CName questions and issues

I have two issues, after I've made changes to www.myDomain.com to point to myningD.ning.com (btw, it is working fine...)

1. Will I get duplicate content on these two sites? should I put some code on the myningD.ning.com ?
2. I want to make sure that also myDomain.com is pointing to myningD.ning.com and not to be consider 'duplicate content', any suggestion how I do it without 301 in the .htaccess file?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on March 19, 2008 at 5:44pm

Hi Ido,

Yes, both domains will work once the domain mapping is in place. Once you're sure that the domain mapping is working correctly and you've given it enough time to propagate globally (around 72 hours), you can follow these instructions to do a 301 redirect for ning.com versions of each page to the equivalent on your domain.

Thanks,
Phil

Permalink Reply by Ido on March 19, 2008 at 9:23pm

Thank Phil!

As for my #2 - Do you have any ideas how can I make sure that both:
http://www.myDomain.com
http://myDomain.com

are pointing to myD.ning.com (using CNAME)

BUT, not to be consider 'duplicate content'?
I can't make 301 from http://myDomain.com because I only have its DNS - no server there....

Thanks for your time!
Ido

Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on March 19, 2008 at 9:26pm

Hi Ido,

It will depend on what your host / registrar offers; GoDaddy for example will let you forward mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. With others like Yahoo you may need to assign an A Record. If both are pointing to the network then the redirection script I linked to will take care of redirecting from one to the other.

Thanks,
Phil

Permalink Reply by Ido on March 19, 2008 at 9:52pm

well after reading the code again :)
You are so right!

Thanks!!
Ido

Permalink Reply by Steve Slisar on April 14, 2008 at 7:36am

Hi Phil,

I use SiteGround and had then change the CName for club.slisar.com to slisar.ning.com, but it comes up with an error page. Is there something else that I need to do to make the redirection work?

Steve

Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on April 14, 2008 at 4:49pm

Hi Steve,

You'll need to purchase the premium service and select it to map to club.slisar.com if you haven't already.

Thanks,
Phil

Permalink Reply by Jessie Upp on November 16, 2008 at 11:05am

I'm having troubles getting support from ning or networkdeveloper.ning.

I've purchased the premium to create a cname on godaddy for my ning network to go to my domain and godaddy says it's all set up correctly.

but I still get an error message (for the last 48 hours!) on my website.

can anyone please help me? I have 80 members that are asking what's wrong...

I did have a subdomain mapping to ning and it worked just fine. but ever since I tried to map the main domain, it's been down. I deleted the subdomain in case the duality was causing issues. but even with the subdomain deleted, it still created an error.
FYI:
Question #081113-001119

Do I just give up and recreate the subdomain because that worked for some reason? I really don't want to do this...seeing that subdomains create email issues?

Jessie

Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on November 16, 2008 at 1:26pm

Hi Jessie,

I've tweaked the mapping on our end to match the fact that you want to map your main domain now; it looks like you're currently masking network.greenyourtheme.com to greenyourtheme.com; instead you should set it up via godaddy to forward to greenyourtheme.com. The difference is that people who go to the subdomain end up on greenyourtheme.ning.com instead of www.greenyourtheme.com. Please follow up with your support ticket if you have any more issues.

Thanks,
Phil

Permalink Reply by Jessie Upp on November 16, 2008 at 2:18pm

Phil!

It's finally working!! Thank you for mapping it correctly on your end.

As for turning masking off - do I forward it to greenyourtheme.com or www.greenyourtheme.com?

Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on November 16, 2008 at 2:26pm

I'd say that forwarding to www.greenyourtheme.com is best for the old subdomain.

Cheers,
Phil

Permalink Reply by Jessie Upp on November 16, 2008 at 7:21pm

Ok. I spoke too soon, Phil :(

The website is coming up fine, but I can't log in and no one else can as well.

It says "There was a problem signing in. Oops – that didn't work."

The password is correct. (it doesn't say the password is wrong and I've tested this with multiple profile logins).

Do you think this has to do with mapping it on your end?

Permalink Reply by Phil McCluskey on November 16, 2008 at 7:29pm

Hi Jessie,

Hmm, it's possible; can you give it a try now? Please message me if you're still having problems.

Thanks,
Phil