I have my public site ready to go live, but need to know the DNS settings to switch it over to groupanizer. Setting my www record to pvc.groupanizer.com causes www.mydomain.com to go to an "Apache is working on your cpanel" page. Should I have used a different setting?
Also, can I set the a record to an IP address so that mydomain.com works in addition to www.mydomain.com?
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I also am ready to go live with the public part of our groupanizer site but don't know what to do. I am a novice on domain names as I had 1&1 obtain the name back in 2004 when I set up our site on their server. Now I want to cancel their service and have our www.bigsunchorus.org point to our new groupanizer site. I also don't know if we have to start renewing the domain name.
I have used net objects fusion software to design the original site, so have no problem in deleting all the pages.
I know that I have to let Tom know about the redirection, but that would be the last thing.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Joel Swanson
Webmaster Big Sun Chorus
Ocala, FL
http://bigsunchorus.groupanizer.com
Joel,
You will still need a domain registrar after switching to Groupanizer. You might be able to keep 1&1 and switch to a cheaper package of just registration and email without hosting or switch to someone else. I use GoDaddy because they are cheap and have a good control panel. Your domain expires in April, so you'll need to do something either way. Once Tom sets things up on the Groupanizer side, you will need to log into 1&1 and point the domain to Groupanizer's servers.
Tom Nisbet
Webmaster - Heart of Maryland Chorus
www.HeartOfMaryland.org
tom27@HeartOfMaryland.org
Thanks Tom
Your advice and suggested registration ideas has helped me a lot in understanding just what I need to do. Will not be done until after Feb 14 for obvious reasons.
Joel Swanson
Webmaster Big Sun Chorus
Ocala, FL
http://bigsunchorus.groupanizer.com
Good idea. You will probably have a small outage during the switchover while you and Tom get both systems in sync and the changes propagate through the DNS servers.
Tom Nisbet
Webmaster - Heart of Maryland Chorus
www.HeartOfMaryland.org
tom27@HeartOfMaryland.org
Tom,
Did a post or link get deleted? I noticed that your site url stays www.HeartOfMaryland.org with the groupanizer path appended. What did you set at your registrar (cname records?) and did you have to do anything else to get that to work?
Thanks!
Jordan Truesdell
VP - Music & Performance
Virginia Gentlemen
Roanoke, Virginia
Tom,
I'm using the service my chorus has to change the records, so in addition to being mostly innocent of proper syntax, I'm also on an unfamiliar interface.
Anyway, with the changes above, the new records list my actual domain (vagents.org) in place of the @ symbol. At this point I can ping vagents.org and it returns 72.251.217.164, but if I try to ping www.vagents.org it is resolving to 8.15.7.117
Does this sound at all familiar? Should I replace the @ (vagents.org) with the full alias www.vagents.org. in the A record instead?
***UPDATE*** after checking with my provider, they indicated that using the @ in the CNAME alias list was incorrect, and added www (just www, not the full name) to the A record and now it works!
(and how annoying is it that I still have to enter a captcha to post, even when logged it?)
Jordan Truesdell
VP - Music & Performance
Virginia Gentlemen
Roanoke, Virginia
Thanks! I'm waiting for Tom M. to get a few items "fixed" and upgraded on our site before switching (though we're just a couple of weeks from our current provider plan going dark so hopefully it's soon!).
Will our site still be accessible through the groupanizer domain? If so I'll probably just give you a heads up and go change the records. Nobody really visits the old site anymore, so changeover isn't really a hour-critical function.
Jordan Truesdell
VP - Music & Performance
Virginia Gentlemen
Roanoke, Virginia
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