Creating a CNAME or Alias for Your Calendar

When you first sign up for a hosted calendar, we create a host name of

http://yourdomain.mhsoftware.com

You use this host name as the URL to access your calendar.

It is also possible to create a virtual host name to access your calendar. A virtual host name lets users access your calendar with a URL like:

http://calendar.yourdomain.com/

In order to do this, you need to create a CNAME or alias DNS record.

What You Need To Do

Contact your domain's administrator and ask them to create a CNAME record. If you're the system administrator, look at your hosting site's control panel in the DNS section.

Create a CNAME or alias DNS record for

calendar

that points to:

yourdomain.mhsoftware.com.

The trailing period shown above is important. Don't omit it. Once you've configured this DNS record, test it by putting the URL:

http://calendar.yourdomain.com/

into your browser. If it doesn't work, please EMail technical support with the name of the virtual host you would like to use.

How a CNAME/Virtual Host Works

The way a CNAME or alias DNS record works is like this:

1. The browser says: Give me the address for the computer "calendar.yourdomain.com".
2. Your DNS Server responds: I don't know the address, but if you look up the name "yourdomain.mhsoftware.com", that's the address.
3. Your computer then contacts the DNS server for mhsoftware.com and says: I need the address for "yourdomain".
4. Our DNS server responds: The address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
5. Your browser then connects to that address. As part of the web page request, it sends the host name "calendar.yourdomain.com".
6. Our server routes the request to the calendar for yourdomain.