Personal Domain, CNAME, Network Solutions

Hello,
I just bought a domain name at Network Solutions. I tried to follow the iWeb instructions to point to the domain. I went out to Network Solutions manage tool and tried to set the "CNAME" to "web.mac.com" as instructed in your wizard tool and in help documents under support. Network Solutions requires and IP address and not a domain name for their CNAME entries.
Has anyone set up a personal domain with iWeb to work with a Network Solutions managed domain?

Go to this forum and type Network Solutions into the Search box.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1163

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Personal Domain and Network Solutions

Does anyone out there have a .Mac Personal Domain site working where Network Solutions is the Registrar? If so, how did you handle the CNAME aliasing?

For anyone else having this problem it appears that you must:
1. In the Network Solutions Advanced DNS Manager, first eliminate the numerical IP address for 'Host' entry 'www'. When you first look at this entry it will have a note something to the effect that "Currently points to the "Under Construction" page.
2. Replace the Alias 'CNAME' with the entry 'www' then enter your Domain Name (i.e. mypersonaldomain.com) in the 'Other Host' box.
I may be wrong on this but you may need to allow a period of several hours between this two steps.

IWeb '08 Personal Domain Name Network Solutions

This is maddening and Network Solutions is no help. I have a domain name, say <wxyz.com>, registered with Network Solutions. The CNAME page has 3 columns of fields: "Alias" field; "Refers to Host Name" with Radio Button w/popup menu including "www"; radio button w/Other Host field.
I have tried
1. web.mac.com; www; blank
2 web; blank; mac.com (recommended by network solutions staff)
and neither work.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Sorry to answer my own question but I called Network Solutions again and got a great tech who knew what she was doing and solved my problem. She said they are now familiar with pointing a registered domain name to web.mac.com so the best is to call and ask them to do it--1-866-908-1240.
For the curious, here's what she did:
1. Deleted all "A" records, essentially the IP addresses that point to Network Solutions "Under Construction" web page, some with ads.
2. She added 2 aliases (CNAME Records) for the three fields as:
a. *; blank; web.mac.com
b. www; blank; web.mac.com
Step 1. allowed entering www in the Alias field which I couldn't before and became totally confused.

Iweb, personal domain, CNAME problems

Hi,
We have the following problem, no assistance being provided from .dotmac (2 days, 3 days - 2 requests).
Symptoms:
we have followed apple's instructions:
1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.xxx.com.au)
2) Ensuring that we have created a CNAME alias (www.xxx.com.au -> web.mac.com)
3) Associating the name www.xxx.com.au as our personal domain
4) Allowed more than 48 hrs
5) Publishing to the website which works okay (ww.xxx.com.au via the latest release of iWeb which supports personal domains). (Iweb shows [email protected] www.xxx.com.au at the bottom of the window). Files are in subdirectory idisk web/Sites/XXX.
All that has happened so far is that when you type in www.xxx.com.au in a browser window, you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
More interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check the account settings -> personal domain you see www.xxx.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
Further interesting effects occur when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages (ie "About Us" redirects to http://www.xxx.com.au/XXX/About_Us.html and then to http://www.mac.com/account_error.html. (Apples "I'm sorry page").
DNS details below:
Host Record type Value
xx.yy.aaa.aaa / 24 PTR xxx.com.au.
ftp.xxx.com.au. CNAME xxx.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. NS ns.xxx.com.au.
xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. MX(10) mail.xxx.com.au.
ns.xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
webmail.mpi.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
www.xxx.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.
Can anyone assist us?
Thanks

Symptoms:
we have followed apple's instructions:
1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.mpi.com.au)
2) Ensuring that we have created a CNAME alias (www.mpi.com.au -> web.mac.com)
3) Associating the name www.mpi.com.au as our personal domain
4) Allowed more than 48 hrs
5) Publishing to the website which works okay (ww.mpi.com.au via the latest release of iWeb which supports personal domains). (Iweb shows [email protected] www.mpi.com.au at the bottom of the window). Files are in subdirectory idisk web/Sites/MPI.
All that has happened so far is that when you type in www.mpi.com.au in a browser window, you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
More interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check the account settings -> personal domain you see www.mpi.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
Further interesting effects occur when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages (ie "About Us" redirects to http://www.mpi.com.au/MPI/About_Us.html and then to http://www.mac.com/account_error.html. (Apples "I'm sorry page").
DNS details below:
Host Record type Value
64.13.248.146/24 PTR mpi.com.au.
ftp.mpi.com.au. CNAME mpi.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. NS ns.mpi.com.au.
mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. MX(10) mail.mpi.com.au.
ns.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
webmail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
www.mpi.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.

Personal Domain Login

I signed up for a personal domain under my .Mac account and it was successful.
However, when I got to the url, a login/password request box pops up. I figured
that it would use the same login / password as my .mac account but it doesn't.
Furthermore, I'd rather there wasn't any log in so I can use the site with iWeb to share
photos, blogs, etc.
Suggestions anyone? Thanks in advance.
Marston

Hi Tom, and Happy New Year too !
I ended up calling the Domain provider (Network Solutions) back, and got a different tech, who explained that the settings were incorrect for domain name forwarding, even though the CNAME was correct.
After the 3 hours I was told it would take for the new settings to kick in, I tried to access my webpage, but this time I couldn't even get the Network Solutions "Under Construction" page.
So, I finally got ticked, logged in to my NS account, and went in and manually editted the DNS server settings, which I was very very reluctant to do, even then. I'm glad I did though, because I found that in "correcting" the settings, the tech eliminated the CNAME altogether.
I put the CNAME "web.mac.com" back in, saved the change, logged out and waited three hours, and I now have my website.
The moral of the story: Don't always trust the techs to do the right thing, especially if they have funny accents......!

Returning multiple sites from personal domain to iweb domain

I have a family web site that I've posted to my .mac account. I've been asked to update another web site for a preschool that had been created previously by another mac user. She emailed me the domain and I was able to open it and make edits. I created two separate folders to keep the domain files separate. A few problems have happened since:
First, I can still access my personal account in both iweb and via the internet, but the address that appears at the bottom of the page is now the preschool address. I want this account to remain hosted on my imac account.
Secondly, for the preschool, the site should be hosted on personal domain. The site does show up on the bottom of that site (the same now as my personal one). What I would like it to post a temporary version of the password protected revised site on my .mac account until I am ready to replace the one that is currently up.
So, I guess my biggest question for the moment is how do I return both sites to the .mac host until I am ready to upload one of them onto the preschool personal domain?
When I go to the iweb folder in my idisk I can not move the folders containing the separate sites.
I have read other posts regarding multiple domains and they have not fully addressed this issue.
Many thanks, Emily.

Was the other mac user using the personal domain (CName) feature of iWeb?
Were you using it as well with your family site?
This might be the problem, as you can only use the personal domain feature with one iWeb site.

Cname settings help needed for a Network Solutions Personal Domain

Hi-
I've purchased a personal domain name from Network Solutions. I've followed the instructions that Apple has given me, and have specified "web.mac.com" as the alias name, as well as specifying "www" in the drop down box in the next field to the right of the alias field. I've also set up my personal domain name on the Apple side. However, after 48 hours, I'm still seeing the "site under construction page" from Network Solutions when I go to view my personal domain. I confirmed on the Apple side that iWeb was now using my personal domain name, and I was also able to confirm that my domain name was/is pointing to web.mac.com. What am I doing wrong? Does anybody out there with a Network Solutions domain name have any experience with this?

Did you ever get an answer on this?

Creating a CNAME on Network Solutions

I am trying to create my first website with iWeb on me.com using a Domain Name I created at Network Solutions. And of course the instructions for iWeb don't quite match the forms at Network Solutions. I found how to create a personal domain name on my me.com account. It tells me to define web.me.com as the CNAME at my regristar's website. I found the account manager tool for CNAMEs at Network Solutions and am given two boxes to fill out: "alias" and "other host" The "other host" box has a radio button. Then there is another box with a radio button labeled "Refers to Host Name" and there are two choices: "www" or "@(none). I can check either the "Refers to Host Name" radio button or the "Other Host". I am guessing that I should check "Other host" and that is where I enter "web.me.com". Can some confirm?

The alias field should have the 'www' and the '@' symbols with the CNAME being set for both that then forwards to your host web.me.com.
The @ represents your domain name which is http://domain.com and then the www represents your sub domain which is http://www.domain.com. For both these options to work both 'www' and '@' need to have CNAME's forwarded to web.me.com.
If there is no option to set a CNAME for both of these - (there should be though), then you need to set the CNAME for one, possibly the www and then use web forwarding to forward the @ to the www.
Set it up like this and see what happens.

Personal Domain name, CName & netbenefit - losing hope

True I'm new to this, and before you ask I have followed the routine in the mobileme instructions.
I've built a couple of Pages which I've 'published' through Iweb to my mobileme account, I had already brought my self a domain name from Netbenefit, and since registered this with mobileme.
so mobile me lists me as @www.parsleyswarren.org
Cname on Netbenefit is:
Host = web.me.com.
Goes to = web.me.com.
the settings send me to a generic Netbenefit page.
My partner has a website where she uses web forwarding instead of the Cname. It works, but when I use webforwarding I get a page from my service provider that says that web.me.com can not be found.
Any clues ? a solution would be nice (Apple have told me to start again - and again, Whilst Netbenifit have been very quiet). I'm sure it's simple but a week of this is not letting me see this with any clarity.

Okay, firstly, if you registered your domain name through Netbenefit, then Netbenefit is your domain name registrar. MobileMe has nothing to do with this and has not registered your domain name - you just have it set up in the personal domain name settings in your MobileMe account and that is all. MobileMe is just the host for your website.
So to set up the CNAME forwarding, your domain name itself which is your alias needs to be forwarded to web.me.com which is your host.
Under the DNS settings it should be something like www, CNAME, web.me.com and @, CNAME, web.me.com. The www is your sub domain which you are forwarding with @ representing your domain name itself, so you would have to set up a new CNAME for both.
Don't use web forwarding and CNAME at the same time, you need to use either one or the other.
If you want to use web forwarding, then you need to go to the web forwarding section of your domain name provider and forward your domain name either masked or unmasked to web.me.com/username/sitename. You need to use more here than just the web.me.com which is only used for CNAME forwarding.

IWEB, CNAME, Personal domain name

If anyone could provide some advice it would be very much appreciated - Tom thanks for you earlier help. I attach the latest email to Apple Support.
Hi Arthur, (The Apple Support Consultant)
We still have the same problems, even after entirely deleting all websites, idisks etc and carrying out the steps you asked (even though this is what we had already explained to you that we had done!). To requalify we have:
a) Ensured that we have a proper domain name (www.mpi.com.au)
b) Ensured that we have created a CNAME alias (www.mpi.com.au -> web.mac.com)
c) Associating the name www.mpi.com.au as our personal domain
d) Allowed more than 48 hrs
e) no case sensitivities
f) publish to site WITHOUT registering www.mpi.com.au to dotmac, works perfectly (ie from web with http://web.mac.com/mpimpi/Sites/index.html and when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages work properly.
g) more interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) after registering www.mpi.com.au as our personal domain and republish whole site and check the account settings personal domain you see www.mpi.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
h) Further interesting effects occur when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages (ie "About Us" redirects to http://www.mpi.com.au/Sites/About_Us.html) and then to http://www.mac.com/account_error.html. (Apples I'm Sorry - Our records show that the account you're attempting to connect to either does not exist or is currently inactive page).
i) the account is paid for and appears to be active!
DNS entries:
Host Record type Value
64.13.248.146/24 PTR mpi.com.au.
ftp.mpi.com.au. CNAME mpi.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. NS ns.mpi.com.au.
mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. MX(10) mail.mpi.com.au.
ns.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
webmail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
www.mpi.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.
Arthur, we realy need to get this resolved can we get developer/senior problem solver assistance. I think that the items points g & h are very relevant!

After great assistance from Apple (thanks Arthur!!) and our new DNS service provider we have our website online and working as required. The resolution required a switch to another DNS service provider.
We are now using SecuritySpace (www.securityspace.net, www.securityspace.com). They are extremely competent, very responsive and a pleasure to deal with. I've suggest that Apple list a set of known DNS providers that dotmac clients should deal with. I cc'ed SecuritySpace support on this mail.
Best regards,

Dotster CNAME personal domain won't work

I have established my CNAME at Dotster as web.mac.com (it has been set for over a week and Dotster states it is pointing correctly). I have set my personal domain name at .mac. Here's what I get:
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.mypersonaldomain.com/” because it can’t find the server “www.mypersonaldomain.com”.
Similar with Firefox.
HELP!!! Please! Anyone else having this issue?
No answer (day 4) from .mac support...

You need to go to your .Mac account settings and change the personal domain stuff to nothing or whatever it is you want.
In any case it does not matter what iWeb says down at the bottom, it can only publish to one place, and that is your iDisk, and your real url will always stay web.mac.com/username.

Personal Domain using CName question/ How to simplify URL?

I have iWeb '06 set up to publish to a personal domain that I purchased through GoDaddy.com. It is working fine, except that when I enter my domain name, the URL comes up as follows-- "http://www.mydomain.tv/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html" Is there a way to get the URL to EXCLUDE "iWeb/Site" and just read "http://www.mydomain.tv/Welcome.html"???
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Different options are discussed here in section 1.2.

Publishing iWeb site to .Mac personal domain

I set up Personal Domain on .Mac & added the cname on my account with Network Solutions & are waiting for the changes to take effect now. But I have 2 sites in iWeb. How do I get the right site on the personal domain.

Hi again,
My Problem is that it is not clear how to redirect mlwhall.com --> www.mlwhall.com
Since CNAME is for aliases, I am not sure how to point mlwhall.com since that is the root name. The A (host) will only take an IP address, so I assume that if I am going to do this I need to do it in the CNAME section (pinging did not get me a useable IP address). I cannot believe I am the only person that wants to do this -- setting up domain forwarding does not seem to work either
Is it not common for people to want to have www.blah.com and blah.com to resolve to the same place?
----Martin----
And yes -- I meant to say that I made a CNAME alias for www that points to web.mac.com as pointed out in the personal domain instructions.

Personal domain hosted at MobileMe - but not showing up.

You guys have already helped me out so much on this forum, so thank you.
Here's the problem. Several days ago, I transferred my domain to MobileMe and changed the CNAME info at Network Solutions (my domain registrar). But for some reason, when I visit:
www.barrycooper.com
I'm still getting the Network Solutions "under construction" page, rather than my iWeb site. When I checked Network Solutions, I note that only the CNAME alias has changed (to web.me.com.barrycooper.com). The IP Address fields all point to the under construction page.
Any idea what I might have done wrong here?

Firstly, you have not transferred your domain to MobileMe - Apple does not host domain names, only websites, so you domain name registrar still controls your domain name - i.e. Network Solutions - Apple just host your site and not your domain name.
What you decided to do was to link the two, so you have forwarded your domain to your MME hosted website.
To get it to work, you need to log into your MobileMe account and enter your domain name under the personal domain name settings.
You then need to go to Network Solutions and select your DNS settings. The alias for your CNAME should be your domain name - www and @ and then this should be forwarded to your host web.me.com. What you have there at present is incorrect so it will not work. Go and change these settings and it should work.

Site made with iWeb using personal domain name

I have created a web site on iWeb 08 and have a personal domain name through Network Solutions.
The website was published to Mobile Me after "set up personal domain" was done. The C Name record was changed at Network Solutions to web.me.com. When I write the domain name in the browser a box comes down asking "idisk.mac.com" wants user name and password.
1. Why is it asking for this?
2. every ID and Password I put in, it tells me is incorrect? Ahhhhhhhh What does it want from me?
Please help - I've waisted so much time on this (since last week).
The website name is www.theplazarealty.com is you want to take a look.
Thank you

This relates to a problem I can't find in the iWeb manual. Where is my iWeb site actually published to, so I can accurately update it using FTP software, and which method to use for publishing it to domain names?
I have created two websites for two different purposes each with a personal domain (one hosted, the other with webforwarding), and through ignorance have done all three options Publish to MobileMe / Publish All to MobileMe / and Publish to a folder (my home computer user Sites folder). As a result I have three Sites folders each containing both 'mysites'- Computer/user/Sites/sitename, or iDisk/user/Sites/sitename, or iDisk/user/Web/Sites/sitename - all different sizes, worryingly, leaving me unclear which is doing what. What is the diff between Publish All to MMe and Publish to MMe - they both seem to entail both sites totally republishing even if only one page has changed. Each time, of course, it takes several minutes or more to clear through the publishing process, and then some 20-30mins more to synchronise with FTP before I find out whether I've only used the duff old version after all. What is the difference between the three Sites destination folders? Can the difference be used productively? Should I, eg, ensure my sites exist both on my computer and iDisk as backup?
Further confusing factor is that when I log into MMe and look at my folders icon on my iDisk, which are Sites and Web/Sites, the contents of the two 'mysites' folders listed under both areas are different from the SITES/iWeb display listed below them, which seems to be a truncated sort of merger of the 'mysites' contents without their separation into two. Is that iWeb item under SITES on the folders page listing a fourth set of the contents,or what?
Now to synchronising/updating: which Sites folder to use to synchronise the websites with. Can I get updating in sync with republishing? My domain host UKcentric does not provide the CNAME options you have all talked about and they are unobtainable on my hosted domain page. I sent him the web.me.com message as described in the iWeb Personal Domain instrux, but he has persistently instructed me to use FTP software to upload and update the sites. He is not Mac-friendly, he admits. I have now used three programs, ClassicFTP, FileZilla and Cyberduck, all of which seem to be rather different and none of them has told me the sync has completed (the connection drops out, etc - it does take a long time, say 30-40mins to do, and I never know when I "resume" whether it'll pick up where it was or go back to zero start). If I am stuck with this laborious method of regular manual updating, I want to know I am using the correct Sites folder to synchronise the website with. None of this is clarified in the iWeb manual. Can anyone help?

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