How do I switch my website to www.mydomain?
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Ok, I just tried changing both addresses to www.organicencyclopedia.com, and again I'm having the same problem. I tried a different browser, but it still says it can't open the page because of too many redirects.
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I'm sorry this did not attach correctly the 1st time. I wanted to make sure that you were able to see what I'm talking about please let me know that you can see this.
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This sounds like it should be very helpful, but I'm having trouble adding more records. I guess I shouldn't have gone with a weird cheap registrar
I have the option to add more DNS records, but not with content on two sides...I just have a bunch of single fields for adding things like "name server 3:" well, really I could add any number of name servers, but that seems to be the only option I have. There are some advanced DNS controls (which I can't see yet) but when I click on that it warns me that"In order to use Advanced DNS Manager, your Name Servers must be moved to Network Solutions managed name servers." ...so that's why I'm afraid of my website being destroyed if I try any of that, but that might be the way to do it. By the way, if I figure out where I can enter that, is that a CNAME record?
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I am almost 100% sure that you simply need a 2nd a record like this record below posted in is a photograph. I am using DNS made easy MS every DNS host is different I prefer Dyn however I'm trying this one out and some do not show your domain name as it does not show my domain name in this photograph some will show the domain name all you have to do is enter
www no dot before the domain name or in the box to the left of the IP address that you have to add as well
so it will show
www.organicencyclopedia.com IP address
** and**
organicencyclopedia.com IP address
** no cname is needed for this to happen.**
** Only the correct a name is needed right now.**
** Please let me know this was of help**
** sincerely,**
** Thomas**
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Network solutions makes money off of scaring people that way. In my opinion they're the only ones that give that really Stupid warning to people to make them feel afraid.
do not change your name servers unless you are going to move to a better host
here is the way it is done on network solutions you do have to click advanced
When you move Name Servers to Network Solutions, your existing Name Servers will no longer be used. As a result, website and email from other providers will be lost.
1. Within **Account Manager, **select My Domain Names
2. Select the domain name you want to change and select Manage
3. In the green box, select Change Where Domain Points
4. Select Advanced DNS
5. Select the type of record you would like to work with
IP Address (A records)
This is the Address Record and is used to map the domain name server (or hostname) to its numeric IP address. In other words, the A record resolves a domain name or points the domain name to the correct location by means of the IP address.
- In the IP Address (A records) section, click on the **Edit A Records **button
b) To add the new Host and Numeric IP addresses or update the existing Numeric IP addresses enter the appropriate information in the text boxes, if needed modify the TTL settings (7200 is the default) then click on the Continue button.
- A confirmation page will appear verifying that your records have been updated, review the information carefully, and then click on the Save Changesbutton.
http://www.networksolutions.com/support/how-to-manage-advanced-dns-records/
you will be adding
www.oorganicencyclopedia.com. 86400 IN A 54.235.194.53
if you see the domain already there like this on the left oorganicencyclopedia.com
simply type in www NO Dot then go to the box on the right and enter 54.235.194.53 if the box asking for TTL or time to live is blank you can type 86400 as your time to live is best to be the same for each a record and unless otherwise needed.
I updated this to get rid of the 1st a selection as It does not pertain to what were doing.
And I would again if this site is a business site or something you care about quite a bit strongly suggest using to manage WordPress host the only one that will control your DNS records for you on an excellent system run by DynECT
is Zippykid.com they are very inexpensive for what you get.
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I only have fields that look like this:
name server 1: _______________
name server 2: _______________
nothing with two fields like your picture
(I tried to attach a screenshot, but no luck)
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Thank you! So, just to clarify, if I follow these instructions will my website be destroyed? I mean, the instructions you gave about how to add the record on network solutions.
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Yes they are trying to get you to confirm that you want to use your own name servers and if I may add their DNS setup is garbage because they make money off of managing it for you.
To update A records
1. Log in to Account Manger
2. Within **Account Manager, **use the drop down under **My Domain Names **to choose the domain you’d like to manage and click the Go button
3. In the green box, select Change Where Domain Points
4. Select Advanced DNS
5. Click the Continue button
6. If the domain name was not previously pointed to Network Solutions
nameservers (DNS) you will receive a page with messaging regarding this change. If you’d like to continue, click the Move Nameservers to Network Solutions button7. In the IP Address (A Records) section, click Edit A Records
8. Your current A records are listed in editable form, and any Network Solutions
service that is associated with the A record is listed below the Numeric IP text box9. The first three hosts listed are the most common hosts used with domain names:
o www : Points to the specified IP address when Internet users enter an address, such as www.jimbikes.com
o @ (none) : Points to the specified IP address when a user enters just the domain name without anything before it, such as jimsbikes.com
o * (All OThers) : Points any unassociated host for a domain name to the specified IP address, similar to a catch-all feature that could be used for any misspelled host names
To add or edit A records
1. Enter or edit the new host name in the Host column
2. If needed, modify the TTL settings (7200 is the default)
3. Enter or edit the IP number under the Numeric IP Address column in any remaining empty row
4. Click Continue
** You see they make you go through all that just to add an a record. Confirming the a records in their will not harm you at all.**
Simply confirm them and continue then follow the advice above.
I can't tell you how strongly I recommend using a different host.
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Hey, I followed those instructions and I finally had a place to enter the information! So, it did have a value already in place for www, which makes me wonder if this was even the problem at all... but I did replace it with the value you posted, so now I just have to wait for the change to take effect, and hopefully it will all work. Thanks so much for your help!
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I promise you you will not have any damage done to your website by following the instructions.
All that is going to happen is you will confirm your name servers because network solutions it is about the worst place to host your DNS you can find.
Then it will allow you to see your a record it shows you as managing advanced a records it believes that it is advanced because you're not using their name servers you have decided to name them yourself. In addition I'm going to go as far as saying you should use https://www.cloudflare.com
to host your domain records however you would not get the ability to have custom name record without paying. If it means a lot to have custom name records I would not use cloudflare
I just used clould flare to back up your DNS records so you will have a copy regardless of anything and I do want to make you comfortable and have you know that you will not have your site destroyed by simply following what you need to do. If you are going to use cloudflare let me know so I can take your records off and there will be a duplicate issue
very important remove the c name shown below and in the photograph that is a misconfiguration you need a 2nd a record.
www is an alias of organicencyclopedia.com
It will also give you an error message if you try to add more than one www
so delete the c name before prior to adding the a record because seeing names need to go to host names given by the web host not by just adding your domain name in the cname box we want it to look like this
http://i.imgur.com/Bx5d4fg.png
htttp://www.networksolutions.com/support/a-records-ip-addresses-2/
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Well... I can now enter www.organicencyclopedia.com OR organicencyclopedia.com and go to the page without being redirected, which...that in itself seems kind of odd because I have canonical URLs turned on... but anyway, I'm still getting the redirection loop if I change the URLS to www in general settings. Guess I'll try again tomorrow in case I just haven't waited long enough, though.
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Laura,
it is your web browser
http://www.organicencyclopedia.com/
works fine having canonical URLs turned on makes no difference in a redirect it could say whatever and it would make no difference in the actual working of the server
canonical URLs are a seo thing only the do not and cannot affect a redirect or start one on a server only a 301redirect can do this it is your web browser's cache
I know this look your site as does not do any loops here
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/Ntpv7AiZh/www.organicencyclopedia.com
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Yes, it also looks like it's working fine on my end right now... but I have the address listed as organicencyclopedia.com under general settings. If I change the main address to www.organicencyclopedia.com (which is what I am trying to do), it causes a redirect loop error again. (Also, just in case my All in One SEO was causing a problem I deactivated that and installed Yoast, but the same thing is still happening)
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But, Ok, that's good to know about canonical URL being only for SEO. I guess it's a redirection problem rather than a canonical URL problem.
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the
rel="canonical" href="http://organicencyclopedia.com/"
is not showing www. to fix on Wordpress SEO just
do what is shown here http://just-ask-kim.com/canonical-post-page/#.USnUa0XipdE
right now it is here but it's a easy fix
I hope I was of help rember I use the transport seo to Yoast here
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-data-transporter/
then remember to delete the old all in one seo
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have you tryed a new web browser
redirection problem a different browser as if it works for me and pingdom it sound like your computer is storing the old info
I would tell your host to make a 301 redirect to www.organicencyclopedia.com
as this should not be happening to you and not to me or pingdom.
Remove the following redirect chain if possible: http://s.amazon-adsystem.com/iui3?d=assoc-amazon.com&enId=Associates&eId=view&r=1&rP=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.organicencyclop…http://s.amazon-adsystem.com/iui3?d=assoc-amazon.com&enId=Associates&eId=view&r=1&rP=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.organicencyclop…Remove the following redirect chain if possible: http://www.google.com/pagead/drt/uihttps://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/drt/si?p=CAA&ut=AFAKxlQAAAAAUSnWpv5PG8GBMgkej42-FWI_MQygcYW9Read more at Google Code
this is the only code redirect
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I was able to use that feature to set the canonical URL for my home page (to the www version!) I tried to use the 301 redirect feature under it to redirect to the www page, which still caused the redirection loop, but since I basically just wanted to do that for SEO purposes, I think that will work! Now I just need to go through and set canonical URLs for the other pages, but I don't have too many, so that is fine. Thanks again, I have been fighting with this for days.
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Hi Laura,
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unfortunately I can reach your site at www.
and without it that means you need a 301 redirect I would download a plug-in like this that will let you simply do a 301 redirect inside WordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-seo-redirect-301/
or
http://www.webhostingbillboard.com/wordpress-plugins/best-wordpress-plugins-for-301-redirects/
Again I am very sorry to tell you this. As it seemed like everything was all set. Unfortunately now we know that there has to be a 301 redirect put in place for the site to work correctly.
I know I've said this earlier but this appears to be a business site for you I would really really really suggest using a host that specializes in WordPress hosting
zippykid.com will handle your DNS for you and everything you need done will be done by them simply put name server DNS records of theirs in your name server DNS slots and they do everything and not when I say everything that's what I mean every single thing and the make your site a lot faster and safer all of these guys will but this is the only one that will control your DNS as well all of them will help you.
page.ly you also get 30% off of their site for life and pro perks found here at seomoz
will help you with your DNS they will not allow you to run MX records through theirs which I think is not cool but whatever.
WPengine you get 4 months free pro perks seomoz
will make you use your own DNS but will help you just like all these others when it comes to configuring the DNS to work properly.
Web synthesis
is a great host and once again you will be on your own with DNS but they will help you as far as advice and is for setting up your site.
Please understand I'm not trying to sell you on anything as you can tell there's no affiliate links or anything like that I would like a few simply type it in yourself to not follow any links I give you just so you know this is not me trying to make money it seems like if this is can be a big issue there should be larger issues coming down the road in the speed of your website is not great this could all be fixed very easily by using any of those guys would try WP engine you get 4 months free you can host your DNS at DNS made easy for 20 bucks a year including 10 domains. And it's much faster visits anycast then. What you're running now any of the hosts above would be more than happy to tell you exactly what you need to do to get your site to run on their servers I cannot stress enough how much easier this makes life having to manage WordPress host if you get hacked though fix it those types of things these things that we dealt with tonight would've been solved in 1 ticket
I hope I have helped you and I'm glad to see that your site is making progress. It seems like a very cool one one that I will learn some good lessons from I will bookmark it and Recommend to my friends and to parents. If I can be of any more assistance please let me know I'm going to send you a PM with my direct info in case you need to speak more quickly.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Thanks. Yeah, I noticed that pages were loading both with and without the www... but does that really matter, as long as Google only considers one version real for SEO purposes? I thought that was the important point.
I've tried redirecting with various plugins, but unfortunately that just causes the endless loop error no matter how I do it. I feel like there must be some mystery setting working against whatever I put in.
I appreciate your suggestions about registrars, hosting, etc, but the reason I'm using what I'm using is mostly because I'm broke. My current host lets me run as many websites as I want for a set price, and I have domains on a bunch of different registrars from getting $1 deals... yeah, I can see this strategy is not paying off, so I will look into some of the services you recommend and see if they will be possibilities in the future.
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Hi Laura,
I believe I can fix your problem. One of 2 ways I noticed you are hosted on Amazon? Is this correct?
If so that is a good thing my suggestion is we properly change the htaccess file
so that it works to follow the perm links.
If it gives us any trouble I have a lot of resources at my disposal I am positive this can be fixed
Amazon has a free price tier that will allow you to use their DNS for approximately dollar month but I have a free DNS resource.
Why are you buying so many domains buying so many domains if I can ask?
I'm going to send you a PM with a solution.
Ok?
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