I've registered a name for our shop, creativegraphicsinc.biz. Where do I go from here?
I assume I have to link the new name to my existing website, but I'm not sure of how to go about setting everything up.
Any help from you guru's would be greatly appreciated!
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
You'll have to re-publish it to the new address I'm pretty sure. I don't think your hosting service can do it because all the links to the different pages would have the old addresses. (But ask them, maybe they can simply transfer it over). Is that site something you created yourself? If you can open the file for the site in the same program it was originally created, then re-publishing will be easy. Your new host will have to give you a password and any particulars about their folder structure, whether to name the home page default, index or home, and whether to use .htm or .html extensions. After 20 or 30 hairpulling sessions with the host's tech department and naming your second born after Al Gore, it should go right up there. Piece of cake.
Posted by Robb Lowe (Member # 2121) on :
I'm 99.9% sure your current website like 98% of all websites on the net, is hosted on a 'virtual server'. All that cool-phrase means is, when someone types in yourname.com it goes to ther ISP's DNS server which is a internet-yellow-pages basically, and it in turn sends out the coresponding DNS number (like 12.4.215.121 etc.). This number 'rings' the server its sitting on, and this is where the virtual part comes in... instead of that single server serving only your site (which would make it a dedicated server) it directs the call to a folder the system administrator has assigned it to.
So, to answer your question... all ya gotta do is email your webhost the info and let him do it, or, if you're a DIY kinda guy (and I knows ya are..) you can go to the registrar (whoever does .biz, like internic.com does the .com's) and change your DNS server info to point to your current deal (You still need to notify your webhost of these changes so he can make the changes there too.. simple stuff).
You wont have to do a thing to your website as it is. This is what you pay for - customer service! Let that sysadmin do something besides play Quake 3 Arena all day
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Get your website's IP (DNS) address, it's either listed in a support file on your server or you can call your webhost and get it.. you can even get it yourself by using the "trace route" program that comes with windows and entering your current domain name.
Take that IP address and call the company that you registered the new name with, they'll "aim" that domain name at the IP (DNS) address and badda-bing, yer good to go.
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Isn't that called URL Redirecting? (Curious) ...or sompn entirely different?
(Still tryin to figure this stuff out, too)
Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :
hey glenn,
regardless of domain name or names, you should call your web host and get them to direct the said domain name to any directory within your current web site structure.
there can be mutiple domain names pointing to an index file within your website. talk to your web host/server about pointing multiple domain names towards your main URL.
