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Help with CNAME on Namecheap Please ! (10)

07-23-2014 10:37 PM #1 fontavals (Member)
Help with CNAME on Namecheap Please !

Trying to set up my mobile Lander on Rackspace so i have followed IamAtilla's awesome guide here
(http://iamattila.com/media-buying-10...ding-pages.php)

But:

I got stuck when trying to set CNAME on namecheap
http://imgur.com/edit

Namecheap is giving me this:
http://imgur.com/XPzIEmO

I don't know where i messed up to get this message:

"
Improper records were NOT saved!
There were issues with some records and they were either set to default or completely removed. Please review the issues below and update again appropriately.
INVALID_ADDR: 'http://2dffb11efd5b72e0ff-cdb09f26e63dcea33a7aa04685ccf09d.r57.cf5.rackcdn.c om' should not be an IP/ URL for CNAME record. (host name: www)"

.......

07-23-2014 10:50 PM #2 zeno (Administrator)

CNAME entries do not have a protocol in them, remove the http://

07-24-2014 08:16 AM #3 fontavals (Member)

Zeno cheers Bruv ,



I am a bit confused where iAmAtilla's guide says :

amazing guide Atilla,

Part3: "Upload your files, making sure you name the lander index.html"

Imobitrax requires us to save index page as php or am getting this wrong ....?

07-24-2014 08:44 AM #4 zeno (Administrator)

I don't use iMobiTrax.

But, if you have to paste any PHP code on your landing page, then yes use a .php extension instead.

07-24-2014 01:51 PM #5 fontavals (Member)

I just had a chat with Rackspace support and they confirmed reason why page won't load

- Must be stored as index .html BUT Imobitrax requires:

- http://screencast.com/t/UsvRwVTR

Is there any way around this for those of you guys using Imobitrax ...?

07-24-2014 01:55 PM #6 durakadin (Member)

What other landing page tracking options do you have?

07-24-2014 02:03 PM #7 yacht (Member)

yeah the rackspace cdn won't run php (or anything other than html/js as far as I know) so you can't host the php page there. put the php page on your server and put images and other assets on the cdn.

07-24-2014 02:22 PM #8 fontavals (Member)

Thanks guys,

@redux, could you please elaborate a bit further on how to do that if you don't mind please..?

- Do i host the index.php file on my liquidweb server under different domain..?
- How do i lnink this two up (the index page on Liquidweb and other assets on cdn-Rackspace) with the images and other files hosted on CDN ?

07-24-2014 02:54 PM #9 yacht (Member)

sure thing. yep, so index.php will go on your liquidweb server, so whatever domain you have pointing there, or you could create a new one if you want.

in your index.php, where you have a link to a pic or script, instead of pointing to a local file (src="pic.jpg") just point it to the public url for the file that rackspace gives you (src="http://dsfadsfadsfasdfads.rackspacecdn.com/pic.jpg"). to see that, click the little gear next to the file in the rackspace console.

although if your server is in the same geo as where you are advertising, you might try just hosting the images on your server too unless they are large or there are a lot of them.

07-24-2014 04:19 PM #10 fontavals (Member)

@redux, you my friend are a legend - Thanks!

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