By pscheffer
I have a blog for my website that I’m hosting on another provider using WordPress - http://theyfindmeblog.peterscheffer.com/
What I would like to do is have my DigitalOcean subdomain “how” point to that URL without having to redirect to it. I have created a CNAME to point to it for my theyfind.me droplet - how : theyfindmeblog.peterscheffer.com.
But the only way I can get it to work at the HostGator end is to create a redirect. Because otherwise HostGator is seeing a request for how.theyfind.me. I don’t want a redirect, I want how.theyfind.me to show the WordPress blog on the other host.
I’m running Ubuntu, and have Meteor using port 80 on my Droplet.
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Hi Scott,
That is what they appear to have done, except that it redirects to the URL. I’m looking for a solution where the end URL remains as how.theyfind.me and not theyfindmeblog.peterscheffer.com.
They have an A record pointing to the forwarding IP, and then a redirect from how.theyfind.me to theyfindmeblog.peterscheffer.com in the control panel.
Is there a way of setting it up so that the end URL is how.theyfind.me?
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