Directi Cname problems. Please help me.

[dstemper]

I am having a serious problem trying to get the CName thingie to point my domain to the correct spot. I am using DirectI through WHMCS reseller program, Now I might be overcomplicating this but I guess I do something wrong.

 

Where is what I need to do, I need my domain http://www.cardealeradmin.com point to an Ip Address. I believe i followed all the steps to do it correctly but it still doesn't work. Does anyone have any idea that has done this successfully?

TIA

[netearth]

Hi DSTemper,

 

I actually walked a WHMCS user through this last night fr NetEarth One, so Ill add this here for when people search for it.

 

Quick and dirty way of doing it (you may have to make some changes as these are the NetearthOne settings):

 

1 register domain name you want to point or use as your supersite

2 The nameservers for the above domain need to be yours (or servers that you have complete DNS control over) as you will be changing dns info on them

3 Create domain on your hosting servers, or just create DNS either will do

4 Remove the A RECORD for WWW from the dns server (of the domain 1 above)

5 Create a CNAME RECORD for the new domain, so http://WWW.MYDOMAINNAME.COM IN CNAME YOURRESELLERID.supersite.myorderbox.com.

6 Create an A record for something like manage for manage IN A 67.15.47.4 this then allows people to access manage.MYDOMAINNAME.COM (as in 1 above)

7 Create an A RECORD for something like reseller (if you want resellers), reseller IN A 67.15.184.29

8 Now the updates to RC or NE1:

Login to your reseller control panel (ie NE1 it is hXXp://reseller.netearthone.com/reseller.php?action=login)

Click Settings

Click Supersite and PartnerSite URL

SuperSite URL FIELD Box 1, 3. Is the name used in 5 above (ie. http://www.mydomainname.com) NOW CLICK UPDATE at bottom of this box

PartnerSite URL FIELD Box 2, 3. Is the name used in 7 above (ie. reseller.mydomainname.com) NOW CLICK UPDATE at bottom of this box

Management URL FIELD Box 3, 3. Is the name used in 6 above (ie. manage.mydomainname.com) NOW CLICK UPDATE at bottom of this box

 

Thats about it, the quick and dirty way of doing it.

 

You still have all your email for that domain available if you created a hosting account as per 3 above and have just diverted all of your web requests to the supersite and partnersite.

 

Hey presto.

 

Kind regards,

Chris

 

 

 

Helpfull Knowledgebase article:

hxxp://manage.netearthone.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/cat133.html

[dstemper]

Ok thats good to know.

 

Basically what I did was register a domain with directi. I want to point it to another website on another IP. I actually achieved the cardealeradmin.com point, but when heading to http://www.cardealeradmin.com It doesn't work. Do I set another A record for that also? And if I do, do I need to have a cname?

 

Btw thanks a ton for the help.

[netearth]

Ok thats good to know.

 

Basically what I did was register a domain with directi. I want to point it to another website on another IP. I actually achieved the cardealeradmin.com point, but when heading to http://www.cardealeradmin.com It doesn't work. Do I set another A record for that also? And if I do, do I need to have a cname?

 

Btw thanks a ton for the help.

 

Here is a screen shot from one of our resellers :

 

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?p=53789#post53789

 

Kind regards,

Chris

[dstemper]

Ok well mine looks totally different for Directi, I did figure it out but it was a strange way of fixing the problem as i Didn't even need to use cname. It was all on the A records.