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How To Create a Subdomain to Your Facebook URL Page

28 Jun
2009
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You Wanted

A Vanity Facebook URL to your Page?

Easy to remember Facebok page link?  You’re not alone.

People on Twitter are wanting to create Vanity Facebook URL’s to their facebook pages found out they neeed a minimum of 25 100 fans for their page and began putting out plaintive cries for help asking people to fan their pages. 
 

The Problem

You went to http://facebook.com/username only to find out you were SOL (S**t Outta Luck). Facebook raised the minimum number of fans from 25 to 100 in order to get a vanity Facebook url.

vanity Facebook URL registration page not eligible

The Solution

Learn in this video how you can create your own http://facebook.domain.com and not have to worry!  I’m doing this example using GoDaddy’s domain manager Control Panel. 

My new subdomain is already working after 30 minutes!  http://facebook.freshworkshops.com

You Need

  • A Domain Name
  • Facebook Account
  • Facebook Page

Resources

Creating and Forwarding a Subdomain – GoDaddy Help Center — Knowledge Base

A subdomain is the part of a domain that is appended to the beginning of the domain name, like a prefix. For example, if your domain is “coolexample.com,” you can add a subdomain to the front of it to make “one.coolexample.com.” As with a regular domain, you can forward a subdomain to another URL. Subdomains can be up to 25 characters.

To Create and Forward a Subdomain

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
  3. Click the domain for which you want to create a subdomain.
  4. In the Subdomains section, click add.
  5. In the Subdomain field, enter subdomain you want to use. Do not enter the domain name in the field.
  6. In the Forward to field, enter the URL to which you want to forward your subdomain (for example, http://www.coolexample.com).
  7. In the Redirect type area, select one of the following:
    301 Moved Permanently
    Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “301 Moved Permanently” HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has permanently moved.
    302 Moved Temporarily
    Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “302 Found” HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has temporarily moved.
  8. Click OK.
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  • Just wanted to say your article was very helpful. With Google apps and enom, it's pretty simple. Instead of a CNAME record, just create a redirect entry under DNS settings.
  • Thanks Adria, got the subdomain made finaly. Doesnt work yet, but i had success with another domain that is hosted with the same company. Here are the steps i had to do:

    Create subdomain at the hosting level.

    Create a .htaccess file

    Place this in the .htacess file...

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


    Then it worked! BTW- how is your new iPhone:)
  • Hey Adria,
    Did it just like you said, but for whatever reason, it still doesn't work for me. How long did you have to wait before it went live? I going about 3 days now.
  • If your DNS is at GoDaddy, it should take just a few hours. Mine was forwarding in less than 30 minutes.

    When you go to http://facebook.yourdomain.com, what happens?

    What did you enter in as the forwarding address?
  • Hey Adria,
    Says page not found. I put in "facebook" as the subdomain forwarding to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minnetonka-MN/TMA...

    Christian
  • @Christian,

    It looks like you haven't set it up propertly.

    When I try this link to your Facebook page, it loads.

    When I look up your subdomain http://facebook.tmaemarketing.com at OpenDNS Cache Check it says that subdomain isn't valid. Make sure you follow the directions and add the facebook address as a forwarding address in the lower left hand corner of your domain record.
  • i created a blog thru blogspot.com. i purchased my domain name thru google apps directly from blogger.com. My DNS is thru Enom. I having a hard time find out how to create a subdomain thru enom or google apps. can you help?
  • I think in the case of domain registration at Google Apps, they have ENOM manage the domain. I found this page on DNS at ENOM http://www.enom.com/help/dnsdemo.asp.

    You would create a subdomain by creating a "CNAME" record but I don't know if ENOM allows you to forward subdomains which is what makes things very easy using GoDaddy for domain name management. ENOM does say they have "URL Forwarding" so you should contact them to get instructions how to do that.

    You can transfer your domain name to GoDaddy for easy DNS and domain management.
  • baldguybill
    Hey Adria!

    When I click on your subdomain link (and when I go there directly), I get a 404 from Facebook. It looks like you need the number at the end of the URL, but not the ?ref=xx part.

    (Unless I missed something)

    bill
  • doh! Nice catch there on noticing the subdomain was not working when I removed the numbers at the end.

    I corrected it to point the http://facebook.freshworkshops.com subdomain to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Freshworkshops/92... instead.
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