mark.coleman

I'm looking to register a couple of domains but want the ability to administer the settings, such as A records etc. I also need some domain space. Would anyone happen to know of a decent ISP I could use, that's also competitive.

Thanks,

Mark

RichB

I use 123reg.co.uk, full domain control. You dont get free webspace though but it is available...

KiwiGTI

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mark.coleman

First of all guys, thanks for that.

Maybe someone has the answer to this, it seems pretty logical to me, but my mate is having few problems.

I've registered a domain retrobsession.com for a website and I have a forum at http://s13.invisionfree.com/RetrObsession

I've been told I can create a subdomain within the above domain, forum.retrobsession.com which I would like to point to my forum IP address 67.15.181.31, but he's having problems sorting it.

He's managed somehow to point forum.retrobsession.com to http://s13.invisionfree.com/RetrObsession, but the address bar still displays as the s13.*** address when you go there, which is not what I want.

Within invisionfree forum admin you have a domain manager tab that you can alter, this enables your forum to display as your registered domain rather than s13.***, but it will only accept if it sees your domain is correctly pointing to the IP address.

I've been told that a subdoamin needs to be setup under retrobsession.com, in my case forum.retrobsession.com and an A record created to point at this address, but's been unable to make it so.

Retrobsession is registered with ukreg

Help, as I'm starting to get a little frustrated, surely it cant be that difficult as many other forum do it in this way.

Thanks

Mark

PS - hence my reason for requesting a domain I can have control of settings.

RichB

Not sure you will be able to do what you want unless you have control of the invisionfree.com domain/webserver.
What you want is the user to see what is at http://s13.invisionfree.com/retrobsession/ but actually have forum.retrobsession.com in their browser URL - Correct?

Some hosts allow webforwarding like this (123reg does I think) but if you have created a subdomain called forum and made it an A record pointing to the IP address resolved from http://s13.invisionfree.com (67.15.181.31) then you still need something on the webserver to say, any request for the url http://forum.retrobsession.com that has ended up here show them the contents of this folder... So you need a web site setting up on the http://s13.invisionfree.com webserver with a host header of forum.retrobsession.com.

Having now looked at the invisionfree.com none of what I said above should be necessary - lol
http://support.invisionfree.com/inde...owtopic=109114

Hmm, hope that made some sense.

mark.coleman

Ahh you see, it can be done and it makes sense.:-) I've not played around with records for a while and can't understand why he's having problems.

I might email ukreg

mark.coleman

Well, It ended up that ukreg don't offer DNS admin. I found I could purchase another domain for $2.99 from yahoo domains and it works perfectly, so I did retrobsession.net

I knew it wasn't that hard, but it's helps if the option is there.