Final Transfer Steps

[salguod]

OK, I've managed to get myself confused. Hopefully I can explain this so it make sense. This is sort of an extension of my pre-sales question here.

 

I'm in the process of transferring my site to TCH. I will have 2 domain names, because folks frequently mis-spell my domain. I want that misspelling to still get folks to my site, particularly for email, so I registered it with TCH when I signed up. So:

 

I've got my original address with another host (for now) and registrar:

www.salgUOd.net

 

Now I've got my new address hosted and registered with TCH:

www.salgOUd.net

 

I've been using that new (misspelled) address to install Moveable Type and get it going. I'm ready to switch my main domain, www.salgUOd.net, to point it to TCH. I want to do this so I don't mess up my email or loose mail in the process.

 

- In the end I want my main domain at TCH to be salgUOd.net, not salgOUd.net like it is now.

- Ideally, any email addressed to someone@salgOUd.net would automatically get forwarded to someone@salgUOd.net

- Ideally, any web traffic to www.salgOUd/net/some/web/page would automatically get sent to www.salgUOd/net/some/web/page

 

What steps should I take to do so? My parents also have email addresses through my domain, and they live in another city and are not PC savvy at all. I want to make the switch for their email as painless as possible.

 

Please be specific as this is very confusing to me. I am mechanically inclined and will tackle any car problem, but this stuff makes my head spin a bit.

 

Thanks to TCH folks for helping me a bunch already.

[abinidi]

What point are you at? What are you confused about? Your plan sounds good to me...

[TCH-Carl]

If you want both the domains to have the same webcontents, a request to park the correct domain on top of your existing one here (misspelled) would be more than enough.

 

If you want to switch the correct domain to be the primary, then ask the support desk to change the domain name and then park the misspelled one on top.

[salguod]

What point are you at? What are you confused about? Your plan sounds good to me...

 

Heh. That sounded like a plan, eh?

 

Here's what I've done:

1. Registerd with TCH w/ the mispelled domain
   
2. Installed MT in my web space.
   

I still have to import the MySQL dateabase and ???

 

Somehow I've got to make it so that when folks type in www.salgUOd.net they get to TCH insted of the other place. I guess tha means changing my DNS a tmy old host, that much I think I know. Now if you go to salgUOd.net you get my old web space, if you type in salgOUd.net you get to TCH.

 

Somehow I've got to make it so that an email sent to someone@salguod.net goes throught the TCH servers instead of the old ones. How?

 

Then I've got to change my and others email clients so that the mail comes through. When? Is the timeing important? Will mail get lost if one thing happens before another?

 

I want to just be able use salGUOd.net when this is all done. I mean, I now go to ftp.salgUOd.net to get to my still active old host and ftp.salgOUd.net to get to TCH. I just want to be able to ignore the mis-spelled domain and kinda have it there in the background helping out the bad typists and bad spellers out there.

 

I hope that makes more sense.

[TCH-Bruce]

The simpleist way to not lose mail is to forward all mail on the old domain to your ISP account until the propagation finishes (up to 72 hours maybe longer for email).

 

Then remove the forwards once the move has been completed.

 

Else you will need two accounts set up in your email program accessing both email servers by IP number until the propagation has completed.

[salguod]

The simpleist way to not lose mail is to forward all mail on the old domain to your ISP account until the propagation finishes (up to 72 hours maybe longer for email).

 

Then remove the forwards once the move has been completed.

 

Else you will need two accounts set up in your email program accessing both email servers by IP number until the propagation has completed.

 

I do remember you telling me this before. (I feel a bit, uh, stupid with all of this.) I didn't quite understand what you meant before, but I got it now.

 

What if you don't have another email acount? For example, my parents have email acounts with my domain. They don't have other email acounts and they live in another city. Their ISP of course would give them one, but they are not tech savvy at all, walking them through it over the phoine is challenging. I want to make it as painless as possible, for them in particular.

 

Also, does changing the DNS move the email to the TCH server as well? I asked the IT guy here at work about this and he said no, that's the MX something. He said changing the DNS only effects web traffic, not email. If so, how do I change the MX? Is that on my other host?

 

Thanks for your patience with my ignorance and likely asking the same question repeatedly.

[salguod]

One more thing. If I forward to another address with my old host, then I would go ahead and change the settings in my email client to look to the TCH servers, right? I would then know it's complete when mail started coming in, do I understand that correctly?

[TCH-Bruce]

Yes, changing the DNS will change the MX record if it is attached to the domain and most likely is.

 

For your folks, change their current account to use the IP number of the email server they currently attach to. Set up a new email account in their email client to access the new IP (TCH) one until the DNS propagates.

[TCH-Bruce]

And yes to your other question about the forward.

[salguod]

Ahhh - the fog is begining to clear. Thanks a bunch.

[TCH-Bruce]

No problem, let us know how it goes.