I have an application that lets users get a *.onemobi.net account (ex. bob.onemobi.net). Now what I would like to do is give the user the option of being able to use their own subdomain to point to their page (ex. bob.hisdomain.com => bob.onemobi.net). I have setup the server and bob.onemobi.net works as expected. I have added a CNAME entry for bob.hisdomain.com => g.onemobi.net (A record on my DNS server) but when I visit bob.hisdomain.com I automatically get redirected to http://www.onemobi.net. The default behaviour when a site does not exist is to show a page saying “Site does not exist” without any redirections.
I can’t seem to be able to figure out what is causing this. I have tried looking around to see what could possibly be causing this but I’m lost as to what to search for. I’m hoping I can get some guidance from this community.
The redirection to
bob.onemobi.netis lost in the DNS process. The server at the IP addressbob.onemobi.netpoints to has to know what to do withbob.hisdomain.com(namely treat it the same asbob.onemobi.net) or the forwarding won’t work.