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A comment on the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

<snip>* Or, an A record to 77.244.245.130.</snip> I REALLY think this line should be added to the custom domain instructions: just CName this way, ARecord that way. I think it would clear up a lot of confusion! Regardless, thanks for your help on this. – Brad, on June 20, 2008 21:46

A comment on the discussion "The missing feature" in Las Indias:

Buenisimo :-D

Recien estoy empezando a aprender a programar, asi que por ahora solo podría colaborar en traducir.

Gracias :-) – fajro, on May 21, 2008 10:25

alx replied on May 21, 2008 09:36 to the discussion "The missing feature" in Las Indias:

Hola fajro, gracias para tus respuestas, feevy claramente necesita todo eso :)

Vas a ver cambios en las proximas semanas, esperando para ellos, puedes ver y participar al codigo de Feevy en http://github.com/alx/feevy/tree/master

Hasta luego!

Lukas Fittl replied on April 10, 2008 11:28 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Uhm, yeah.
It isn't documented right now :-)

I'll make sure we improve things here, there really should be proper documentation.

Richard replied on April 10, 2008 11:16 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Thanks for your swift reply. Answer #1 solves my problem, that's exactly what I wanted. The thing is, I couldn't find any reference on the soup.io site for setting it all up via A record instead of Cname. Is that actually documented anywhere?

Lukas Fittl replied on April 10, 2008 11:11 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

There seem to be 2 different problems here (correct me if I'm wrong):

1. You want mydomain.com to point to your soup (no subdomains):

That should work without a problem. See below for instructions.
Depending on your DNS provider, you might have to use an A record.

2. You want every subdomain + mydomain.com to point to your soup:

That's not possible right now.
You have to use an external redirection service that simply does HTTP redirects to mydomain.com.

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mydomain.com should have either:
* A CNAME record to soup.io
* Or, an A record to 77.244.245.130.

Then simply enter mydomain.com (without http://) in the Custom Domain field in the admin sidebar.

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Let us know if there are any further problems.

Richard replied on April 10, 2008 10:44 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Yes, same here as the two ones above. I just don't know how to do it. Right now, my base URL points to Tumblr, and only the soup subdomain to soup. Which is not exactly how I planned it to be. I've seen other domains that lead directly to soup, no subdomain or "www" in front, so it must work somehow.

Anyone?

jesse replied on April 10, 2008 03:36 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

I have the same problem as joseph - I want anyone who types in nowhereplains.com, no matter what the subdomain is, to get to my tumblelog at nowhereplains.soup.io.

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joseph replied on January 27, 2008 13:27 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Okay... I've set the cname for www.domain.com to point to soup.io.
In WHM, these are the settings:
www - 14400 - CNAME - soup.io. (with trailing dot)

Now, www.domain.com redirects to domain.soup.io, but domain.com still stays on the original domain.

Anyone knows what setting I'd have to put in WHM to get the non-www version to work?

alx replied on January 17, 2008 22:41 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Actually that's a neat tricky feature :)

Allowing people to build subdomains of streetr.net on soup.io, so they can share their passion for streetart too!

And if someone register a somestupidname.soup.io, I can always redirect it from the dns config panel :)

Lukas Fittl replied on January 14, 2008 16:18 to the question "Explaining custom domain" in Soup:

Hi there,

The most important part is the CNAME record that points to soup.io (your third listing).

You might want to use a specific name instead of *.streetr.net, e.g.

CNAME Record:
- source: soup.streetr.net
- destination: soup.io

Otherwise anyone could claim a .streetr.net custom domain.

For instance, if the star record existed right now, I could login to my soup, enter stupidname.streetr.net as my custom domain, and it would work.

Hope this helps, and thanks for providing some documentation about this feature.

alx asked a question in Soup on January 14, 2008 16:05:

Explaining custom domain

Hi Soup.io Team,

I'd like to have more information about custom domain feature, to make it run smoothly and have some basic doc for future users.

Here is the information I've got on my domain control panel:

A Record:
- source: streetr.net
- destination: some IP
A Record:
- source: www.streetr.net
- destination: some IP
CNAME Record:
- source: *.streetr.net
- destination: soup.io
CNAME Record:
- source: mail.streetr.net
- destination: some server

Is this configuration correct?