Updated 23/08/2011
Instructions for putting a new AccuBook website live:
Tasks to perform in extranet
Add www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com to the list of website addresses in the website builder "on website settings page"
Drag and drop the primary domain to the top of the list - the web builder will now redirect all requests to any website address assigned to this site to the primary address.
If the property has multiple domains e.g. .ie .com .co.uk they all should be added to the list of domain names in website settings, and the following dns changes should be applied to them all ( note only one email address needs to be created)
The following changes will not affect your emails, this will make your website address point to your new site designed by AccuBook.
Send the following information to the Property Contact/Hosting contact
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To point a website address to your new website, please make the following changes to your DNS settings ( this can be done in the control panel provided by your hosting company )
To point "www.yourdomain.com"
Remove the current A record for www.yourdomain.com
Create a CNAME record for www.yourdomain.com to www1.accubookwebsites.com
To point "yourdomain.com" (if linux hosting or web server supports htaccess files)
Create a file in the web root folder called ".htaccess"
put the following content in the file adding the appropriate domain name, this will redirec the non www. address to www.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^yourdomain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$
http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Emails:
The new website will need to send emails ( e.g. from the "contact us" page ). To do this, please create a new email address that can be used by the website, e.g. "website@yourdomain.com"
Please provide us with the following details of the new email account.
SMTP Server ( usually mail.yourdomain.com but may be something different )
Username ( usually the email address you created )
Password ( the password you entered when creating the new email address)
Note: Incoming email to this new email address should be forwarded to the property's main email address
Your hosting company should be able to assist you in updating the DNS records and creating the new email address.