Thread: What Next?

Hello out there in cyberspace,

I have spent the last week working with BV Support to transfer a domain name I had with Homestead (www.bubbeesbeads.COM) to BV where I have (www.bubbeesbeads.ORG) I believe the transfer is now complete. I have built and published a website on BV (the .org site) which has been up for about three months. I want to change it to read .com now that it was just transferred to my name.

So dear BV friends, What Do I Do Next??

Thanks, Mindy

All you have to do is create your .com as an addon site and it will point to your new .org site. This way when someone types in your site using .com or .org the same site shows up. There is a great tutorial on this in BV, it really explains it well.
Good luck

Hey Mindy... I was just looking at your site and I noticed your 'magnetic beads'. It would be a good idea to do some research on those beads which are really Hematite. Hematite is a naturally magnetic stone that is very popular right now. Besides being magnetic the Hematite is said to draw negative energy out of the body. I am a firm believer in this as my niece, who is the most negative person in the world can not wear Hematite for too long. The stones will break and crumble while she is wearing them.... Did I mention she was really negative?
The background on Hematite would be a good selling feature... I am sure you can google it and find tons of info.

There are two ways:
1. you can park the .com site. This way it will use the same files of the .org. Not very good for SE though.
2. You add the .com as addon. You take your .org site files, built in BV, you change all the links, so that they become .com, and publish all the files in the folder of the .com domain.

Thanks to you for the information ... However, you are dealing with a computer idiot!.... What does "park" my .com site mean? What is an "add-on"? Do you mean transferring all my pages to my .com parked site (whatever that means) and changing all the orgs to coms? Which Links to I change? How do I make one site point to another? I'm totally confused........by the way Dori, thanks for info on hematite. I certainly will look into it. :)thx again.............and HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP

Addon domain: a domain that is added on your hosting account. It is by all meand an independent domain, but shares the same disk space as your main one.

Addon domains are added in your account through your CP: click on Addon Domains and follow the wizard. This will also create a folder, inside your public_html, where you need to publish the pages for the new site (.com)

Park a domain instead is a procedure (always through CP) that makes it so that when a user triws to reach your .com domain, he gets the pages of the main account: in other words, the .com domain uses the same pages as your .org which is the main domain associated with your account.

Hello Naval, and Dori,
Did I do this correctly? If not, please tell me what to correct. thx. Mindy

Bind reloading on voda10 using rndc zone: [bubbeesbeads.org] The subdomain, bubbeesbeads.bubbeesbeads.org has been added.

Using nameservers with the following IPs: 216.40.47.18,64.97.159.10,65.22.7.10 Bind reconfiguring on voda10 using rndc
Created DNS entry for bubbeesbeads.com
bubbeesbeads.com was successfully parked on top of bubbeesbeads.bubbeesbeads.orgNotification => *****@vodahost.com via EMAIL [level => 3]
Syncing Ftp Databases....Done


bubbeesbeads.com has been setup. It can be accessed via the subdomain bubbeesbeads.bubbeesbeads.org. FTP access has been granted with the user name bubbeesbeads@bubbeesbeads.org and the password dreznik.

Hi Bubbee... that is way out of my league and someone with much more experience will have to weigh in on this one.

You are welcome for the info on hematite!

the .com is now set up as a sub domain on the .org.

Hi Beth,

Beth to the rescue again........:) Does this mean that if someone tries to use the .com address it will automatically transfer them to the .org site? thats great

buttttttttttttttttt.............

its not exactly what I wanted. I wanted to transfer everything to .com now that its a BV address. Is it possible to do that? What steps do I have to take? I am thinking that my hits will increase if people don't think I'm a non profit organization....lol

Thx, Mindy

Mindy, follow the directions given to you by Naval to do that.

2. You add the .com as addon. You take your .org site files, built in BV, you change all the links, so that they become .com, and publish all the files in the folder of the .com domain.

And just by adding the subdomain, everyone is not coming to the .org from the .com - you would have to redirect. But I do recommend you not do that and that you DO republish all the pages as .com - THEN go in and do PAGE redirects in your control panel from the .org to the .com for awhile. Eventually, you can just have the .org pointing to the .com.

I'll try Beth..........keep your fingers crossed.

Dear Beth,

Right about now I am feeling very ignorant. I tried, and I understand the terminology but don't know how to carry through on Naval's instructions. I know I have to resave, and republish, but WHERE DO I CHANGE THE .ORG TO .COM? I can't find it. I know I can do it if I have step by step instructions. Do I open a new index? file? clone?.,Please don't be annoyed and see if you can help me.
Thanks, Mindy

Actually, you can simply publish ALL the pages to the add-on domain - which means, call up each page, then click to publish - then change it from public_html to
public_html/bubbeesbeads

(this is confusing cuz both your domain names are the same - but they aren't LOL) Publishing to the 2nd one there will publish it to the .com

After the are ALL published and showing, you'll need to do redirects on all the .org pages/

Very confusing for me too. If i undrstood well from the above posts, bubbee has created a SUBdomain, and alsp PARKED the .com domain in this new subdomain ????? Why all this ? Then neeeding to redirect also ????? From the .org to the .com ?



Bubbee, maybe i have not understood well what you want to do. Would you mind explaining me excactly what you want to have, as domains, and how should they work ? Please answer these questions:

1. Do you want two independent domains, bubbeesbeads.org and bubbeesbeads.com ?
or
2. Do you want one of them to be the main domain, and the other automatically redirect visitors to the pages of the first one ?

Hi Naval,

okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay... here are the answers to the two questions

1. Eventually, I want ONE domain with the .COM ending.
2. I want anyone going to .org to be forwarded to .COM

Thought it was going to be easy.........OY VEY what have I gotten myself into? lol.

Thanks, Mindy

For Dori,

Check out the bracelets page. I added the information about Hematite as you suggested. Thanks, really appreciate it.

Mindy

The only part I think is confusing is that your names look the same because only the .com and .org change.

For the se's and because you are so new, I think you are best off republishing all the pages to the new .com domain - then redirecting the .org to the .com.

It's not a difficult procedure - just will take a bit of time.

And this is the ONLY procedure. As Bethers said, edit your links (in the site that you have built for the .org site) to point to the same pages, but with the .com ending, publish the pages in the com subfolder, then redirect the .org. site to the .com.

Excellent Bubbee! You might try putting Hematite into the description of your individual bracelets as well.

Hi Beth, Naval, Dori.......Just a simple question this time........This is a link to my home page in the .ORG domain name - - - - - -http://www.bubbeesbeads.org/index.html- - - - - -How would I adjust it when I republish?.......can you give me a sample please? Do I just change org to com, or stick another bubbeesbeads in there somewhere.Thanks, Mindy

on the index page, you don't want to put anything in links to the page except "http://www.bubbeesbeads.org or for the new you'll want .com - you do NOT need or want the /index.html on the index page in your links. To publish this page, you'll save it to your new .com files - and publish

On all the other pages, you'll take the page name - for example if you had a page: http://www.bubbeesbeads.org/funpage.html - the ONLY change will be the new link after publishing to .com will be: http://www.bubbeesbeads.com/funpage.html

The only changes are the .org all become .com - except get rid of the /index.html in links to the home/index page (which you didn't want to begin with)

Everything said pretty well. Just one thing: do NOT forget to create on your computer, a folder inside your BV folder,. when you open a page and edit it for the .com site, save it in this new folder. This way the original pages will remain intact if by any case you decide to keep the .org site as it is and you need separate (but identical) pages for the two sites.

Hello Bubbee,
Could you please explain me how it was with Homestead because I`m in the same situation now. After 4 weeks awaiting and replying I just received a confirmation from Homestead that my domains are unlocked.( I have asked about that 4 or 5 times!) Now I need some authorization key and have to update my name servers. I have to ask Homestead again!
How did you do that?
Honestly said , I have a panic because every confirmation from Homestead I have to wait for about 7-9 days ( I was a Platinum Member and every reply on my questions shoud be maximum the next day. It was.... but now....)
Thank you in advance
Marina

Originally Posted by amerauto

Hello Bubbee,
Could you please explain me how it was with Homestead because I`m in the same situation now. After 4 weeks awaiting and replying I just received a confirmation from Homestead that my domains are unlocked.( I have asked about that 4 or 5 times!) Now I need some authorization key and have to update my name servers. I have to ask Homestead again!
How did you do that?
Honestly said , I have a panic because every confirmation from Homestead I have to wait for about 7-9 days ( I was a Platinum Member and every reply on my questions shoud be maximum the next day. It was.... but now....)
Thank you in advance
Marina

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