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Lisa_Heay2
Lisa_Heay2
Level 3
December 22, 2017
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Same CNAME?

  • December 22, 2017
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We're moving a client from Pardot to Marketo, and they'd like to know if they can use the same CNAME they've been using for their Pardot landing pages for Marketo LPs - "go.companyname.com".  There will be about a two month overlap where they will have both Marketo active (for set up) and Pardot running until our hard cutover from one system to the other.  I think the answer is no, but wanted to confirm that before I mis-speak with the client.  Thank you! 

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
December 22, 2017

It is not possible to have the same CNAME point to two different servers.

The only way it's possible to serve pages from 2 different origins via the same hostname is if you point the CNAME to a CDN (or, generally speaking, a reverse proxy) and enforce a naming convention so a URL is explicitly tied to one server or the other, e.g. Marketo pages always start with mk_.

Lisa_Heay2
Lisa_Heay2Author
Level 3
December 27, 2017

OK - that makes sense, thanks!  What would then be the best way to redirect traffic from their old Pardot CNAME URLs to the new Marketo CNAME LPs?

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
December 27, 2017

I don't know the "best" way (being blissfully Pardot-unaware) but if they don't have a global redirect-this-page-to-a-page-with-the-same-name-and-query-params-under-this-other-hostname setting, you can do it by injecting a JavaScript snippet into the <head> of your page/template.

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