Use a custom domain and point to Tumblr blog
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My domain mydomain.com
is registered with GoDaddy. I wish to host my Tumblr blog on this domain with Nearly Free Speech hosting.
My active nameservers at GoDaddy already point to my authoritative ones at Nearly Free Speech which is working. However I'm baffled as to how to get my correct configuration to point to my Tumblr.
Preferably I'd like
(A) my domain http://mydomain.com
to host the blog and have http://www.mydomain.com
redirect also to http://mydomain.com
.
If this is too difficult my next preference is
(B) to have http://www.mydomain.com
host the blog whilst http://mydomain.com
redirects to http://www.mydomain.com
My third preference is to have
(C) a sub-domain like http://tumblr.mydomain.com
or http://tumblr.mydomain.com
to host the blog and I guess have http://mydomain.com
and http://www.mydomain.com
both redirect to it.
I've tried having two aliases mydomain.com
and www.mydomain.com
pointing to my permanent Nearly Free Speech IP at mydomain.nfshost.com
and when I try to add:
(1) an A record pointing mydomain.com
to the IP 66.6.44.4 as per Tumblr's instructions it tells me I already have the bare domain as an alias so I cant do that.
(2) the A record on the www.mydomain.com
alias.
I can do this with either www.mydomain.com
set as an alias or not.
But when I tried this with mydomain.com
set as the canonical name the result when visiting either mydomain.com
or www.mydomain.com
was both of them continually redirecting to each other until an error was thrown.
So I was wondering if there is a ninja that could save me some hair-pulling and tell me the correct way to config A, or else B, or else C.
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