Domain forwarding

[spaceman]

I'm a n00b. I admit it.

In my haste to move my domain hosting (away from SOPA apologists GoDaddy), I FAILED to take careful note of settings. So when I came to forward my little domain, ragequitblog.com to my HDA hosted Wordpress blog. I ended up forwarding the domain to spaceman.yourhda.com, which feels like a cludge...and I can't login to administer the site (yes...I do know my password, honest)...after the forward the domain appears as "http://spaceman.yourhda.com/" which is not what I had with whatever I did at GoDaddy... /faceplam

What have I done wrong, what is the correct thing to do...is it even domain forwarding I need?

Cheers guys.

[bigfoot65]

At the moment, you cannot control the domain name with Amahi provided DynamicDNS. It will always show as username.yourhda.com.

We are working on adding a feature to Fedora 16 to allow subdomains for apps, but it is far from finished.

[spaceman]

Thanks for the reply man...but I'm not sure I articulated the issue correctly. I probably didn't forward my domain to spaceman.youhda.com originally - I most likely forwarded it to my external ip, or at least so every page was listed as a page within my domain and the absolute link in Wordpress worked correctly. This still sounds confused even to my ears.

My issue is not that the address bar shows spaceman.yourhda.com, but that this is preventing me from logging into Site Admin since transferring.

[bigfoot65]

Yea, guess I misunderstood. Did you set a domain in Wordpress? Maybe that is the cause. I think you can configure it to be domain specific.

It could be there is something else going on here too. Maybe a firewall or something with the WordPress configuration. I am not quite sure how I can help with this one. Maybe check some log files for help in sorting this one out.

[spaceman]

OK can we take it right back to first principles (which I obviously don't understand)? Let's start by saying that my Wordpress blog was working fine before a) I changed hosts from (SOPA loving) GoDaddy to CheapNames and b) I was hacked and had to rebuild the blog...which was far from easy and now I know some more about Wordpress and SQL.

I followed this guide to the letter. Then I went back and undid it all and tried all over again. Then I got punchy and began trying different stuff. Then I went back and stepped through the guide diligently (this is how I normally work).

I double checked that my router and HDA's firewall were forwarding port 80 to the HDA.

I edited /etc/httpd/conf.d/10##-wordpress.conf to look like this:

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<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName wordpress ServerAlias *username*.*myhda*.com ServerAlias wordpress.*myhda*.com ServerAlias ragequitblog.com DocumentRoot /var/hda/web-apps/wordpress/html <Directory "/var/hda/web-apps/wordpress/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI ...

then I reloaded the web service: service httpd reload

My domain (hosted by CheapNames) is ragequitblog.com (as you can see in my 10##-wordpress.conf file above).

This is the point where the instructions do not map perfectly with the CheapNames website. So I'm going to try to explain what I have done in perfect detail. I should add that I have been trying other combinations of procedures to make this work.


This is the CheapNames account page. I'm going to select Domains / Domain Manager from the menu on the left. Now I have tried selecting my domain, shown there, and clicking Forward this offers a drop down menu, choices are remarkably Forward Domain or Forward subdomain. I selected Forward Domain and tried several things in the field here, for example my external IP address, *username*.yourhda.com, wordpress.*myhda*.com...all with same result: the login page for my HDA dashboard that you can see in the preview in the forwarding box screenshot below.


As this seemed to be a deviation from the instructions I removed the forwarding.


I then went to the Domain Manager and clicked Set Nameservers (as bellow).



I clicked the radio button for I want to forward my domain and clicked OK (as shown below).

Then I went to the DNS Manager (above) and selected Edit Zone (below).

Under the Heading A(Host) I selected the Points to field and entered my external IP address. I then clicked Save Zone File.

I've given my changes 48 hours just to be sure but I am growing really tired of seeing the Amahi Dashboard login prompt. What do I have to do to have the world see my blog (like before)?

Thanks for all your help (sorry about all the screenshots).

[spaceman]

Seriously guys, I'm tearing out my hair. I'm sure the issue must be at the HDA as domain is being forward to it. I'm getting depressed just seeing:


Any suggestions would be very welcome. Meanwhile I am trying trying to fix this myself.