Using your own sub domain
To set the shop to your own sub domain:
- Set up a sub domain such as "shop" on your domain hosting provider and point the C-Name Record to shop.flickrocket.com.
- Wait until the changes propagate to the DNS servers. Note that it can take up to 72 hours for these changes to propagate to the DNS servers used by FlickRocket.
- Ping the new sub domain and proceed to the next step when you get a successful reply back from flickrocket.com.*
- Login to the FlickRocket admin
- Choose Frontend>Domains/Themes and click General Settings.
- In the Domain section, click the Change Domain button.
- Choose Custom domain and enter your sub domain.
- Click the Yes, I agree and want to change
* To Ping a sub domain name on Windows
- Select Run from the Start menu.
- Type cmd and press Enter.
- At the prompt, type ping subdomainname.com (for example, ping alliesaudiobooks.com) and press Enter.
To Ping a sub domain name on Mac
- Hold the Command key and press the Space Bar.
- Type the word Terminal in the search field and press the Enter key.
- At the prompt, type ping subdomainname.com (for example, ping alliesaudiobooks.com) and press Enter.