If I buy a wwwdomain how do I ?

mally · Jul 21, 2006

Hello

I'm looking to buy a wwwdomainname

anychances of explaining how I can making sure any web addresses such as wwwdomainname/offer/index.htm are forwarded to another url instead of seeing a blank page

Cheers

FC Domains · Jul 21, 2006

Assuming that the server is running Apache, you can either set the second name as an alias, or use ReWrite to take the incoming URL and generate a replacement.

For example any of the domains I have for sale will be redirected to a unique page. eg:

www.nosuch.co.uk
will go to
www.fcdomains.co.uk/www_nosuch.htm

This means that one site will answer to hundreds of domain names.

mally · Jul 21, 2006

Thanks colin

What if nosuch already hasa link on an old website such as nosuch.co.uk/offers/

How do I get every thing to forward

FC Domains · Jul 21, 2006

The DNSs will decide what server the domain name lands on, after that any address, including sud-directories and filenames, can be modified by the re-write rules and re-directed to any page. The page can even be on another server.

However the language the rules are written in is obscure (Regular Expressions). You will most likely need a geek. You might also need root access to the server, depending on how AllowOverride is configured.

There are some examples here:

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

scooter · Jul 21, 2006

If you don't have access to a geek and you still have the old pages on your server, the quick solution is to use a java redirect script.

Put the following code in your old pages, overwriting everything that is there at present.

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3; url=http://www.yoursite.com">

<body text="#000000" link="#800000" vlink="#FF8080" alink="#C0C0C0">
<p align="center">
<center>
You are being redirected to the new site<br>
<p><br>
If your browser does not support java, please click <a href="http://www.yoursite.com">here</a>.
</center></body></html>

Make sure you change both http://www.yoursite.com to your own landing page.