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Richikigoi

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adress url at forwarding

i just purchased the domain www.richardbos.com as a forward domain,

I already had it setup that ist forwarded to the requested url, but is it possible to have the adress url kept www.richardbos.com instead. So i mean now i forward and it shows the original url of where the site is hosted ( home.zonnet.nl ), but i want it to show the .com domain. Is that only possible if u have hosting togehter with your domain name or are there other possibilities?

Regards Richard
 
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We do it by creating a frameset in index.html at the site we want to forward, pointing to the target:

For example, we'd set up a site for richardbos.com, with the following as the entire index.html file:
Code: 
<HTML>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*,0" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>
<FRAME SRC="http://home.zonnet.nl/rich-san.bos/"
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
Note that if you do it this way, the URL in the browser will not show any changes at all as your user navigates within your site, and even if s/he follows a link outside your site; it will always just show "http://home.zonnet.nl/rich-san.bos/".

If you want the browser to show richardbos.com in the browser, but show the various html files, directories, etc., then you'd have to host them both at the same place.

Some domain registrars can do this kind of "frame forwarding" for you.

But it seems to me you'd be better off hosting the site at your new domain, and setting up a forward at "http://home.zonnet.nl/rich-san.bos/" to the new site.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
We do it by creating a frameset in index.html at the site we want to forward, pointing to the target:....Jeff
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But Jeff is it not so the index.html file needs content for the website to work so how could the site possibly work if all that is allowed in the index file is the frameset? Perhaps I am missing something?

Another thing I am not comprehending is why would he want to host the site and set up 'masked forwarding' thru the hosting firm or domain registrar (possibly at extra cost too) when he has his own server and should be able to do this himself without a 3rd party doing it? Again, perhaps I am missing something.

This issue has come up in many threads in the past and I do not believe has ever been resolved. Another issue is why is it DA does not simply permit us to do masked forwarding as one of the redirect options, that would solve the problems very easily?
 
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so if i understand you rwords right , my providers should place this html ? and there is nothing i personaly can do to have the adress www.richardbos.com shown at least not without hosting

regards Richard
 
Originally posted by Richikigoi so if i understand you rwords right , my providers should place this html ? and there is nothing i personaly can do to have the adress www.richardbos.com shown at least not without hosting
regards Richard
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It is beginning to look like that is so. I have been asking about masked forwarding for ages without a resolution. Needing to host a site would seem to defeat the purpose of wanting to do it in the first place, unless I am missing something?

The odd thing is how do the domain registrars do it so easy? For example, at most registrars they offer the service free and all it takes is a simple setup form which takes about 2 minutes. But again that raises the issue of why need to do that thru a 3rd party firm if you run your own server?
 
Why insist on using free hosting with advertising on it? Hosting does not have to be expensive.

Richard, if you can get your current registrar to change the DNS I will set up an account to host this index.html. The datatraffic for this even with an extreemely busy website will not be that much.

Send me a PM and I'll tell you what the DNS servers are.

regards,
Onno Vrijburg
 
I may still be unsure as to what Richard wants.

Richard, I described how to run something on your own DA system that will load whatever is on the other server into the entire browser window.

For example, I host domains.nobaloney.net, and if you enter domains.nobaloney.net into a browser you'll be forwarded to:

https://secure.ezsecureusa.com/nobaloney/domains/

as it uses our shared cert, rather than it's own.

but in fact I used the same technique I explained here; the site is a Dotster reseller site, and the real URL (which you can see if you use Mozilla or Netscape and right click, and then click on "This Frame | Show Only This Frame", is really:

https://secure.registerapi.com/order/register/check.php?siteid=9971

And to the others who wonder about DA and "Masked Forwarding", Masked Forwarding is frame forwarding and that's exactly what I'm doing and what I recommended.

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

What you explain is exactly what he wants. As far as I know there is no other way to achieve this without letting your visitor see the actual url. This actualy has nothing to do with DA or any other control panel, some providers sell URL cloaking but that is exactly the same as the frameset you defined above (except that they retrieve it from a database to make it easier to manage :)

Regards,
Onno
 
Well jeff and renames, i succeeded, thanks the help of onno from budgethosting and the cooperation of my registrar my requested doamin name appears in the adres . check www.richardbos.com and u will see that the problem has been solved.
thx everuybody for your kind replies and again Onno for making it possible

regards Richard
 
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