Mobile Site Hosting Question

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Hello Warriors!

There's something that I recently heard was possible to do and I need the help of the awesome warriors here to figure it out.

Basically, I sold a mobile site to a local client.

In order to have control over the site, I know I need to host it.

I can easily install a redirect script to take mobile users from the client's site to my site, but I'd like to keep the visitors on the client's site instead.

In other words, my client's site is: www.Example.com

Mobile users should get redirected to: mobile.Example.com

But the mobile site that comes up is hosted at: myclient.MySite.com

I believe that it has something to do with DNS records, like A Record or CName records, but how do I set it up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jaime
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Jaime,

    Yes, you need to create a CNAME record.

    Some hosting companies allow you to do this yourself through an option called 'DNS Zones' in your cPanel. Other hosts won't allow you to do this so you will need to contact them to set it up.

    But you basically just make a CNAME record so that myclient.yourwebsite.com will re-route and show the website from mobile.theirwebsite.com

    The other way to do this is to purchase your client a .mobi domain name for their mobile site. So you purchase the domain for them, stick their mobile site on it, and the redirect script takes people to that mobi domain. This way you are still in control of their site but you don't need to host their mobile website on one of your domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Originally Posted by sminozzi View Post

    Hello,

    You need create a subdomain. (subdomain.mydomain.com)

    If you use cpanel, check for create a subdomain)

    Then, you need one script to check if your visitor have a mobile device and then send to subdomain. I have a php script to do that, send me a pm and i can send free to you.

    Regards,

    Bill
    He wasn't asking about creating a subdomain. He was asking about cnames.
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