It worked!!

Thanks heaps guys!!

Anyway, the tech support guy was nice enough to recommend a company which has DNS services for free! http://www.zoneedit.com/

So here'a couple more screenshots from my zoneedit setup:
- CNAME
- IP Address

Does that look right??

So should i keep the nameserver pointing to "wikidot.com" (as shown in my screenshot earlier), or will this break it?

In a similar case, I had to email my tech support with this:

Please point my domain's CName record so that it resolves to "wikidot.com". If you need their IP number, it's 74.86.235.236

That did the trick.

Web hosting made easy! — must mean they keep you away from all those confusing buttons.

S.

I just had a look at my domain, it's http://www.mycommunityfirst.com.au/

The message i'm getting when trying to access it is:
"502 Bad Gateway… [code=DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND] The host name was not found during the DNS lookup."

It just doesn't look right, as if it's already tried to resolve it, but was not successful.

Well anyway, here's the screenshot of my domain nameserver setup:
nameserver

That's basically all i could setup, there is no where to add an IP.

It's weird, because the redirection from my domain works almost instantly, but when trying to use the wikidot integrated one, it just can't resolve it.

Well anyway, i'll check again tomorrow… but if you have any suggestions, maybe i've set it up wrong? don't know, thanks!

Good luck.

I seem to keep getting the following error in my wikidot admin > custom domain.

Oooops!

Sorry, it seams that the new domain does not resolve to a valid IP address. See the tips at the bottom of this page.

I also seem to be missing a step with my domain control panel (with my host company):

1. Set Nameserver to: 'wikidot.com'
2. Set host to IP: '74.86.235.236'

Now, i can do step 1, but i have no options for setting up step 2 (ie. i can't find where to add the IP address)

I've tried "creating a nameserver" with that IP Acddress, but it says it already exists so can't create it.

Should i just be waiting a little while longer for the doamin to set the 'wikidot.com'?

Or is there something else to it?

I think i finally figured it out.

I just needed to tweak the instruction for my host company (i'm not using godaddy).

I'll just have to wait for the DNS of my custom domain to be set to www.wikidot.com

Once that's completed, hopefully my problem will be resolved, thanks for your help!

Do i put my custom domain (www.XYZ.com) into the 301 redirect?

Off-hand it sounds as though you might have simply forwarded the domain you registered to the wikidot subdomain rather than using wikidot's built-in custom domain tool to integrate it.

Judging from the terminology you're using in this post though, you have at least seen the instructions at this howto. Did you follow them all, including the nameserver instructions?

Now, I go type in www.XYZ.com and it takes me to my wikidot site, no problem here
But when it login to wikidot on my site, it takes the address from www.XYZ.com to XYZ.wikidot.com.

Is there anyway to display the custom domain (www.XYZ.com) after logging in as well??

thank you for your reply. Yes, both sites are private and written in italian. I hope do open at least one, res.wikidot.com, to the public asap. If you like to have a glance, please send me an email and I wil provide password for access.
The other one I used to write and deliver classroom notes to my students at University of Sannio (some engineer's oddities). Should this material became appreciated and "checkproofed" I could decide to open also this site.
Hoping my images can newly visible soon !

Regards

No idea what is going on - could be the server upgrade and data replication has not yet finished all implications?
Hope Squark will read this soon…

And: try to mark with the mouse the "unvisible" fields with the drop down menu list….perhaps you can work "blind" ?

And .. is there ANY category or namespace you have NOT changed to bloo theme?

Than you can use the first technic to create an extra page within such category using only the line
[[module ManageSite ]]

and this page for the Site manager would use the "normal" theme for such category.

First of all my thanks for your effort in maintaining and improving this so good Wiki server. I am sorry to tell you that I experience the same problem. After the server upgrades all my attached images have been disappeared from both my sites. I uploaded them directly on that sites and worked perfectly (all them are png images), but now only the link to the image is shown when I charge a page. I also noticed that when the page is charging, my browser is redirected to mysite.wdfiles.com for some elements. Thinking about some broken link I have also tried to newly upload an image but nothing changes.
If I open the files menu at the end of the page, all link files are present and I can regularly reload the image from that list, but actually the images is loaded from the not so transparent mysite.wdfiles.com . This is still occurring now.

Regards,
Franco

Same thing with Permissions - I lost the area where I can setup the checkboxes on permissions. I can select the categories but nothing else. Is there a bug with this Bloo theme?

If i change my "admin" category to bloo theme and let the side bar selection on default - I can always change it back to whatever I want.

And change the ADMin category back to whatver I need - and the seconnd selection to clear without side bar…