I wanted to point my domain hummy.org to my wikidot site.
I remember there was an option to do this in the past within wikidot…, not anymore, I think now is a paid feature.
I will show you what I've done to accomplish this through the godaddy.com control panel without paying anything.
Log into your godaddy's account and open the "Total DNS Control" for the domain you want to setup.
Change the address for the A record @
So it looks like this:
Host Points to:
@ 64.202.189.170
This change will make http://hummy.org point to godaddy's server.
Now we need to add a CNAME record for www.
We also want www to point to godaddy's server 64.202.189.170 so that http://www.hummy.org will be redirected to the place we want.
Since we will be setting a CNAME for www and a cname has to point to a name and not an ip address, we need to know the name associated with the ip 64.202.189.170
This is called a reverse lookup.
The reverse lookup for 64.202.189.170, returns: pwfwd-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
root@blackie:~# host 64.202.189.170
170.189.202.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pwfwd-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net.
Therefore according to this information, the www cname record has to be configured like this:
Host Points to:
www pwfwd-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
The last thing we have to do is to enable forwarding on godaddy's website.
When managing your domain, click on Forwarding:
Check the box "Enable forwarding"
On "Forward to" enter your wikidot address: http://hummy.wikidot.com
Select 301 or 302
Enable masking as well if you want.
Check the box "Enable masking"
Masked title: A description
Masked description Meta tag: Personal page mario
Masked keyword Meta tag: linux system administration network apache mysql postgresql howto
After finishing this steps, wait for a few hours and your domain will be forwarded correctly and without paying anything.
If you have doubts, please read the godaddy's help:
You have to follow the steps on this document and this document for setting the A record to point to godaddy's server.
And then have a look at this other document for setting up forwarding and masking and the meaning of 301 and 302 codes
The godaddy's forwarding feature takes a good few hours to work, and I mean up to 1 day, so be patient.
Good luck ;)
