wikipedia articles on DNS to dust off my knowledge, but the part that leaves me confused is: how does a client know which server to ask for the IP address for ftp.econemon.com? Does it get that information from the hoster? If so, do I have to register the subdomain there (and what would I need my name server for then)?
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I just bought a  VPS hosting plan and was following this  to set up. In the "Setting the Hostname" section and "Update /etc/hosts " section, it says the FQDN/hostname to be set here does not need to be related with the websites I am about to host, which makes me confused.  I did my own research by reading lots of articles but am still not very sure what role the hostname/FQDN is playing in my web hosting business. Here are some basic facts I've managed to find out, feel free to correct me if anything wrong:   FQDN must be something like xxx.somedomain.com, if "xxx." is omitted then it is not a FQDN. the xxx, which I think could be loosely called a subdomain, can also be referred to as "hostname", according to . In my local machine, by adding the following line to the hosts file  63.117.14.58 www.yahoo.com whatever   every network requests for "www.yahoo.com" or "whatever" will be redirected to IP address 63.117.14.58(which is google.com's IP). It is a way to block unwanted sites in local machine.  Now the tutorial suggests adding this line to the "hosts" file in my server  12.34.56.78(//my server's IP) myhostname.anything.com myhostname   It mentions that in the above line, domain name may or may not be the domain I am about to host, but the hostname should be the one I have already set during previous steps. My questions are:  1)Based on Facts#3, I think this line redirects any requests on the server for myhostname.anything.com or myhostname to my IP address, but what does this mean? Shouldn't any request for myhostname.anything.com from a user's computer already be translated to a certain IP address(Be it or not my IP address)? Why do I have to redirect it on my server?  My understanding about how a HTTP request works is when user type in the domain name into the browser, the browser will contact the domain server, and the domain server will direct it to a DNS server based on the domain's DNS record, and then the DNS server will resolve the IP address, and then browser fetch data from that IP address. This procedure of my understanding seems having nothing to do with the "hosts" file on my server.  2) A.In regards of the FQDN, why the hostname has to be same with the hostname I set on my server and the domain name doesn't?   B.What will happen if I do set a different hostname here?   C.And what is the purpose to set or not set my domain name as the FQDN here?   D.And what will happen if I only set a FQDN but not the hostname? like this  12.34.56.78(//my server's IP) myhostname.anything.com   Lots of questions but I believe the answers to some of them are overlapped, and overall I think the big question is "What part does setting hostname/editting hosts file play in my webhosting business?"   Thank you for your time in advance.
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Getting the subdomain from a URL sounds easy at first.  http://www.domain.example   Scan for the first period then return whatever came after the "http://" ...  Then you remember  http://super.duper.domain.example   Oh. So then you think, okay, find the last period, go back a word and get everything before!   Then you remember  http://super.duper.domain.co.uk   And you're back to square one. Anyone have any great ideas besides storing a list of all TLDs?
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I have a website with DNS pointing to my hosting account at ns1.a.com and ns2.a.com  I want to switch a hosting account (to ns1.b.com and ns2.b.com).   However if I simply change the DNS the site will be inaccessible until the change is complete, is there anyway to change host for a website without suffering from downtime?
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I am working with a client who already has a custom e-commerce website set up at their own domain e.g. example.com  We want to host their WordPress blog at a subdirectory of their domain e.g. example.com/blog Due to security issues we cannot host WordPress on the same server as the rest of their site.  We have set up a separate server which will host the WordPress blog, and given it a temporary subdomain URL.  How do we make it so that example.com/blog will serve the Wordpress site from our server? We don't want a redirect, we want it to appear as if all of the blog is hosted within the '/blog' subdirectory. What URLs do we put in the WordPress database? How should they be redirecting their subdirectory?  I know people recommend using a subdomain (this is what we currently have), but the client has specifically requested using a subdirectory for better SEO performance.
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I just updated the DNS record (ns1, ns2, ns3.myhostingcompany.com) for a site I've got hosted, but I still get the domain registrar parking page.  I'd like to see if the problem is Ubuntu's cached DNS records. Is there a way to clear Ubuntu's DNS cache? (if such a thing exists?)