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Using your own domain with Switchboard

Joel Moss — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:42:00 -0700

Comment #1

Joel Moss — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:42:00 -0700

Just received a good question in response to my post on the HPU:Switchboard

what about a doamin name, can i have www.mydomain.com or will it have an extension on it e.g. mydomain.tooum.com

Good question! It also allows me to introduce the first cool feature that will implemented early next week.

Custom Domains

By default, your Switchboard will be available at http://yourswitchboard.tooum.net which, thanks to our short domain, is not too hard to forget. However, you can customise this even further. If you have your own domain, you can simply create a simple CNAME record within your DNS zone records and then you will be able to access your Switchboard at your domain.

This feature is already implemented, but is not yet configurable via the admin area. So if you want to use your own domain or even your own subdomain and cannot wait until next week, simply drop me a line: joel [at] tooum.com and we will get that sorted for you.

Comment #2

S�ndor — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:58:48 -0700

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Comment #3

Joel Moss — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:24:38 -0700

Sorry, but English only please :)

Comment #4

Gustave Moire — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:22:50 -0700

how will this feature work? will it be a downloadable package of the software that we can upload to our own server/host; or will it still be hosted on your servers?

when is this going to be available?

Comment #5

Joel Moss — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:39:13 -0700

This Alias feature was implemented last week and is controllable via the Admin > Settings screen of your Switchboard.

It basically creates an alias of your Switchboard subdomain. So instead of joel.tooum.net you can go to joelswitchboard.com or whatever domain you want to use.

Comment #6

Gordon Rouse — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:40:30 -0700

it works on a subdomain of your domain (like mine @ team.thebusyproject.org.uk)

It works with the hosted service, which as far as im aware is the future of tooum. when they are 'joined' using CNAME, it integrates well into your own site though.

You tell tooum (in the ADMIN Settings) what your subdomain is going to be (team, for mine) and a few other litting bits of info, then you set up a CNAME in your domian control panel with the subdomain info and TOUM.net

It's incredably easy, and fast.

Comment #7

Joel Moss — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:15:36 -0700

It's incredably easy, and fast.

That is exactly what we are trying to make Switchboard.

Comment #8

bejoy — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:17:45 -0700

My blog is not working, my subdomain is bejoythomas.tooum.net and my domain name in which i have set the cname is blog.bejoythomas.com i have changed the cname record from my registrar to tooum.net and also set the space alias as blog.bejoythomas.com but the results are different, when i view the link blog.bejoythomas.com it shows somebody's blog ( something like espace). please help me out :-(

Comment #9

Joel Moss — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:05:42 -0700

Sorry about that, but all is fixed now. Please let me know if you any other problems.

Comment #10

bejoy — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:34:36 -0700

thanks joel, my blog now works smoothly, and your concept of integrating blog and forum rocks, its a good concept and it can stand to compete with wordpress and blogger.

Comment #11

Joel Moss — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:34:35 -0700

thanks joel, my blog now works smoothly, and your concept of integrating blog and forum rocks, its a good concept and it can stand to compete with wordpress and blogger.

Thankyou.

Comment #12

Phil Thetan — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:48:59 -0700

I'd rather have the software on my own server under my own top domain at my own database, just like I'm doing with Wordpress and phpBB and phpNuke.

I can't see any download section here, so I guess it's not possible. Reason for me not to go ahead with Switchboard.

Comment #13

Joel Moss — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:05:14 -0700

Switchboard is a hosted only service. We have no plans to allow the software to used on your own servers.

Comment #14

DD. — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:35:59 -0700

What I can't see easilly is the following: Can I truly integrate this service in my own site? I do not mean hosting it myself, what I mean is F.E. use PHP or simmilar tags to get content / interaction elements within my own page, where I place them? (more or less)

Comment #15

Joel Moss — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:17:37 -0700

What you are describing is not possible at this time, but we do plan on offering an API, which you will be able to use to interface direcly with your Switchboard data and integrate that directly into your site using your favourite scripting language.

At the moment, you will simply have to link to your Switchboard.