I am attempting to sort out a website for my club and have hit
something of a brick wall, no doubt caused by my inexperience and lack
of knowledge..
The story so far …
I put together a website using iWeb.
I then visited www.whois.com and found that the domain name I wanted
was available and purchased it. The idea was to have my website hosted
on MobileMe. So far, so good. However when I attempted to set up my
Personal Domain on MobileMe, I was instructed to
Go to your registrar's website. Define web.me.com as the "www" CNAME
(alias) for your domain.
If you need help creating a CNAME, contact your registrar.
This I did and finally, after email help from their support desk in
some faraway land, I was then presented with:
Click A Records and in the next screen, click Add A Record.
There you would find 3 fields:
Host Name: Here the domain name, for which you are adding the A Record
for, would be pre-filled (e.g. yourdomainname.com). Now, if you wish
to add an A Record for my.yourdomainname.com, then you would have to
put in my the text box. If you wish to add A Record for just
yourdomainname.com, then you can leave this box blank.
Destination IPv4 Address: Here you would have to enter the IPv4 IP
Address of the Web Server, where you wish to host this domain name.
TTL: This is the Time To Live for this Record, in seconds. Any Server
which once queries this Record will query it again after this time
interval. The ideal TTL is 86400, which is 1 day. It can not be set to
less than 14400, i.e., 4 hours.
Click the Add Record button to submit your Record.
Herein lies the problem. I do not know what the IPv4 IP Address refers
to. MobileMe is presumably where I wish to host the domain name but …
Can anyone help? I am under the cosh at the moment as we have to get
this website up and running as we have an Open Day and an Open Race
Meeting in late September and need to have our website live. I really
don't want to wait for their email support to come back in another day
or two.
Martin
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex
Mac User Group" group.
To post to this group, send an email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected].
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
