When I go to PREFERENCES it states this:
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If you have your own domain name registered, you can configure it to become the address to your Home page and all your photographs.

Configuring your own custom domain is a two step process:

1. You need to setup the CNAME record at the place where you registered and host your domain. Examples of such registrars are Network Solutions, Go Daddy, Register.com, Yahoo, etc. Check with your registrar for the exact procedure but it usually involves editing DNS configuration and pointing or aliasing a subdomain to zenfolio.com.

   For example, to point photos.yourdomain.com to zenfolio.com, you need to create the following CNAME record in yourdomain.com:

   photos CNAME  zenfolio.com.

   NOTE: there should be no www in zenfolio.com.

   If you want your entire domain to go to your Zenfolio pages, you would need to create an A record pointing to our current IP address:

   @       A      64.62.158.18

2. Once you have the CNAME configured with your registrar, you need to give us your domain name below and save it as a preference.

The entire process may take up to 48 hours to propagate everywhere, so please be patient.

TIP: If you would like for both yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com to go to your Zenfolio pages, you need to setup both an A record and a CNAME record, but only www.yourdomain.com needs to be entered below. Once you do that, Zenfolio will automatically recognize yourdomain.com as a legitimate address as well.

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Please forgive me but I can't seem to get this to work.  Can someone dumb this down for me?  I have my own domain name, ratch.net and would like to have a subdirectory (which I have already created) to point to my zen page.

Any help is appreciated.  

Chris 

appstate98:

 Please forgive me but I can't seem to get this to work.  Can someone dumb this down for me?  I have my own domain name, ratch.net and would like to have a subdirectory (which I have already created) to point to my zen page.

Any help is appreciated.  

Chris 

Hi Chris,

Subdirectories cannot be mapped. Subdomains can. So in other words http://ratch.net/gallery cannot be mapped but http://gallery.ratch.net can. The closes you coud get to your desired result is to redirect any requests to http://ratch.net/gallery to http://appstate98.zenfolio.com. I did the subdomain mapping (galleries.yoorek.com) and it works great.

Hope this helps 

 How long does it take to go in effect?  It said it could take 48 hrs.  Is that accurate?

Also, I created photos.ratch.net.  How do I get my zen page to go to that? 

appstate98:

 How long does it take to go in effect?  It said it could take 48 hrs.  Is that accurate?

 Also, I created photos.ratch.net.  How do I get my zen page to go to that? 

Hi,

I assume that you have created photos.ratch.net at your DNS provider (I am with dyndns myself) . You can check it yourself using nslookup under windows. Just type nslookup photos.ratch.net and check the output. I just checked it myself and it seems that is hasn't been propagated yet.

What you are after is the following output. - 

> nslookup galleries.yoorek.com
Server:  xxxxxxxxx.com
Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    zenfolio.com
Address:  64.62.158.18
Aliases:  galleries.yoorek.com

When I check your address I get something else (i.e. no mention of zenfolio.com)

> nslookup photos.ratch.net
Server:  xxxxxxxxx.com
Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ratch.net
Address:  66.226.64.12
Aliases:  photos.ratch.net

> nslookup ratch.net
Server:  xxxxxxxxx.com
Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ratch.net
Address:  66.226.64.12

As a matter of fact the two addresses are the same. This indicates to me that the alias has not been propagated yet. As far as the delay is concerned, yes it could take up to 48 hours. Usually less. Just to make sure that you are not waiting in vane, could you tell me how you configured photos.ratch.net? 

Additional comment: I have tried to look up xxx.ratch.net and got the answer as well. It indicates to me that you have the 'wildcard' option set that maps any subdomain to your ratch.net domain. 

Hi appstate98,

Got back home from work, checked the photos.ratch.net and -- it works (sort of). nslookup  reports same IP address as zenfolio.com. That's a good start. All you have to do now is to login to your zenfolio account, go to preferences, custom domain and check 'enable custom domain' checkbox. Then in 'domain name' field enter photos.ratch.net then click on 'Test DNS Setup' button followed by a click on 'Save' button. Then you should be OK. BTW this feature is available to 'Unlimited' accounts.

CYA

 Got it.  Thanks!

Now, I have and had read this thread forward and back and still could not get it to work. I attribute that to my age and being somewhat computer illerterate. With the help of the support staff they finally got me  so my domain name works problem is you have to use the www.for example www.dunningtonphoto.com works dunningtonphoto.com does not and I would like it to work if possible. My domain is registered at godaddy.com and if needed I do have a screen shot of the setting at godaddy. So if anyone can give me a poke as to how to make it work it surely would be appreciated.

Too many years with a camera in my hands meant never really learning the nessesary computer information.

Ron 

Hi Property1:

Out of curiosity, what did you do to make it work? I'm using a solution to map both sherwoodimagery.com and www.sherwoodimagery.com to my Zenfolio gallery, but I'm not sure it's the best way.

Thanks!

I just had to say thanks, the directions you gave on how to configure a custom domain worked great thanks.

Hello,

Thank you for this discussion. I was wondering if anyone could quickly look to see if mine is configured correctly, i believe it is but wan to make sure :)

www.modernlifeisrubbish.org 

 Thanks for sharing that. All of the above directions confused me too.

Funny we have to go to Zenfolios biggest competitor to get answers to our questions!

I, too, am frustrating. Starting to feel like when I started playing with basic html code a few years ago. Argh!
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Goal: Direct my domain name www.el310.com (and el310.com) to my Zenfolio pages: www.elcom.zenfolio.com.
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Have tried several options: here's my latest config, which doesn't work any better than previous tries:
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A-Record
Host, or (Sub-)Domain: www.64.62.158.18.elcom
Target, or IP-Address: 64.62.158.16
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CName-Record
Host: www.el310.com
Target: www.310el.zenfolio.com
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Thanks for any help,
Eric Lassiter