Redirecting your *.ning.com address to your Mapped Domain

[Phil McCluskey]

The instructions for this have now been moved to the wiki.

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Charlene,

You can go to the list of networks that you've created and click on 'Add Premium Services' for the network you'd like to purchase one of the services on. Please check out the help center for additional information.

Thanks,
Phil

[Charlene]

Hi Phil,
Thank you for your responce. I purchased my domain name from Ipower.com is that going to be a problem?

Charlene

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Charlene,

I don't know anything about them as a registrar, so I can't say. If they provide advanced dns customization then it should be fine.

Thanks,
Phil

[Charlene]

Hi Phil,
Thanks for the information you sent me. I have another question, where do I point my domain to? Do I need a name server?

Thanks,
Charlene

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Charlene,

Typically you would leave your domain pointing at the nameservers provided by your domain registrar, and then use their DNS tools to create a CNAME record to map the domain to your Ning network. If they don't provide tools like that, then you may need to consider using third-party name servers which do.

Thanks,
Phil

[Tony Silva]

I tried it with my.mydomain.com and it didn't work. So I deleted the my.mydomain and tried community.mydomain.com (and www.community.mydomain.com for the CNAME but still didn't work (I also did just community and www.community in the mydomain.com DNS Zone on my server... still no luck.

I submitted a help request and asked them to change my Use Your Own Domain Name from "my.mydomain.com" to "community.mydomain.com". That hasn't been implemented yet.

Any idea why none of this has worked?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Tony,

It can take up to 72 hours for your DNS changes to take effect everywhere; are you waiting that long before you make another change? You can't apply the script above until your domain mapping is working solidly or else it can make your network unavailable.

Thanks,
Phil

[Charlene]

I have not used the script above because I dont understand where the source code is or how to get there. is it in the URL? Sorry no understanding of code or terms....trying

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Charlene,

Yes, the source code is available at the url above when you modify it for your specific network.

Thanks,
Phil

[BP]

Phil,

I have done all of the above and looks like when user types in my own domain (for example www.blue.com) it brings the user to the correct page. Looks like everything would work, however, when I try to login in, none of my logins work? But, when I change the code back to the original php code in the index file, everything works again. Help!

BP

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi BP, please follow up via the help center and we can investigate.

Thanks,
Phil

[Duke]

Hi Phil,
Is probably a stupid question but if I want to use something like my.mydomain.com what would I do with this in the index file :
" if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] != "www.mydomain.com") {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com" . $_SERVER['HTTP_X_NING_REQUEST_URI']);
} "

Instead of using above" www.mydomain.com" and "http://www.mydomain.com" would I use "my.mydomain.com and "http://my.domain.com ?
Thank you!