Point DNS to Sandstorm WordPress site

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Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 25, 2016, 4:33:08 PM1/25/16
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Hi!

I'm trying to connect my domain to a Sandstorm WP-installation. I don't get it... do I have to edit something in WordPress or is the DNS-settings wrong? My domain host helped me set this up and I got no DNS experience at all =/

See attached images for settings and error!

Thanks in advance!


Jason Paryani

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Jan 25, 2016, 4:53:40 PM1/25/16
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Your TXT record has a slight typo in its subdomain. Instead of `sandstorm-www`, it should read `sandstorm-www.www`. This is because the subdomain you're trying to setup is `www`, and the `sandstorm-www.` part needs to be pre-pended to that. I know, it's a lot of www's all over the place :)

It's easier to understand when your subdomain isn't `www`. For example, the records you would add if your domain was `host.example.com`:

Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 25, 2016, 5:05:08 PM1/25/16
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Thanks Jason, `sandstorm-www.www` works great!

Michael Nutt

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Jan 25, 2016, 5:49:09 PM1/25/16
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I also got tripped up by this initially. Would it be clearer if it was something else, like perhaps `sandstorm-web` or `sandstorm-static`?

Michael


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Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 26, 2016, 5:18:18 AM1/26/16
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I think a couple of dummy-examples would be great.

Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 26, 2016, 6:02:41 AM1/26/16
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Have you guys had any problems with posts? My pages works with the right URL but posts are linked with the sandcat URL. 

Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 26, 2016, 10:33:53 AM1/26/16
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Okay, this is strage!
No posts works if there is no post in the menu. but if there is one in the menu, everything is working. 

Error: 404 not found: /category/postname/index.html

Off topic. Why do every page/post have to have /index.html ? Is it not better to just name it to .htm or .html ?

Best Regards,
Otto Fredriksson

Asheesh Laroia

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Jan 27, 2016, 7:54:07 PM1/27/16
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Otto Fredriksson <fredriks...@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, this is strage!
No posts works if there is no post in the menu. but if there is one in the menu, everything is working. 

Error: 404 not found: /category/postname/index.html

Hi Otto! I'm not sure yet, but if you can provide steps to reproduce (even better - a grain backup) on the GitHub repository for https://github.com/dwrensha/wordpress-sandstorm (when GitHub comes back online again) that would be great.

 

Off topic. Why do every page/post have to have /index.html ? Is it not better to just name it to .htm or .html ?


This is because WordPress likes to use this "permalink" format:


and the best way to do that, in a cross-browser way, is to make /page-title be a directory and /page-title/index.html contain the actual data.


Otto Fredriksson

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Jan 29, 2016, 4:35:20 AM1/29/16
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I'm using Divi as theme, that's pretty much it!

Devin Balkind

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Apr 14, 2016, 4:22:12 PM4/14/16
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I'm having an issue with this as well.

My intention is to put my WP site here: welcome.floworking.org

I receive the following error:

Host "sandstorm-www.welcome.floworking.org" must have exactly one TXT record.

My DNS file is pasted below:

$ORIGIN floworking.org.
$TTL 1800
floworking.org. IN SOA ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.floworking.org. 1460664836 10800 3600 604800 1800
floworking.org. 1800 IN NS ns1.digitalocean.com.
floworking.org. 1800 IN NS ns2.digitalocean.com.
floworking.org. 1800 IN NS ns3.digitalocean.com.
floworking.org. 1800 IN A 159.203.166.165
*.floworking.org. 1800 IN CNAME floworking.org.
krs._domainkey.mg.floworking.org.floworking.org. 1800 IN TXT k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQC2nY4UwWntOsvObhV8hVNRPNtP0fvUYErVpCJc/SUnmcEvjo72vd6BjIHiZp+TuuZ7KrNA7IN4HnIZEMtEkwI4lLaIeChPcQda65N/ZhuQcshFd5qOqb9LQfuVjkuoi7JxDypFMhTVmvm+X4RXMk0k7XrYIxYC9y6K047pQw+iIQIDAQAB
email.mg.floworking.org.floworking.org. 1800 IN CNAME mailgun.org.
welcome.floworking.org.floworking.org. 1800 IN CNAME gv1sfrgobgd8738zf84r.floworking.sandcats.io.
sandstorm-www.welcome.floworking.org.floworking.org. 1800 IN TXT gv1sfrgobgd8738zf84r
floworking.org. 1800 IN MX 10 mxa.mailgun.org.
floworking.org. 1800 IN MX 10 mxb.mailgun.org.

I'm having issues getting email to work as well, but that's a post for another thread.

Thanks so much. So excited for Sandstorm!

Drew Fisher

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Apr 14, 2016, 5:07:31 PM4/14/16
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You appear to have a TXT record for:

sandstorm-www.welcome.floworking.org.floworking.org.

I suspect you want to have a TXT record set for:

sandstorm-www.welcome.floworking.org

instead.

Devin Balkind

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Apr 14, 2016, 7:54:08 PM4/14/16
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Brilliant. Way too many extra .floworking.org's everwhere. 

Thanks!
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