Something must be wrong with my DNS settings as I’ve been trying since Friday to setup my hosted site. // @Manton
@JohnPhilpin for the longest time I’ve considered myself to be IT literate, both hardware and software. I’m not a programmer but I’ve developed an instinct for diagnosing which settings need to be set, which hacks made or recently terminal commands need to be run. But this is an enigma. Without instruction or any guidance, I’m lack a cat bashing keys on a keyboard. Considering one of the wider impact goals of Micro.blog is users running their own domains, the setup process could and should be less opaque.
@derekpeden If you've not seen this, it could be useful: help.micro.blog/2015/cust...
Hard to tell from the DNS screenshot, but it doesn't look to me like micro.derekpeden.com is pointing at derekpeden.micro.blog using that CNAME.
Your CNAME record should look like this:
micro.derekpeden.com. -> derekpeden.micro.blog.
For the host field you'd enter micro (it should assume the rest of your derekpeden.com domain automatically if you don't include it) for you and the value should be derekpeden.micro.blog
micro.derekpeden.com is currently an A record that looks like this...
micro.derekpeden.com. 13813 IN A 77.104.131.211
As you've discovered, that doesn't work :)
Hope I'm not just muddying the waters!
@jack Thanks Jack. I've tried numerous combinations, including those ones. I'm now wondering if it's something else // @JohnPhilpin @Manton
@jack UPDATE : It's working now, I just don't know for how long. Just that I get the same error when I try to set the domain and it doesn't show it in my micro.blog account // @JohnPhilpin @Manton
@jack Sorry, I'm an idiot. I'm looking at my micro.blog page. It's still not re-directing. // @JohnPhilpin @Manton
@derekpeden Are you trying to give micro.blog a custom domain to use with their hosting? Or are you running your own site & wanting to post to it with the micro.blog app? I have my WP site as my site here, which is the second approach. All I did was configure the app to point to my site. You almoat seem to be trying to do both.
@vanessa I created a WP site last Friday night (🎉!) and then transferred my domain from WP.com. (In hindsight I should have transferred the domain registration weeks ago.) Since then I’ve been trying to find the magic incantations necessary to make Micro.blob post there.
@derekpeden Well if your site is working & you can post there (say from the WP admin panel), then all you should need to do is point the micro.blog app at your domain, from within the app, in settings. Pretty sure that's all I did.