One of our driving ideas while designing Remindo was to give users a completely “own-able” Intranet.

For this we had introduced  personalized URL + company logo branding. I think that going by the sheer number of users that have grabbed this, we are on the right track. (Don’t agree? Tell us)

We also noticed that a whole bunch of people were interacting with clients and partners (as expected) so we felt that to truly make the experience seamless for clients it would be great if users could actually link to this personalized URL from their own company website. 

This means that you can create an easy-to-remember URL like: www.yourcompany.com/intranet or http://intranet.yourcompany.com and share it with your team and clients. When they put this URL in their browser they will be automatically taken to your intranet login page on Remindo. Not only will this carry your company logo prominently, it will also be secured by VeriSign SSL – same as 94% of Fortune 500 companies.

Here’ a general guideline on how to do this, but before you do it, ensure that you have already claimed a URL for your intranet on Remindo, something like https://yourcompany.remindo.com from the Intranet Manager tab from within Remindo

From this  point onwards, its just a two step process. The catch here is that the details of this process vary for every hosting provider and server combination. Your webmaster will know the exact details so its best to rope him in if you haven’t done this kind of thing before.

Step 1: Create a subdomain on your company website

Every domain registrar has its own way to do this. (see examples below) So if you create a subdomain called ‘intranet’ and a URL like intranet.yourcompany.com or a URL like www.yourcompany.com/intranet, a folder called ‘intranet’ will be created in your directory structure.

Step 2: Use a 301 redirect to tell your server to redirect all traffic from this subdomain to your company branded intranet login page on Remindo

The details will again vary depending on what server you are using. For Apache servers, this requires a change to be made to the .htaccess file.

1. Inside the folder that you created for your subdomain in step 1, create a simple text file called .htaccess

2. Add this line to the file: “Redirect 301 http://yourcompany.remindo.com”

Here’s an excellent detailed guide on this subject and here’s a shorter guide.

And that’s all there is to it, really.

Some examples of creating subdomains on specific providers:

GoDaddy (you can do both create and forward the subdomain by this process – no meddling with .htaccess)

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
3. Use the checkbox to select the domain for which you want to create a subdomain.
4. Click Forward, and then select Forward Subdomain.
5. In the Add subdomain field, enter the subdomain – for example, intranet.yourcompany.com
6. Select  http://
7. In the Forward this subdomain to field, enter yourcompany.remindo.com
8. Click OK.

Network Solutions – Creating a subdomain

1. Log into your account manager
2. Go to Web Hosting / Manage Web Hosting
3. Press Assign New button
4. Enter subdomain and select domain and the folder it points to
5. Press Select
6. Now make changes to .htaccess as described above

One last thing, while we are adding to this list everyday, we’ll appreciate if you help us make this post as comprehensive as possible by sharing any tips or tricks with us. Or if you face any difficulties, please drop us a line at remindo[at]remindo[dot]com and we’ll help set you up.