Hosting providers: One has domain/web page Two use same domain/store: Howto


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Hey

Wow that topic title was difficult to write.

Lets say Provider A has the domain name of example.com and hosts a webpage with links such as example.com/aboutus, example.com/wherearewe, etc. Thats all great.

But I want Provider B to host a online store with links such as example.com/store, example.com/store/shirts, example.com/store/pants, etc but I still want the domain to belong to Provider A.

How can I do this? Better yet, is this even possible?

I talked to both providers and they said it was possible: B told me I would just have to change the DNS B gives me on A. A told me that it was possible and basically the same: I would have to put in A the DNS B gives me. BUT A mentioned something: If I change the DNS, I would NOT be able to access the website anymore since it points to another DNS (which is B) and It needs to point to the DNS given by A to be able to access the webpage. Basically I would only be able to access the online store.

So bascially 2 options are left:

1: Get a new domain name and use that

2: Ask Neowin how and if this is possible :p

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not sure what they were trying to tell you with DNS, this is not a fqdn example.com/store

example.com is the FQDN, you can not have dns point to something like example.com/store -- what you could have is store.example.com point to a different server than example.com

Would this work for you?

You would then be able to do example.com/aboutus be on host A, while store.example.com/shirts etc. be on host B

Other way you could do it would be a redirect for example.com/store to go to otherexample.com

Your best bet would be with subdomains -- store.example.com

You can even have different nameservers for example.com vs store.example.com, etc. Or you could send store.example.com to whatever IP address store.example.com is at via just simple A record on host A dns that houses example.com, or if say store site is hosted at otherexample.com you could use a cname to point store.example.com to otherexample.com

Lots of ways to skin a cat - you could even do frames if you had to to make it look like your own example.com/store but really serving up otherexample.com off of example.com/store

etc.. etc.. etc..

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not sure what they were trying to tell you with DNS, this is not a fqdn example.com/store

example.com is the FQDN, you can not have dns point to something like example.com/store -- what you could have is store.example.com point to a different server than example.com

Would this work for you?

You would then be able to do example.com/aboutus be on host A, while store.example.com/shirts etc. be on host B

Other way you could do it would be a redirect for example.com/store to go to otherexample.com

Your best bet would be with subdomains -- store.example.com

You can even have different nameservers for example.com vs store.example.com, etc. Or you could send store.example.com to whatever IP address store.example.com is at via just simple A record on host A dns that houses example.com, or if say store site is hosted at otherexample.com you could use a cname to point store.example.com to otherexample.com

Lots of ways to skin a cat - you could even do frames if you had to to make it look like your own example.com/store but really serving up otherexample.com off of example.com/store

etc.. etc.. etc..

store.example.com would indeed work for me.

So lets see (might not have understood correctly so bear with me here....)

I have my current domain example.com with Provider A ( http://www.arsys.net/ ) which also hosts my website. I dont want to transfer any of this.

Provider B ( http://www.ovh.co.uk/shared_hosting/shared_web_hosting_business_250gb_traffic_unlimited_technical_sheet.xml ) allows me to have subdomains which I understand would be (seeing as I own example.com) store.example.com .

Correct?

Im not sure if I can use cnames since the data wont be actually on my machines (reason why they are hosted); If you can expand...

But I do admit that I like and if possible would use store.example.com

Which by extension I can have (if I have various stores) hosted on Provider B:

brand1.example.com

brand2.example.com

brand3.example.com

which use the same DB (this is related to Magento ecommence)

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Exactly..

I think you misunderstand the term cname

CNAME is just a dns alias

So for example you have store.example.com, I could point an alias or cname on a different domain lets say alias.domainX.com to store.example.com

So if you tried to go to alias.domainX.com, it would really be going to store.example.com -- this has nothing to do with where data is, etc.

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Its sad when you pay for support and the guy is sighing 10 times in a row to each question you ask to the point you actually have to ask for someone else to attend you....

That being said, after the guy gave me the information, I THINK I correctly configured it. I'm waiting for the DNS to update and tomorrow upload content and test out....

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It seems DNSs havent updated (my subdomain after changing it still points to the same address....)

Using a cname, could I point

subdomain.domain.com

to

subdomain.domain.com/subdomain

Curiosity....

Ignore that :p Thought it thru and it is impossible....

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