WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Best way to have a forum on my site? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Best way to have a forum on my site? en Sat, 25 May 2013 17:19:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-788971 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:32:42 +0000 jakerobertfavre 788971@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you very much. I will contact them right away. Everyone, thanks for your help!

]]> dllh on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-788186 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:39:03 +0000 dllh 788186@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. The DNS seems to be correct now on our end. Congratulations on getting the CNAME set up (it's tricky stuff). It looks like something may not be set up correctly on the forumotion side. I show them forwarding tubbycraft.forumotion.ca to the CNAME q52.dnspro.org, which does not display your forum. It's weird that browsing directly to tubbycraft.forumotion.ca displays your web site while following the new CNAME record does not; maybe there's something that the forumotion DNS doesn't like about doing duplicate CNAMES, or maybe they need to set up some additional configuration on their end. At any rate, I think that at this point, you'll need to get forumotion tech support involved. I would say something more or less like this:

I have set up the following DNS record to forward forum.tubbycraft.com to tubbycraft.forumotion.ca:

CNAME forum tubbycraft.forumotion.ca.

The resulting DNS lookup appears as follows:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
forum.tubbycraft.com. 3258 IN CNAME tubbycraft.forumotion.ca.
tubbycraft.forumotion.ca. 172458 IN CNAME q52.dnspro.org.
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.24
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.25
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.20
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.21
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.22
q52.dnspro.org. 47 IN A 174.36.29.23

When I visit http://forum.tubbycraft.com/, I am forwarded not to my forums but to http://forum.forumactif.com/ (which is also using dnspro.org for DNS). Can you help me investigate why the CNAME is not forwarding properly?

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787988 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:17:51 +0000 jakerobertfavre 787988@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, and even when I put .ca, it brings me to that odd website.

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787868 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:35:07 +0000 airodyssey 787868@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You said it yourself a few days ago:

The link to my forum is http://tubbycraft.forumotion.ca/

Is that not the forum you want your CNAME record to point to?

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787152 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:54:47 +0000 jakerobertfavre 787152@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So let me get this straight - the CNAME is supposed to have a .ca at the end? If my website has a .com, shouldn't the CNAME also have a .com?

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787118 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:48:47 +0000 airodyssey 787118@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

That is because even with the .ca, it brought me to that other weird website.

To the best of my knowledge, CNAME changes are not instantaneous; they can take an hour to be effective. Can you try waiting? Please?

And my website is tubbycraft.com.

I heard you the first time.

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787110 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:21:35 +0000 jakerobertfavre 787110@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And my website is tubbycraft.com.

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787109 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:20:49 +0000 jakerobertfavre 787109@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That is because even with the .ca, it brought me to that other weird website.

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787060 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:55:07 +0000 airodyssey 787060@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You put .com instead of .ca

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-787055 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:45:55 +0000 jakerobertfavre 787055@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ CNAME forum tubbycraft.forumotion.com.

That is what I put.

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-786169 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:23:46 +0000 airodyssey 786169@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What is the exact DNS record you copied-pasted on your WordPress.com dashboard? (Including punctuation and everything)

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-785814 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:56:19 +0000 jakerobertfavre 785814@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

I've tried assigning the CNAME: forum to tubbycraft.com

I have waited for a few days and all it does is redirect me to this website, not mine: http://forum.forumactif.com/forum

I want it to go to my forum, and I want it to say forum.tubbycraft.com

Help!

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-784047 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:39:40 +0000 jakerobertfavre 784047@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

the link should go straight to your forum.

The link being the forum.tubbycraft.com?

]]> raincoaster on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site/page/2#post-784036 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:28:41 +0000 raincoaster 784036@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Now wait up to 72 hours for that change to register all around the internet. Once it's done that, the link should go straight to your forum.

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-784025 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:11:13 +0000 jakerobertfavre 784025@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes I did but I still don't really understand the coding part.

1. So I went to my dashboard and navigated to custom DNS records
2. I pasted the code you gave me into the box.
3. It says "custom DNS records saved."

Now what?

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-784019 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:06:06 +0000 airodyssey 784019@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes. Did you read the link I gave you?

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-784003 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:28:23 +0000 jakerobertfavre 784003@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So I just paste that code into the box?

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783938 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:18:21 +0000 airodyssey 783938@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry, that should be:
CNAME forum tubbycraft.forumotion.ca.
(No http://)

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783936 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:17:17 +0000 airodyssey 783936@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Try this:
CNAME forum http://tubbycraft.forumotion.ca.

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783934 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:11:13 +0000 jakerobertfavre 783934@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you, but I'm ashamed to say that I still do not understand. I am not code savvy. Would you be able to show me how to add it? What is the code I would type in to make: http://forum.tubbycraft.com/ ?

Sorry again!

]]> airodyssey on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783884 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:39:08 +0000 airodyssey 783884@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is how to create a custom DNS record. Please study this, and if you're still having problems creating a CNAME record, don't hesitate to come back here.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/#adding-custom-dns-records

And in response to your question...

Bump? Sorry if im not allowed to do this...

Not forbidden per se, but frowned upon here. So try to avoid it in the future :-)

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783817 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:03:22 +0000 jakerobertfavre 783817@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Bump? Sorry if im not allowed to do this...

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783427 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:28:37 +0000 jakerobertfavre 783427@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Okay, so I've successfully navigated to the "Custom DNS" part of my blog's dashboard.

Now, I'm not the most code-savvy person in the world. I've pulled some information from my forum provider on how to do this:

I have already a homepage, can I link a subdomain with my forumotion board?
[ex.: forum.my_domain.com]

Yes, of course - it's almost the same procedure as above. Just assign the CNAME to your subdomain instead:

When you choose the sub-domain which you wish to use on your forum (forum.my_domain, for example, is a sub-domain of my_domain), you have to create the corresponding CNAME entry in the DNS administration of your domain: a CNAME entry allows to point an url towards the other one in a transparent way. That way, you can link forum.my_domain with forumotion board YourForum.forumotion.com.

Any recorder of domains names possesses different interfaces, and thus different methods to create such CNAME. However, in a general way, the process takes place as described below:

Connect to your user account on the site of your domain name provider, and go to the DNS management.
Check that the chosen sub-domain is not already used.
In the generally entitled field "source", "origin", or "alias" enter the prefix of sub-domain (i.e. "Forum" if you want to use the sub-domain forum.my_domain).
In the generally entitled field "destination" or " target host ", enter the original url of your forum, address.my_forum.
You will maybe have to inform the TTL (Time To Live): define the maximal possible value here.

The link to my forum is http://tubbycraft.forumotion.ca/. I want to make it so that (like I said above) I can put that on my blog, and when it is clicked, it directs the user to my forum and the url of the forum at the top of the screen is http://forum.tubbycraft.com/

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783178 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:03:38 +0000 jakerobertfavre 783178@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you all for your help. Please keep this topic open until I actually succeed in doing this, because I may need to ask more questions. You are all very helpful. :)

Jake

]]> auxclass on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783173 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:44:20 +0000 auxclass 783173@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

But I want the URL to have forum.tubbycraft.com when the menu is clicked. Is this even possible?

One forum also says yes you can do that -

http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=support&thread=407221&post=4711819

]]> timethief on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783172 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:43:34 +0000 timethief 783172@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I knew that but it slipped my mind.

Mapping a subdomain with the Domain Mapping Upgrade costs $12.00 per subdomain, per blog, per year.

]]> raincoaster on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783170 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:40:03 +0000 raincoaster 783170@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I didn't think it was possible either, but then I checked again.

]]> timethief on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783167 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:33:10 +0000 timethief 783167@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I apologize for missing the boat. :(

]]> timethief on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783166 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:31:44 +0000 timethief 783166@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The forum you created has a URL and that's the only URL it can have. The URL is irrelevant to anyone who is on the blog itself as you create a custom menu and in it your include that link. The result will be a Forum tab in the horizontal menu along with Home
About
Forum
Join Server
Ranks
Rules
and when that "forum tab is clicked your visitors will be in your forum.

]]> jakerobertfavre on "Best way to have a forum on my site?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/best-way-to-have-a-forum-on-my-site#post-783164 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:29:07 +0000 jakerobertfavre 783164@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I love you. Thank you so much.

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