We are well on that road now.
I’ve expained this over 5 times and I literally cannot reiterate it in any other way
www.techmasterdesign.com -> should point to root /var/www/index.html and root dir as it does
www.groupfinder.cc -> should point to /var/www/groupfinder on the webserver, this can be accomplished by forwarding it to http://gscottmalibu.mynetgear.com/groupfinder (dynamic DNS), or http://www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder (godaddy domain)
I just don’t want to use godaddy masking because if someone copies the www.groupfinder.cc/thread-4.html URL, the contents after the / in the URL will be ommited, because of masking :(. Also, i’d prefer if the www.groupfinder.cc website didn’t have techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder displayed in the URL bar, i’d prefer it to have groupfinder.cc displayed in the URL bar.
I also want to modify my .htaccess somehow, or do whatever I have to do so that certbot will recognize the www.groupfinder.cc domain
Also, I can’t use a subdirectory in a CNAME (so i can’t add gscottmalibu.mynetgear.com/groupfinder or http://www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder to the CNAME WWW value, because it will only accept a root level domain, without a subdirectory.
One thing i’ve tried was creating a subdomain on www.techmasterdesign.com, called groupfinder.techmasterdesign.com. This subdomain (groupfinder.techmasterdesign.com) points to www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder. The CNAME WWW value accepts subdomains, and I set this up but it just returned an error 404.
STOP repeating yourself.
None of that makes any (complete) sense to me.
Simply answer the questions and we will get to where you want to be soon enough.
Again:
What domain names do you have?
If you can’t understand then you can’t help. I can’t explain it in any other way. Even godaddy said they understand what i’m trying to do but don’t know how to do it.
groupfinder.cc should not be a forward, but its own domain so that when people goto www.groupfinder.cc in a browser, the url bar reads “www.groupfinder.cc” not www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder.
Do you want help?
Do you understand my English?
Let me try to answer it for you:
You have a domain:
techmasterdesign.com
You want a folder of that domain to have its’ own domain name.
And you want people to go to that second name directly; but to access the folder of the first domain.
Correct so far?
yes pretty much but it sounds so much simpler than execution.
Because you chose the wrong way to execute it.
That’s all.
You choose a path that is impossible to get done right.
Here is a much simpler path and one that can be executed correctly.
But first:
Do you have any links within this folder that reference the first domain?
The current simple solution is to point the second domain to the same IPs or CNAME as the first.
Once it reaches the web server, it is up to the web server to serve the names from different location on that disk.
As an example of this:
If the first name is served from /etc/www/siteA
Then the second name would be served from /etc/www/siteA/folder
Yes there are links on the groupfinder.cc (second URL) that reference the first domain.
I’ve spent many hours on this and it is very frustrating. Most people online here only insult my understanding of domains/DNS records/certificates when it is not even my area of expertise, that’s why i’m here. Saying shit like “you don’t understand certificates” or “you don’t understand SSL configuration on apache” or “you chose the wrong way to execute it” is not going to help anything. This is obvious, this is why i’m here for help. Even “You are mixing DNS functions and WEB server functions like that are interchangeable.” I don’t know which functions I am mixing. I try my best to do things on my own, I even spent hours trying. I did a lot of it on my own, but I ran into an issue and I don’t know wtf to do. People at godaddy don’t know wtf to do. No one knows what the fuck to do, but they sure know how to tell me off lol. I’m sorry for being a noob. I just write C++, HTML, CSS and PHP code, I dunno a lot about DNS and certificates other than simple stuff. I’m trying my best. Please be patient with me. I try to explain myself well but it’s hard.
A. I haven’t insulted you in any way.
B. You are totally in the wrong forum for the help you need.
C. (and yet) I am “trying” to help you.
So the referenced links is an obstacle…
Can you modify the pages within that folder to NOT use self-referencing links?
[because now there are two selfs]
A. site1/folder
B. site2
thank you for the help I am very tired after working on this for 8+ hours and feel like a complete noob. It’s hard to explain exactly what i’m trying to do but you seem to be one of the only ones that actually understands “You want a folder of that domain to have its’ own domain name. And you want people to go to that second name directly; but to access the folder of the first domain.” The references to the first domain (on the second URL) are part of a forum, it might be plausible to change the links but i’m not certain (likely, it can’t be done).
Ignorance is not stupidity.
You simply don’t know about this as much as you would like or need to to get what you need done.
I got you!
I thought web programming was easy until now lol.
Let’s go over all the “tools” are our disposal:
What type of web server is it?
What O/S does it run?
What level of access do you have to that system?
Yeah! Just click the "alias" button!
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