Hello I wonder if you can help.
I use a mac running OS 10.5.2 and have recently signed up for their .Mac service and wish to use iWeb to create my website.
I have the domain name MyDomain.uk hosted with plusnet.
I have followed Apple's instructions and added a CNAME to my domain pointing
www.Example.co.uk. at Apple's servers.
Everything has worked fine !!! and entering
www.Example.co.uk takes me to my site.
So far so good.
What I would like to achieve now is to be able to enter just MyDomain.co.uk in my browser(without the www) and be taken to my site.
I have been following some hints from Apple's forums -see below- and it is item 4) that I am having trouble with.
It suggests that I set up domain forwarding for MyDomain.co.uk to point at
www.Example.co.uk in order to view my site by only entering Example.co.uk.
My question therefore is...
Is this the best way to do this and if so how do I set up domain forwarding as i cannot find this option on plusnet's site.
Below is a copy of the hints i have been following
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Any help would be appreciated
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Thanks
Adam
P.S. As well as Domain Forwarding can plusnet also do Masking ?
Here is how to set it up so that your mail traffic is not impacted while sending the web traffic to your .mac personal domain.
1) Configure your personal domain within the .mac admin panel, per the Mac instructions.
2) You need to go to your admin panel of your domain hosting site. I am using 1&1 (1and1.com) for my hosting. Even with the .mac hosting for the website and personal domain, you still need some hosting package for your email if you want to manage multiple email inboxes for your domain. The key to making this work is with the creation and management of subdomains for your site through your admin panel. There is an existing root domain in the registration panel for your site:
Domain Overview
Name
example.com
From here there is an option to set the CNAME record, but that would break all of your email traffic as the entire web and email traffic for your root site would be directed to web.mac.com. Not what you want to do.
3) Instead you create a new subdomain of 'www' or 'www.example.com' through the domain management tool. This only pertains to traffic looking for
www.example.com and would not impact any mail servers looking for your root domain mail record (MX). Set the CNAME record for just the 'www' subdomain to point to web.mac.com
4) There still is the chance that someone who doesn't type your whole web address (eg just example.com) or a really old web router that still interprets www to be the root of the domain would not be able to reach your site. No problem, as you then set up domain forwarding on the root domain of example.com to point at your subdomain of
www.example.com. This only impacts web traffic, not email traffic.
Now your web site can be hosted by .mac with only your personal domain exposed while your email can still be managed without any impact across however many accounts you have through another system.
And because you are creating a new subdomain instead of modifying the CNAME of your root domain, it really only takes hours to propagate across the DNS registries instead of up to 48 hours as new publishing is faster than existing record refreshes.
CNAME records are just a mapping alias for the destination site, so this method is much preferred to hard coding any possible IP addresses for web.mac.com. It is possible that those underlying IPs could change over time based on how Mac handles their load balancing and server fleet.
