[Wylug-admin] Wordpress

[James Holden]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:16:18PM +0100, John Leach wrote:
> Actually, it sounds like all you need is a CNAME:
> 
> Q: I own domain.com, and want to map a subdomain of that to my
> WordPress.com blog. Is that possible?
> 
> A: Yes. You will need to add a DNS CNAME at your DNS provider before the
> domain mapping will work. You should not change your nameserver
> information if you just want to map a subdomain. The CNAME should look
> something like the following:
> 
> subdomain.domain.com. IN CNAME [your-blog].wordpress.com.
> 
> Once that DNS entry has been added login to your WordPress.com
> Dashboard, click on Settings -> Domains and enter subdomain.domain.com
> into the box. If everything is setup correctly, it will allow you to map
> the subdomain to your blog. If things are not quite right the system
> will let you know and provide suggestions on what you need to do to
> remedy the problem.

Ah, so we could do that with www...

> Note: You cannot map only the ???www??? subdomain since we remove the www
> from all the URLs at wordpress.com.

...oh :-/

> I'll arrange a reimport of the latest data.

Go ahead, works for me. I'll set up the CNAME :)

james

> 
> John.
> 
> 
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