I pay a web hosting company for a service. To login into the portal for this service I would go to the following (fictitious) address. http://www.why-me.com/help
I have my own registered domain. I would like to create a record that on the DNS for my domain that would redirect the traffic to the portal address above. something along the line as http://forward.domain.com would forward to http://www.why-me.com/help
I tried creating an A record for "forward" and assigning it to the ip address i was given for the portal site. But when trying to access http://forward.domain.com it redirects me to http://www.why-me.com. So I am getting to the main site, not my portal page.
I then tried to create a CNAME for "forward" and pointed it to the A Record. That also did not help.
If I had to guess, I think the ip address that the portal resolves to is a shared ip. Make sense?
If that is the case, I don't believe there is a way for me to achieve my goal using DNS. Is there an option to have the web hosting company point a static ip address to the folder that is running the portal? If so, is this option available on all web servers? I believe the web server is running iis.
Any direction you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I pay a web hosting company for a service. To login into the portal for this service I would go to the following (fictitious) address. http://www.why-me.com/help
I have my own registered domain. I would like to create a record that on the DNS for my domain that would redirect the traffic to the portal address above. something along the line as http://forward.domain.com would forward to http://www.why-me.com/help
I tried creating an A record for "forward" and assigning it to the ip address i was given for the portal site. But when trying to access http://forward.domain.com it redirects me to http://www.why-me.com. So I am getting to the main site, not my portal page.
I then tried to create a CNAME for "forward" and pointed it to the A Record. That also did not help.
If I had to guess, I think the ip address that the portal resolves to is a shared ip. Make sense?
If that is the case, I don't believe there is a way for me to achieve my goal using DNS. Is there an option to have the web hosting company point a static ip address to the folder that is running the portal? If so, is this option available on all web servers? I believe the web server is running iis.
Any direction you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks.
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