Domain issues

[Comrad3]

Alright, so I own a domain and operate a few websites. This is the first time I've come across this problem.

I have a friend who is running a podcasting show, and wants to host everything on my servers. I'm okay with this, but I'm having a problem; he has his own domain and wants it to direct to a website on my server, but he doesn't want my domain to show up in the URL bar at any time.

I've been told to make .htaccess edits, and to use virtual hosts with Apache, but every time I've followed guides off of Google I've gotten 404 errors.

Any help appreciated.

[EricJ]

Well there are a few different ways to do this, I'll highlight my favorite few:

1. Add the domain as an addon domain. This way the cPanel takes care of everything and no one will be able to see your domain name in the address bar. This would mean that you're hosting his entire site though, I don't know if that was your goal or not. It sounded like you just wanted to just handle the podcast portion.

2. Add a subdomain of his domain as an addon domain. Again the cPanel will take care of everything and your domain will never be seen, but he will be required to setup an A record to point to your server's IP. This would be useful if he was hosting the website elsewhere, but wanted to host the podcasts on your hosting account. This way something like podcast.hisdomain.com would point to your server, which would allow users to access content from you, while still being on 'his' website.

3. Set up an iframe page. He could set up an iframe page and have the source of the iframe point to a page on your website, this way his domain still stays in the address bar but you can load content off of your hosting. Useful if he can't create an A record, and is hosting the site elsewhere.

If you want more information on any of these, feel free to ask. With these methods, you should be able to get out of .htaccess edits.

Lastly, Welcome to the forums. :)