CNAME problem.

[Syndrome6]

Dear x10hosting,

I am hosting my domain name from netfirms.ca, however wanted to host my actual webpage from your site. I have the forwarding and url cloaking set up from the netfirms.ca site using CNAMEs, however when you type in the following URL:

www.syndromestutorials.com

it seems to give some kind of directory listing, rather than my actual
website, which is located at:

www.synstutorials.pcriot.com. Is there a way to fix this?

-Shawn

 

[Micro]

You need to park your domain www.syndrometutorials.com in cpanel (without the www.)

Then it should work.

 

[Syndrome6]

alright i added:

syndromestutorials.com

as a parked domain, and have it forwarding to:

http://www.synstutorials.pcriot.com

I will give it an hour or so to take effect, and see if it fixed it
Edit:
alright its been over an hour now, and the problem is still the same. any more ideas i can try?
Edit:
anyone?

 

[Corey]

Has to be something wrong with the redirection, how do you have it setup?

 

[Twinkie]

If I get this I think you must make a redirect to your homepage so the listings don't show.

 

[Syndrome6]

corey, which side do you want me to explain? here? or from my actual domain side?
Edit:
twinkie, that directory wasnt even for my homepage... as none of my file were in it. so i have no idea where it was going. lol

 

[Micro]

Syndrome, are you making cnames or simply redirections?

 

[Syndrome6]

i am using the CNAME option from my domain host (with their help of course)

 

[Nikolasr]

hey it's work fine...

 

[Syndrome6]

ive disabled it right now so my site works

 

[Corey]

If you want to put it back try using an A record to the IP address of your subdomain instead of a CNAME

 

[Syndrome6]

corey,

sorry.. but im not exactly sure where to look for the IP address of my subdomain :S

Once i have that, I will try to implement the A record

 

[Corey]

74.86.133.24

 

[Syndrome6]

alright. I think i added the a-name correctly. says please allow 24 hours for it to take effect

will post when i get an update thx for all your help corey
Edit:
alright. im getting that silly directory listing again.

and when i type in http://74.86.133.24, i get the same thing :/

 

[Corey]

Can you post a screen shot of your DNS page?

 

[Syndrome6]

absolutely

The first line is my forwarding to my website here... and the second line is the A-Name that I set up.

 

[Corey]

Hmm, that can't be setup right. It's going to that IP but it's not passing the domain info with it. That doesn't look like an A entry to me though, it looks like it's just forwarded.

 

[Nikolasr]

absolutely

The first line is my forwarding to my website here... and the second line is the A-Name that I set up.

hey where it's that in cpanel or?

 

[Syndrome6]

corey. will i clicked on a-name, and added in the IP address.. and thats what showed up

 

[Corey]

I'm really not sure, you can try asking the registrar for help otherwise I'd say you have to point the name servers here.