Setting Up First Website

[Qalfy]

Hi,

 

I had a problem regarding my first personal website and was hoping the forum folk could help. Just skip to Need Help: if you don't want to read through the background.

 

Background:

I have the domain alfonsocheng.com

Originally I setup a subdomain, working fine at travel.alfonsocheng.com. This subdomain was redirected to alfonsocheng.com/travel

The subdomain/folder /travel was used for a blog using wordpress.org's zipped platform and was working fine...

 

Problem:

Now, I want alfonsocheng.com to be a homepage (instead of the list of directories)

So, I tried to add an A name with tumblr's IP address....

Simple DNS Zone Editor-> Add an A Record

Name: alfonsocheng.com

Address: 66.6.44.4

 

Then I tried

Simple DNS Zone Editor-> Add an CNAME Record

Name: travel.alfonsocheng.com

Address: 216.218.192.170

 

but now all I see on alfonsocheng.com AND travel.alfonsocheng.com is the tumblr blog.

 

Need Help:

So basically, I want my own homepage (using tumblr platform or something else) to be alfonsocheng.com

and if someone clicks a hyperlink somewhere, it can bring them to my existing wordpress platform blog: travel.alfonsocheng.com

 

If someone could help me out with setting this up, that would be great.

 

Thanks in advance,

Alfonso

[Hairy DJ]

I have never changed a DNS record myself so I can't help you with that but I wonder why you just make a home page at alfonsocheng.com/index.html with links to the blog.

[Ice IT Support]

An A record is only for IP addresses and CNAME records for other domain names. Your record for your travel subdomain needs to be an A record, not CNAME.