Specifying Your Admin URL

Custom Admin URLs

Note: Before December 2, 2006, providing your Admin URL was optional, and blogs could be created on the blogware.com domain. New Resellers are now required to use a branded URL which their users will use to access the Publisher Control Panel and as their blog's home URL. The branded URL is a unique URL for that reseller that relates to the Reseller's service branding.

Your Admin URL is where your blog customers will log-in to your instance of the Publisher Control Panel.

In order to provide a custom Admin URL, you must first purchase or own a domain. That domain can also be used for the website for your blog service. Once you have a domain, you'll need to create a third level domain (e.g. admin.SpringfieldInternetDirect.com) or a subdirectory (e.g. SpringfieldInternetDirect.com/admin) and create a CNAME that points your third level domain or subdirectory to the Blogware system.

Creating a CNAME

A CNAME (short for Canonical Name) is an alias for a hostname. For example, the owner of the domain SpringfieldInternetDirect.com domain could buy the domain SpringfieldInternet.com and create a CNAME that points SpringfieldInternet.com to SpringfieldInternetDirect.com. From then on, accessing SpringfieldInternet.com would be the same as accessing SpringfieldInternetDirect.com.

Creating a CNAME is done at the domain name registrar end. Most domain name registrar services offer a control panel that lets you define CNAMEs based on your domain name, usually under a section called "CNAMEs" or "Zone Editing". The specific details will vary from registrar to registrar, but they will all let you do the same things.

1. Create a CNAME based on your domain name

We recommend something that will be easy to remember, such as one that uses "admin", "blogadmin" or "controlpanel". For example, if your domain name is SpringfieldInternetDirect.com, we recommend that you create a second level domain or subdirectory like admin.SpringfieldInternetDirect.com or SpringfieldInternetDirect.com/blogadmin, and then create a CNAME for that second level domain or subdirectory.

2. Have the CNAME point to blogware.com

There will usually be a textbox beside the place where you enter a CNAME that specifies what the CNAME points to. Enter blogware.com into this textbox.

Specifying Your CNAME as Your Admin URL

1. From the Reseller Control Panel, click the Settings tab. The Edit Settings page opens.

2. In the Administration Settings section, enter your CNAME in the Admin URL field.

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3. When done, click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.