Comments on: Using .htaccess to Domain Map Typepad

By: Anton Zuiker

Anton Zuiker — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for this info. Seems just what I need to be able to map zuiker.com to my TP blog (mistersugar.typepad.com/staging) - I mapped it TP’s way, through Dotster, and found out that all of my other content (family tree, archived photos, etc.) was suddenly unavailable.

My only question is this: in the code above, line 2, what does the ^blog/(.*)$ refer to a directory blog on your server or on your TP space? If it’s your server, how do I know what my corresponding directory should be?

Thanks again.

By: The Blinne Blog

The Blinne Blog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Scriptygoddess Guest Post: Using .htaccess to Domain Map Typepad
Check out my guest post on scriptygoddess. Here’s an excerpt:Typepad just added domain mapping. This allows you to point your domain at your blogs.com subdomain via DNS. I wanted this because I didn’t want my blog at blinne.blogs.com but rather

By: Rich Blinne

Rich Blinne — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Google found my stuff, so I am back to my old way.

By: Rich Blinne

Rich Blinne — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I verified my previous comment. If you don’t have your permissions right on .htaccess, Apache won’t allow you any access at all.

By: Rich Blinne

Rich Blinne — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

One downside that I am noting is that Google is not properly crawling my site. So, I am trying the variant of having [R=301,L] instead of [P] in my .htaccess. I also took out the domain mapping in Typepad.

A 301 redirect tells Google that my site has permanently moved. Hopefully, my Google page rank goes with me. I’ll let you all know if this works. The other upside is that my local ISP won’t charge me for bandwidth.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Apache is probably accessing your files as nobody. Make sure .htaccess is universally readable. Under UNIX this is:

chmod 644 .htaccess

If that still doesn’t work, most likely your ISP is not allowing you to use mod_rewrite.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Fixed. That was my faut.

By: Snowman

Snowman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m having great problems implementing this on my server. I’m told that mod_rewrite is installed, but when i put the first line into the .htaccess it gives me a “you do not have permission” message when accessing via HTTP.

Any suggestions?

By: Snowman

Snowman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think you need a carriage after the first two words in your code.

Thanks for the great article, I’m gonna test it now