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January 19, 2006

Domain names

I was gifted my own domain name, registered through GoDaddy. www.stevejanke.com will now by the domain by which "Steve Janke: Angry in the Great White North" goes by.

But I need to make it work first.

I've enabled forwarding, and that seems to work. But I have questions. Should I be modifying the nameservers identified at GoDaddy? They are pointing at the "parked" servers. Should I enable masking? If so, what do I need to be aware of? What about weblog configurations here? Should I replace the Site URL and Site Archive fields for the weblog with paths using "www.stevejanke.com"?

Any other advice? Any other landmines I need to know about? Thanks all.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 04:09 PM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 You need to direct to the name servers (not parker ones) Jim can straighten it out with the exact name. But that is no redirect guarnatee as I did that and am waiting on mine due to some fluke so FYI.
Jim is looking into it and hopefully will get back to us soon!

Posted by: stinkerbell @ at January 19, 2006 05:50 PM

2 Domain name servers:

Primary: ns.mu.nu
Secondary: ns2.mu.nu

Let me know when you switch those over and I'll get it in on this end.

Stinkerbell - Hold tight, dear. You are not forgotten.

Posted by: Jim @ at January 19, 2006 09:15 PM

3 Done -- primary and secondary nameservers have been set for two domain names:

www.stevejanke.com
www.stephenjanke.com

Posted by: Steve Janke @ at January 19, 2006 09:19 PM

4 Here's the email I got, just to be sure I did this right:

Dear Steve Janke,

This notification is generated automatically as a service to you.



We have received a request that the name servers be changed to:

ns.mu.nu
ns2.mu.nu

for the following name(s):

STEPHENJANKE.COM
STEVEJANKE.COM

Posted by: Steve Janke @ at January 19, 2006 09:20 PM

5 No problem. I'll get that set up for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 19, 2006 09:53 PM

6 So what does this do, exactly?

Posted by: Steve Janke @ at January 19, 2006 10:05 PM

7 Okay, the way it works is this:

When you look up a domain name, like, say, stevejanke.com, the first thing it does it finds out what .com means. Then it goes to the DNS server for .com (actually, there's a whole bunch of these), and asks where the DNS server for stevejanke.com is.

The .com DNS server knows that the stevejanke.com DNS servers are ns.mu.nu and ns2.mu.nu, because that's what you've told it. So I just need to update our servers so that stevejanke.com maps to the existing angrygwn.mu.nu. Which I have now done, so let's see if it works...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 20, 2006 12:26 AM

8 Yep, works.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 20, 2006 12:28 AM

9 You probably want to change your internal blog links too. You can do this in one place in your setup... I forget exactly where, but it's obvious when you see it.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at January 20, 2006 11:26 AM

10 "Site URL" and "Archive URL" have been updated in the "Core Setup" screen.

Now masking. Good thing? I understand it uses a frame into which your site is displayed, the frame hiding the old URL. Any issues with doing this?

Posted by: Steve Janke @ at January 20, 2006 11:46 AM

11 You don't need to use masking, since everything works already.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 20, 2006 09:38 PM

12 It looks like the blogroll includes have to be rebuilt. I guess it's not automatic...

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at January 22, 2006 10:47 AM

13 Blogroll is editified.

Posted by: Jim @ at January 23, 2006 11:19 AM

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