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wgf
07-31-2010, 08:12 PM
How can i mask the domain name when I am using a redirect?

I hope this feature is available or I am gonna be ticked!
Basil
08-01-2010, 08:23 PM
There's like zero legitimate uses for this, but the answer is use a frame.
clearpointweb.com
04-05-2011, 11:07 AM
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand why you say there are no legitimate uses. What if someone is using a free blog site like blogger.com or wordpress.com and they don't want the url to show as http://mysite.wordpress.com but instead just want it to say http://mysite.com. This seems like a common thing someone may want to do. What am I missing? Thanks!
felgall
04-05-2011, 12:48 PM
What if someone is using a free blog site like blogger.com or wordpress.com and they don't want the url to show as http://mysite.wordpress.com but instead just want it to say http://mysite.com. This seems like a common thing someone may want to do.

That's why wordpress.com supply that as an option. You can do it there without needing frames. In fact to do it using frames you'd need other hosting to host the dimain name and the frames rather than being able to do it all at wordpress.com
Basil
04-06-2011, 12:31 AM
If you have your own website, typically you aren't hosting content on another server, at least not one that you couldn't set DNS records for.

Tricking the visitor into thinking they're at a location that they really aren't is generally not a good idea.
tkwon
04-16-2011, 06:34 PM
Apparently there's a lot of people who want this feature but for some reason Bluehost doesn't want to implement it. I'm starting to regret my decision to move from GoDaddy.
Basil
04-16-2011, 07:21 PM
Place this in an html file:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Basil was here</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<frame src="http://google.com" />
</frameset>
</html>

Modify the frame source. That's it, you're done.

This is the same thing that any "domain masking" feature anywhere will generate. Frames are the only way to do this without writing a proxy, which would just be stupid.