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Sep 09, 2013 20:36 |  #1

little help please
just bought a domain via WIX

www.somephotosmiami.co​m (external link)

but you access it in your iphone, goes to

m.somephotosmiami.com (external link)


even in any brower, you type it iwith the "m." works and goes to Gail Davis Photographers's site

any idea will be welcomed


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Sep 09, 2013 20:43 |  #2

the "m" means "Mobile"...




  
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Sep 09, 2013 20:51 |  #3

i knew that
so i need to buy that domain as well?

sorry if this is pretty dumb to ask.


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Sep 09, 2013 22:18 |  #4

That's pretty interesting. I've never seen that before. I thought when you bought a domain, it included all of the subdomains as well...


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Sep 09, 2013 22:29 |  #5

Sounds like you need the moderator for the entire internet!

I'd contact the people you bought the domain name from.

Good luck.


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Sep 09, 2013 22:30 |  #6

I don't have the "m" for mobile. When I go to my page, it is www.suechoiphotography​.com (external link) both for a computer & an iphone. I thought this was because they are the identical sites. I thought the "m" sites were created separately from the regular websites because a lot of the "m" sites for stores and such have different layout and usually fewer options & menu items. For example compare www.shutterfly.com (external link) vs. m.shutterfly.com to cater to smaller screen. So I think you do buy them separately.


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Sep 10, 2013 01:46 as a reply to  @ syclarac's post |  #7

you shouldn't have to buy them separately.

if done correctly, the code in the site will do a test to see what browser you're using. if you're using a mobile browser it directs you to the mobile version of the site.


but obviously something different is happening here.




  
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Sep 10, 2013 04:47 |  #8

Try checking with your hosting company. They should be able to point the mobile site to the right place. Or it may be that you just need to set up your mobile site.


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Sep 10, 2013 05:56 as a reply to  @ jwhite65's post |  #9

It is not a separate domain and as such, should not be charged like one. When you own a domain, design it and host it yourself, you can have as many subdomains as you like. one.domainname.com, two.domainname.com, three.domainname.com, etc are all subdomains of domainname.com. You create subdomains in your domain-owners configuration control area (such as cPanel).

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Building Websites for Mobile: How It Works (external link)


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Sep 10, 2013 06:27 |  #10

Picture North Carolina wrote in post #16284201 (external link)
It is not a separate domain and as such, should not be charged like one. When you own a domain, design it and host it yourself, you can have as many subdomains as you like. one.domainname.com, two.domainname.com, three.domainname.com, etc are all subdomains of domainname.com. You create subdomains in your domain-owners configuration control area (such as cPanel).

Here is more help:

Building Websites for Mobile: How It Works (external link)

That's what I've done in the past as well. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case here... or at least it isn't that way right now.

Something else I noticed was that the OPs domain defaults to a [URL]www. address. So when I enter "somephotosmiami.com" into my browser, it gets changed to www.somephotosmiami.co​m (external link) automatically. However, the m.somephotosmiami.com page is not listed with the [URL]www. prefix. I'm not sure what that really means, but something I noticed.


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Sep 10, 2013 08:51 |  #11

You have to remember that the internet is bigger than the WWW. You type an internet address into a browser without the [URL][URL]www. subdomain and it will automatically prepend the [URL][URL]www. to it. This is because by convention a domains WWW site will have the [URL][URL]www. subdomain assigned to it. Other types of service will have other common subdomains. So file transfer will normally point to an FTP server with the ftp. subdomain. Most FTP client programs perpend the default ftp. subdomain to a domain name in the same way web browsers prepend www.. In order to make a browser look directly at say m.somephotosmiami.com you would have to type the full http://m.somephotosmia​mi.com/ (external link) into the address bar. Of course if it were a secure page you would need the https instead, although most browsers will get around that for you. Also it is very simple to make any subdomain address point at the same server and location in the domains Cpanel.

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Sep 10, 2013 09:47 as a reply to  @ BigAl007's post |  #12

as some others have said, this is a problem that the people at WIX will have to resolve for you.

gail davis' site is also hosted there, they are pushing your visitors to her site. Tell them to stop!

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Sep 10, 2013 09:52 |  #13

Understood. My concern, for lack of a better term, is that both addresses are relating to the same domain name; one just being a subdomain.

The question remains, how it is that the OP purchased the domain, but when you visit the m. subdomain it goes to someone else's website? The m. subdomain should still be tied to his domain name.


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Sep 10, 2013 09:53 |  #14

hes gone wrote in post #16284639 (external link)
=he's gone;16284639]as some others have said, this is a problem that the people at WIX will have to resolve for you.

gail davis' site is also hosted there, they are pushing your visitors to her site. Tell them to stop!

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Which could bring up another problem...

If she had/has the domain prior to the OPs purchase, they may default his purchase and say that a new domain name needs to be purchased.


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Sep 10, 2013 10:06 |  #15

drvnbysound wrote in post #16284658 (external link)
Understood. My concern, for lack of a better term, is that both addresses are relating to the same domain name; one just being a subdomain.

The question remains, how it is that the OP purchased the domain, but when you visit the m. subdomain it goes to someone else's website? The m. subdomain should still be tied to his domain name.

i don't think this really has anything to do with the purchase of the domain, rather it is a problem that occurred when setting up the hosting.

Those are two separate events. Obviously one could purchase the domain through any number of other providers and point all traffic (via DNS) to another host.

there was either a human mistake made at some point, or the automatic utility at WIX has an error in it's code. As an example lets assign somephotosmiami.com a unique serial number 111112, and GailDavis a SN of 11112. If an error occurred in the set up, a human might have stepped in to fix the problem and entered the wrong serial number (leaving out an extra "1") making the subdomain point to the wrong customer's site.


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