My client has a Domain name that he bought from Shopify, is it possible for me to host the website I for him on that domain name ? or do I need to transfer that domain name to a different registrar and then use it ?
Helo there, please provide us more detail, like what is the domain name, what kind of website would you like to host, ect.
If you have a Custom Domain, you will need to transfer it out of Shopify in order to change its nameservers. I recommend transferring it to Namecheap for their cheap prices and amazing customer service. If you don't need to change nameservers for the new host (So you only need to change/add "A" "TXT" "AAAA" "SRV" and/or "CNAME" records), you have the option to keep it in Shopify or to transfer it elsewhere.
More information about DNS on Shopify custom domains: help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/domains/managing-domains/advanced-settings
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My ultimate goal is to have free plan cname content, and premium plan cname content.
For example if someone has a cname of free.example.com set to my website I'd like to show them a specific page, and if premium.example.com I want to show them another page. Finally, I'd like to know if there is a way to add new cnames to my list so that I can have them view a certain page?
Just to make this more understandable this, I want to do something like https://www.gitbook.com/ do with their cnames, and cname serving.
You'll have to use the Host header from the user's request to identify which subdomain or cname they're visiting, and then showing them the desired content. If the subdomain such as free and premium are fixed, you could use Nginx server blocks or Apache virtual hosts to direct the user to specific application or application URI.
Likewise, you can get the Host header with req.hostname in Express. Based on the host, you can route the user to the desired content. You can add as much subdomains or cnames you wish and let your application control the content for the user based on the host. If your DNS host has an API (such as Cloudflare), you can add your subdomains programmatically, or you could do a wildcard subdomain to accept any subdomain.
I have my DNS settings as shown in the image
DNS Setting along with an additional CNAME with host www and value as my GitHub page. Next I setup a CNAME entry in my GitHub page with an apex entry to my domain. The issue I face is that whenever I visit my domain with an https protocol, it shows a warning that the connection is not secure. I get the following in Chrome:
NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
How do I fix this? I have both https and http access for my domain.
UPDATE: Github introduced custom domain support for HTTPS on May 1, 2018.
If you are using GoDaddy and want to upgrade to HTTPS, do the following:
Go to DNS settings for your site in your GoDaddy account.
Remove all existing A records.
Open a terminal and do dig +noall +answer <YOUR-USERNAME>.github.io. You should see a table listing 4 slightly different IP addresses:
On GoDaddy, create 4 new A records, each one pointing to one of the IPs. For host use # and set the TTL to a low user-defined value (if you are in a hurry).
Go to your page repository settings on Github, and clear the custom domain name and save. Wait a while (minutes).
When executing dig +noall +answer <YOUR-CUSTOM-DOMAIN> yields the 4 IP addresses that you entered in the A records, go back to the Github repository settings and re-enter and save your custom domain name (which you just cleared) in the custom domain cell.
Optionally, check the box Enforce HTTPS. But make sure that https://<YOUR-DOMAIN>is responsive first.
Make sure you have a CNAME record in your DNS settings also. Host should be www and it should point to your <YOUR-USERNAME>.github.io.
Make sure there is a file in your website repository named CNAME containing the name of your custom domain (in my case ulfaslak.com).
Reference
EDIT: Please see answer below by Arturo Herrero: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50203412/462015
GitHub pages does not support HTTPS for custom domains.
The only work around for doing so is to use an SSL provider as the middle man, such as Cloudflare. However, this would involve pointing your DNS name servers at Cloudflare's, which takes some time and complicates things.
If you want HTTPS support using GitHub pages you'll have to use GitHub's provided URL instead of your custom domain.
Another great option for static sites if you want custom domain name HTTPS is Amazon Web Services. You could set up an S3 bucket for your static website, configure CloudFront to distribute the static content, point your domain name at the CloudFront distribution, and use a free SSL certificate from Amazon's cert manager. This option comes out to less than $1/Month with a low-traffic website. A great in depth tutorial for that would be here.
I hope this answered your question! GitHub pages is a great hosting option, and it's not the end of the world if you decide to forget about HTTPS.
Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS since May 01, 2018
https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-https/
I have 3 e-commerce websites having same contents on it,the domain name is same but the extensions of all domain is different.How to inform google that i'm the verified owner of all domains.
I just wanted to let google know and seek permission to use same content is different websites of mine, so that it wouldn't affect my ranking.
Is there any code by putting which on the 3 sites, google will got to know that these same sites are of one company's????
By "the Domain name is the same but the extensions are different" i guess you mean you have example.com, example.net, example.io.
if this is what you mean, these are considered to be three different domains. you should implement canonical urls including the preffered domain or redirect all traffic to what you consider the main domain. (e.g. redirect traffic from example.net and example.io to example.com)
For each domain you should use a txt recod to verify ownerhsip in the webmaster tools, most domain providers allow you to configure this record for each domain on your own. Log into your account at your domain provider's site and search for DNS Management, Name Server Management, Control Panel, or Advanced Settings.
Then again, many CMS or e-Commerce systems support "website aliases", where you can configure your system to answer to different domain names, when all your domains point to the same server and often allow you to configure a canonical domain, so that you may even not need to run 3 identical websites.
Please specify your setup, there is not much to go on here. A good example would be:
I currently run 3 Websites (example.com, example.net,
example.io)(Drupal) on 3 Servers, each has its own domain but they
have identical content. They do not use a shared database.
I just purchased a Domain Name from googledomains (I don't have Google app). And for my surprise, the option of Domain Forwarding cannot be masked. I mean, I purchased "www.proto123.com" so the Domain Forward option redirects to a Yahoo server www.mywebsite.com/proto123/. The problem is that on the navigation bar of the webbrowser the address that appears is www.mywebsite.com/proto123/, instead of proto123.com
I already chat with the Google support personal and they said that the masking option is not available.
My question is: with the Dynamic DNS and/or resource records: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, TXT configuration tools. Is it possible to create the PROPER masking for the Domain Forwarding?
You can achieve the same thing by CNAME configurations on Google Domains.
Configure the CNAME
Configure the Synthetic Record DNS forward to *
Please see the sample screenshot
I am wondering how sites like Google sites and shopify allow customers to create a website and then link it to their own domain?. Google sites allow a user to create their own website, at a user supplied domain, and shopify allows a user to create their own e-commerce site - once again, they can supply their own domain to be used to access the webshop created.
In both cases, the website is ostensibly accesed by typing the users domain name in the browser, although the website is actually being hosted by a third party company (Google, Shopify etc)
How is this possible?. Does anyone have an insight into how this is (likely) being done?
I imagine that the technology is DNS, or more precisely CNAME records which alias one DNS name (e.g. "vole-strangling.com") to another (e.g. "vole-strangling.sites.google.com").
Subdomain RewriteRule
why dont you use mod_rewrite rules to do the trick
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