2010-12-02T10:08:46+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501 AUGW info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ 2010-11-21T16:54:54+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2200 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ I have set up a Personal Domain on mobile me, using the domain name bartonhewsons.me.uk I have CNAME forwarding set up both for bartonhewsons.me.uk and www.bartonhewsons.me.uk pointing to web.me.com My homepage is called index.html and is in a folder called home in the Web/Sites folder of my iDisk so can be reached directly with http://bartonhewsons.me.uk/home or http://www.bartonhewsons.me.uk/home To cater for the /home being left of, the first page in my iWeb site re-directs to http://bartonhewsons.me.uk/home/ All of this seems to work fine from Safari and from Firefox on my iMac and also on my MacBook. BUT it doesn't seem to work with PCs using Explorer. Any ideas as to where I have gone wrong - please 2010-11-22T17:15:01+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2202 Mick Burrell info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ With the two links you've provided I think you need to put a final / after home. If that doesn't work, direct it to home/index.html You could ask Windows user to try those for you by manually typing before you redirect. 2010-11-24T09:00:51+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2206 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Thanks Mick, I admit that I have got quite lazy about those final / marks since browsers seem to cope without them nowadays. However, the problem turned out to be down to my lack of experience (or understanding!) in administering the domain name. The CNAME records I had set up were okay but, amongst the other records there which I didn't understand and left untouched, there was one (A record) which needed to be deleted to enable the CNAME forwarding to work properly. Thank goodness for the free easily.co.uk support line! - and thanks again Mick for recommending them. Now, if I could just sort out the e-mail forwarding. . . . 2010-11-25T00:15:51+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2207 Mick Burrell info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ That should be straightforward. If you want to use the email trevor@bartonhewsons.co.uk then in the email section of your control panel at Easily, on the left you put trevor and on the right, the email address where it will really go e.g. your mac.com address or wherever you want to collect it from. 2010-11-25T09:06:58+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2208 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Hello Mick. I have tried putting my yahoo address in the catch all window and also done exactly as you suggest and put my mac address in against a new record specifically for trevor@bartonhewsons.me.uk but still no joy. The chap at Easily said that getting rid of the A record would fix this too but it hasn't. In my DNS Management panel I now have two CNAME records and two MX records. The latter two are to easymx2.easily.co.uk and rhea.easily.co.uk both marked Priority 10. I have no idea what these records mean (presumably e-mail related) and and whether they should be there. I even began to wonder yesterday whether, as one who has only registered a domain name and not purchased a hosting package, e-mail forwarding was available to me at all? It's not really a big deal but it would be nice to sort it out. All part of the learning curve! Trevor 2010-11-25T09:35:53+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2211 Gordon Clyne info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ No hosting package = no active port 25 relay for mail. just purchasing a domain gets you nothing but the rights to the www.bartonhewsons.me.uk. name. 2010-11-25T20:59:59+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2214 Lionel Ogden info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ With my domain name which I bought from Fasthosts I get email forwarding to my normal plusnet account and it seems to work just fine. Is there a possibility that ther is some conflict between a .me.uk address and a mobile me account which I think is .me.com. 2010-11-26T18:08:38+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2218 Gordon Clyne info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Ok you didn't say you got email forwarding bundled, typically these services are separate but it depends on the ISP or service reseller. top level domains cant get confused by their nature, otherwise there would be net chaos. But humans can make typos !! 2010-11-26T21:34:52+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2220 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ I have been trying to post an update to this discussion on and off all day without success. Since Gordon has succeeded, maybe it is something in the content so I thought I would try something simpler just as a test. 2010-11-26T21:37:25+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2221 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Okay, that worked. I just tried the first para of my intended post and failed again so here's just the first two sentences: Okay, I have just spoken to Easily again and almost wish I hadn't! It appears that the reason the e-mail forwarding isn't working is that one of my CNAME records is corrupting my domain's zone record. Apparently it is okay to have a CNAME record for www.bartonhewsons.me.uk but not for bartonhewsons.me.uk. 2010-11-26T21:41:09+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2222 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Right, the problem seems to be in the next sentence which includes a couple of URLs so I will try re-phrasing it: Easily suggest deleting the offending CNAME record for bartonhewsons.me.uk and instead use web forwarding from it to www.bartonhewsons.me.uk. However this suggestion seemed to be made as a bit of an afterthought so I really would like to hear from anybody who has done something similar before I pluck up the courage to give it a go. The main reason for my hesitation is that my 'illegal' CNAME record is working at the moment and I have already communicated the 'sans www' version of the address quite widely and also used it internally between the iWeb and Freeway sections of my site. I don't relish the task of changing all of these to the www version but feel that I really should do so before experimenting further with the DNS setup. 2010-11-26T21:41:56+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2223 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Whew! If it helps, the error message I encountered was: The precondition on the request for the URL /discussions/view/502 evaluated to false. Apache/2.0.63 (FreeBSD) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.8 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.1 mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 SVN/1.5.5 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at www.wamug.org.uk Port 80 2010-11-30T15:03:28+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2225 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Okay, just to tidy this off: A helpful computer whizz friend found out the actual numerical address for web.me.com so I was able to replace the offending CNAME record with an A record and hey presto, the mail forwarding sprang into life. Magic! Today I have been playing around with Mail so that I can send from my domain name based e-mail address too. It's working okay but Mail wouldn't let me set up a send only account - it wanted an incoming server too. As a result I have an extra account showing in my inbox which is permanently offline. It's no hardship but does look a little untidy. 2010-12-01T12:56:50+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2227 Eric Jervis info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Love the hat Trevor! 2010-12-01T22:27:16+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2228 Mick Burrell info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ For Mail, if you want to use more than one address from one account, in the account details under preferences, enter the addresses separated by a comma follwed by a space. When you compose you'll get a drop down to choose the addess you want - or you can set one as default. 2010-12-02T10:08:46+00:00 https://www.augwessex.org.uk/discussions/view/501#2229 Trevor Hewson info@augwessex.org.uk https://www.augwessex.org.uk/ Thanks Mick, that's much neater! I had read about the multiple addresses with one account facility but for some reason, assumed that it only worked with addresses that 'belonged' to that account. To be truthful, I'm a bit shocked at how easy it is to send mail purporting to come from any address you might care to make up! Eric - thanks for the compliment(?) At least I know that the photo rollover on the home page is working, if nothing else!