Qalfy Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 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.comOriginally I setup a subdomain, working fine at travel.alfonsocheng.com. This subdomain was redirected to alfonsocheng.com/travelThe 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 RecordName: alfonsocheng.comAddress: 66.6.44.4 Then I triedSimple DNS Zone Editor-> Add an CNAME RecordName: travel.alfonsocheng.comAddress: 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.comand 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy DJ Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice IT Support Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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