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**rocklee0891** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 05:33

Well, eUKhost gave me a domain name for posting 30 times (I suggest it to all, u should make 30 quality posts, they're not liars, they keep their word and get u one!)! But I've never had one before, so I don't know how to set it up... I wanted it to post at an invisionfree forum, but am completely confused as to how... In the admin panel, it said I needed to have it pointing to "z6.invisionfree.com" and it had to have a cname record (what's a cname record???). In the eNom control panel, it showed DNS settings, how do I use these?? Am I supposed to put the website url in one of them? Do I need custom or default. Thanks for any help you guys can give me when answering!

(sorry if that link's against the rule...)

**eUKhost.com** · #2 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 09:06

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Originally Posted by rocklee0891

In the admin panel, it said I needed to have it pointing to "z6.invisionfree.com" and it had to have a cname record (what's a cname record???).

It seems that they don't give you any sort of nameservers to point your domain name to their server. You will need to use default nameservers of Enom and then setup CNAME records. I've done this for you as you may not be able to do this properly.

Wait for 1 - 2 hours and then check if your domain starts working or not.

**rocklee0891** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 09:45

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Originally Posted by eukhost.com

It seems that they don't give you any sort of nameservers to point your domain name to their server. You will need to use default nameservers of Enom and then setup CNAME records. I've done this for you as you may not be able to do this properly.

Wait for 1 - 2 hours and then check if your domain starts working or not.

Thank you! It works perfectly! I've just got to make it primary, and that's it! I'd like to thank you, and eUKhost for all it's help!

**DPS Computing** · #4 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 14:55

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Thank you! It works perfectly! I've just got to make it primary, and that's it! I'd like to thank you, and eUKhost for all it's help!

Glad to see you got it working rock. You will have to tell us about your forum sometime so we can have a look at it! Maybe submit it to the Website Reviews section?

Think you owe Mark a special big thank you for the set up as well!

**rocklee0891** · #5 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 21:29

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Glad to see you got it working rock. You will have to tell us about your forum sometime so we can have a look at it! Maybe submit it to the Website Reviews section?

Think you owe Mark a special big thank you for the set up as well!

Yes, Mark did help it get straightened out! Thanks! And it's not my sole owned website, right now it's just an Role Play forum, but, when I get hosting, I plan to re set it up, with the creator. lol

i'd like to ask one final thing. I set it to primary, and it works fine, but when I click the topics, and such, non of them show up, they just show the exact url needed, but say, "server not found" it works as a link perfectly, but I was hoping to get it to show ass the url in the address bar. Is there something I did wrong?

**eUKhost.com** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 22:36

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Yes, Mark did help it get straightened out! Thanks! And it's not my sole owned website, right now it's just an Role Play forum, but, when I get hosting, I plan to re set it up, with the creator. lol

i'd like to ask one final thing. I set it to primary, and it works fine, but when I click the topics, and such, non of them show up, they just show the exact url needed, but say, "server not found" it works as a link perfectly, but I was hoping to get it to show ass the url in the address bar. Is there something I did wrong?

does that happen with www.yourdomain or without www. ?

**rocklee0891** · #7 (**permalink**) 04-06-2007, 23:04

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does that happen with www.yourdomain or without www. ?

It shows no www. A few more problems... I'm sorry if I'm wasting time, I don't think it's the domain names u give us, I think it's all the difficulties of invisionfree. lol

The link won't work with fire fox... and if someone's using the old url "z6.invisionfree.com/ect" and type the new one, they're logged out. Anything I did wrong?

**DPS Computing** · #8 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 13:59

Have you tried adding the www then to the beginning of your address to see if it works?

As in www.yourdomain.com and then tried clicking on a topic?

Also, for the Firefox problem, have you cleared your cache? - that could be the problem.

Hope that helps

.

**rocklee0891** · #9 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 21:12

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Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Have you tried adding the www then to the beginning of your address to see if it works?

As in www.yourdomain.com and then tried clicking on a topic?

Also, for the Firefox problem, have you cleared your cache? - that could be the problem.

Hope that helps

.

sorry, i meant it won't work with internet explorer, it works with firefox, and yeah, I did do that, it didn't work...

**DPS Computing** · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 21:16

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sorry, i meant it won't work with internet explorer, it works with firefox, and yeah, I did do that, it didn't work...

Hmm, never heard of a problem like this before - however I have never had experience of using a domain with a free hosting provider.

I assume the problem is at your hosting end seen as though Mark set up your domain properly for you.

I would say contact your hosts support but I guess seen as though you are with a free host support doesn't exist!

**rocklee0891** · #11 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 21:22

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Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Hmm, never heard of a problem like this before - however I have never had experience of using a domain with a free hosting provider.

I assume the problem is at your hosting end seen as though Mark set up your domain properly for you.

I would say contact your hosts support but I guess seen as though you are with a free host support doesn't exist!

the only problem was really, that it didn't click on any forums, and as mark said, when i clicked on what, it didn't have the www... lol

**DPS Computing** · #12 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 21:24

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the only problem was really, that it didn't click on any forums, and as mark said, when i clicked on what, it didn't have the www... lol

Ah right - sorry I misunderstood you! Well at least your forum is working (at least to a certain extent) with your domain.

**rocklee0891** · #13 (**permalink**) 05-06-2007, 21:26

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Ah right - sorry I misunderstood you! Well at least your forum is working (at least to a certain extent) with your domain.

Yeah, I guess so. Well, the only REAL bad part is it won't work with internet explorer... Also I think he might have noticed the problem, seeing as, he noticed it came up with no "www" lol