Comments on: How To Create a Subdomain to Your Facebook URL Page

By: David

David — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:20:51 +0000

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.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:23:14 +0000

It worked:) http://facebook.tmaemarketing.com

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:42:27 +0000

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:)

By: Adria Richards

Adria Richards — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:57:17 +0000

@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.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:53:33 +0000

Hey Adria,
Says page not found. I put in “facebook” as the subdomain forwarding to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minnetonka-MN/TMA-E-Marketing/40567994039

Christian

By: Adria Richards

Adria Richards — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:45:25 +0000

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?

By: Adria Richards

Adria Richards — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:44:04 +0000

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.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:24:53 +0000

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.

By: Data Boy

Data Boy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:38:39 +0000

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?

By: Adria Richards

Adria Richards — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:13:46 +0000

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/92361301918 instead.