Domain Mapping

What is domain mapping?

See Setting Up Domain Mapping.

What are the requirements for setting up domain mapping?

See Domain Mapping Requirements.

Will you handle email to my domain?

We don't support handling email addresses or aliases for TypePad sites. Most services which register your domain name will let you forward email from your domain's email address to your current email address.

Can I map a sub-domain such as blog.example.com?

Yes. If you have a domain www.example.com, you can set up a sub-domain with your registrar (such as blog.example.com) and map that to your TypePad site, weblog or photo album.

This is also useful if you would like to host part of your domain at TypePad and part at another location.

Enter the sub-domain that you set up with your domain at your registrar (blog.example.com) for the first step in the TypePad mapping setup and this will set up your site, weblog, or album with the sub-domain of your registered domain.

What do I configure at my registrar for the domain mapping?

See Setting Up Domain Mapping.

What do I do after making the change at my registrar?

See Setting Up Domain Mapping.

Why doesn't the style show on my pages after setting up my domain?

This happens when the stylesheet is not found because your domain isn't ready to be set as active. Go to the mapping setup page in your TypePad Control Panel > Site Access > Domain Mapping and uncheck the box to set the domain as disabled. Press the Set button to apply the setting.

Then, go to the Design tab for your weblog and click the Publish button to publish your pages again. That will put your style back on your pages until the domain is ready.

When you can type in http://www.example.com and see your TypePad site you would set the mapping as active in TypePad.

What does setting a domain as “active” do?

See Setting Up Domain Mapping.

How do I set up my domain to work without typing the www?

The mapping sets up your http://www.example.com address. To enable the http://example.com address (without the www) to work with your site, you would use a redirect from http://example.com to http://www.example.com. How this is set exactly depends on your registrar.

Once my domain is set up, does the old URL still work?

You will be able to type in the domain name you mapped and see your TypePad site after the domain mapping is complete. The permalinks and archive links on your pages will use the domain name, and the .typepad.com address will not show on the templates.

The .typepad.com address still works if you type it into the browser. If you had incoming links using the .typepad.com address they will not be broken.

How do I map my About Page to use my domain?

The About Page is part of your main site. It is separate and unique and doesn’t “belong” to any of your specific weblogs.

On the final step in the TypePad mapping setup, choose “My main site” (example.typepad.com) when selecting where to map the domain. This will map all of your pages, including your About Page, to use your domain.

Setting up my domain was easy! Can I do it again?

Yes. If you have multiple weblogs (and/or photo albums) and domain names that you would like to map, each of your weblogs and photo albums can have a different domain name (such as www.example.com).

For the configuration at your registrar, the CNAME for all the domains mapped on your account would be your main TypePad address (example.typepad.com). Then on the final step in the TypePad mapping setup you will have the opportunity to select the specific weblog or photo album to map to for that domain name.