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Bette Orr

9 Years Ago

Help With Aw

I need help......not being computer savvy, I asked the webmaster of the hosting company for my personal website to point www.betteorr.com to my aw site, which he did. Now when someone goes to www.betteorr.come it takes them to my aw site. Now, the problem is that I have no idea how to make the aw url address www.betteorr.com, rather than the aw url address. Could someone please explain to me in simple dummy language how to accomplish this?

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Greg Norrell

9 Years Ago

Bette - Abbie has a useful tutorial at the link below:

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2014/10/25/custom-domains-artist-website/

 

Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

Bette - if www.betteorr.com takes you to your aw site - that's the URL. you might need to include the http://www , but I don't think so.

If you are talking about changing the address as you see it when you click on Premium Site - I don't think it can be done as that is FAA's url for the site.

 

Greg Norrell

9 Years Ago

Yes Roy, it can be done with the new sites.

 

Bette Orr

9 Years Ago

Thanks, Greg - but...... I have gone to Abbie's link, and it leaves me completely baffled! As I said, I need the simple dummy version. I really do not understand it. I did go to the behind the scenes on my aw site and changed the domains to www.betteorr.com. Help!

Thank you too, Roy, but I've seen where other FAA members have done this to their aw sites.

 

David Bridburg

9 Years Ago

Bette,

Edit: Make sure you read this whole message. I figure out what you were writing about by the bottom.

Both betteorr.com and the original AW URL will work.

You can advertise either one. My preference would be betteorr.com for ads.

Or on cards handed out to friends etc.

Both are still there. You choose after the redirect was implemented which
one you want to use.

http://bette-orr.artistwebsites.com/index.html

Bette, you took a risk with your blues in making this site. I like the outcome. It is
one of the most professional outcomes I have seen. I like your as well. It is well
showcased here on the AW.

Bette, now I see your problem clearly. The AW URL is what I copied.

You probably need to go BEHIND THE SCENES, and in the top layer of selections
go to CUSTOM DOMAIN NAMES in order to change your domain name URL.

Did you not change it there?

Dave

 

Bette Orr

9 Years Ago

Hi David! Yes I did go BEHIND THE SCENES to CUSTOM DOMAINS and change it to www, betteorr.com. When someone goes to www.betteorr.com, the url changes to read bette-orr.artistwebsites.com/index.html ..........I want it to remain as www.betteorr.com. As an example, the url address in Greg's site is what I want to accomplish......

Anyway, thank you for the kudos!

 

Alexis Birkill

9 Years Ago

Unfortunately Abbie's link is really as simplified as it's possible to make this process. Can you ask the person who did the original redirect to follow these instructions for you?

 

Greg Norrell

9 Years Ago

Bette - where is your personal domain registered? As Alexis mentioned, Abbie's instructions are quite thorough. But if you are using Godaddy, maybe I can provide more specifics.

 

TL Mair

9 Years Ago

This is what I did, I have my domain registered with Godaddy, but I would think the others would be the same.
I called them on the phone explained what I was trying to do and they walked me through it.
That is what I would advise, it took me a week before I gave up and called Godaddy, after that it took 10 minutes.
I hope this helps

 

Bette Orr

9 Years Ago

I'm using Mister.net - guess I will have to contact them again for help! Just thought there was something to be done from this end that I wasn't understanding since Mister.net did point my personal website name here. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions!

 

Greg Norrell

9 Years Ago

Good luck Bette. There is something to be done on this end, which I believe you have done. The three basic steps are (1) from the AW Behind the Scenes set the new custom domain name, then (2) from the place where the domain is registered, the DNS Zone file needs to be edited to create an A record pointed at the IP address for your AW, and (3) a CNAME record needs to be created in the DNS Zone file to point the site to your AW. I imagine tech support for your provider can walk you through that easily enough. Again, good luck.

 

Robert Kernodle

9 Years Ago

I do NOT understand the problem. You pointed one website to another, and this is exactly what happens.

The URL that appears in the browser when you arrive is exactly the URL that you pointed to, as you instructed the webmaster to do.

You pointed ... www.betteorr.com ... to your aw site. When someone types in the www.betteorrcom URL, they arrive at the aw site, with the www.betteorr.com address in the browser rectangle. This is what "pointing" means. Pointing does NOT change the name of one site to another. You cannot point your www.beteor.com to your aw and then expect FAA to reference it as you pointed it. There really is no need for this anyway. You have accomplished what you wanted, by making YOUR OWN domain name the path to your FAA website, which is the FAA url by default.

Your own domain name gives you added credibility for people who find your art by means of using it. It is the URL that you would put on a business card, for example, or on any other promotional material that you might use. The people who get to your art this way would never know that FAA has a default URL towards which you are pointing your own domain name. For FAA, the aw default URL is the address that the coders assigned so that they could even create your FAA website - this is how it is programmed for THIS website. How you use what has already been done for you, then, is up to you.

For FAA and the coders who did all the work to get your aw site up, the FAA default URL is the address. For YOU in your professional presentations, your own domain name in the URL is the address.

FAA made it. You decide how to use it. Does this help?

 

Bette Orr

9 Years Ago

Robert, I understand what you are saying, BUT if I simply type www.betteorr.com into a blank url it correctly takes me to the aw site, as it should. BUT the url changes to bette-orr.artistwebsites.com/index.html which would lead a customer to possibly believe they were led to an incorrect website. Anyway, I have written the webmaster of my hosting site and see if he can do anything about it. If not, I will drop the whole matter, never to give it another thought!

I really do thank all of you for help and suggestions! Probably no need for further discussion, so will close this discussion.

 

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