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brokensaber
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 Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: Binding a domain to an ip address? |
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I have X1. I bought a domain name from yahoo and it forwards to my ip address.
A friend can type in http://www.mywebsite.com and reach my site with no problem.
When he or I try to reach http://www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/YaBB2/Yabb.pl
No Message boards show up , just the web page.
When I type http://my ip/cgi-bin/YaBB2/Yabb.pl the message boards load fine, but I would rather have people utilize my domain name rather than Ip address to get to the boards.
At this point I dont know what to edit, what do I have to check to get this to work? |
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AbyssUnderground
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using a DNS "A" record or a forwarding rule? You need to utilise the "A" record in order to use linking as you state in your post. A forwarding rule will 99% of the time link just to the site if any extra folders/files are added to the end of the URL.
Edit: 3000th post :-D
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Axis
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hello brokensaber--
I would check in admin center/Forum Configuration/Path Settings and see if you have your Ip address in the Board URL:
If so you should be able to change it to read:
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/yabb2
I hope this helps.
Regards,
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brokensaber
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to both of you. I'll do both tonight. As you would guess it I dont know about alot of this stuff. I'll read up on the dns a record stuff at yahoo.
"Edit: 3000th post :-D"
Do I get a free Nano? :] |
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| brokensaber wrote: | "Edit: 3000th post :-D"
Do I get a free Nano? :] |
A bit off-topic...
He meant it was his 3000:th post. The forum itself has over 61 000 posts. |
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AbyssUnderground
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| cmxflash wrote: | | brokensaber wrote: | "Edit: 3000th post :-D"
Do I get a free Nano? :] |
A bit off-topic...
He meant it was his 3000:th post. The forum itself has over 61 000 posts. |
I think that was sarcasm and he was joking.
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cmxflash
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| AbyssUnderground wrote: | | cmxflash wrote: | | brokensaber wrote: | "Edit: 3000th post :-D"
Do I get a free Nano? :] |
A bit off-topic...
He meant it was his 3000:th post. The forum itself has over 61 000 posts. |
I think that was sarcasm and he was joking. |
Probably sarcasm about the nano, but I think he tought he made the 3000:th post. |
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brokensaber
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: |
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ya I was joking . Note the smiley.
Anyways back to topic. I did the changes. I set the A record and made all the changes to the Yabb configuration. All is up and running. Now I just need to do some editing. Thanks again guys. |
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