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Domain Cloaking by Exca on 01-05-2007 at 11:38 AM

Hello.

I want to edit the .htaccess on my server, so that when opening my site, the .be domain stays the adress.

For example my website: www.asip.be
Clicking to the forum means: www.asip.be/forum
viewing a thread makes: http://www.asip.be/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg58#new

I just want there to be www.asip.be ALL the time. Domain cloaking? Sure. But what to I have to put in the .htaccess file to do it. I've searched alot on the web, and i can't find a clear answer, and it's all about forwarding...


RE: Domain Cloaking by Ptoye on 01-05-2007 at 11:53 AM

Hey,

Not sure if this will help you but i have a piczo website and i got anoyed putting .piczo.com all the time so i used a .TK domain. Now everytime i view my website it's always for any page (even if i go to google(( as a link from the site)) www.petertoye.tk < give it a shot and you will see what i mean. To get a tk domain go to www.dot.tk

Hope this help's

Pete


RE: Domain Cloaking by Ezra on 01-05-2007 at 11:56 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ptoye
Hey,

Not sure if this will help you but i have a piczo website and i got anoyed putting .piczo.com all the time so i used a .TK domain. Now everytime i view my website it's always for any page (even if i go to google) www.petertoye.tk < give it a shot and you will see what i mean. To get a tk domain go to www.dot.tk

Hope this help's

Pete

That's because they use a Frame to put the other page in. So only the page in the frame changes and the url won't change.

RE: RE: Domain Cloaking by Ptoye on 01-05-2007 at 11:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Ezra
quote:
Originally posted by Ptoye
Hey,

Not sure if this will help you but i have a piczo website and i got anoyed putting .piczo.com all the time so i used a .TK domain. Now everytime i view my website it's always for any page (even if i go to google) www.petertoye.tk < give it a shot and you will see what i mean. To get a tk domain go to www.dot.tk

Hope this help's

Pete

That's because they use a Frame to put the other page in. So only the page in the frame changes and the url won't change.



Ok ...But is that not what he basically wants :P
RE: Domain Cloaking by Ezra on 01-05-2007 at 12:06 PM

Sure, but it's kinda a dirty trick, using mod_rewrite with apache would be nicer.

http://forums.devshed.com/apache-dev... This might help.


RE: Domain Cloaking by Exca on 01-05-2007 at 12:31 PM

Ok tnx Ezra i'll have a look at it.

anyways i don't need an www.site.tk domain as i payed for a www.site.be domain ;-)


RE: Domain Cloaking by Adeptus on 01-05-2007 at 02:26 PM

A frame is definitely what you want, but I'd urge you to reconsider.  You are probably only doing it for cosmetic reasons, but you will be essentially breaking your site doing it, by making it difficult to bookmark anything or directly link someone else to anything.  People tend to hate that.


RE: Domain Cloaking by Menthix on 01-05-2007 at 02:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Exca
payed for a www.site.be domain
Weren't those free last year? :p
RE: Domain Cloaking by foaly on 01-05-2007 at 02:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX
quote:
Originally posted by Exca
payed for a www.site.be domain
Weren't those free last year? :p
yes but only for a year...
RE: Domain Cloaking by Exca on 01-05-2007 at 03:36 PM

No it's not free :P
Those were Combell domain-forwards.
We hosted asip.be on One and payed for a hosting package, not just a forward.
Anyway my own website www.exca.be is hosted with Combell, and there you can click 'Cloaking' in the hosting configuration and the adress doesn't change anymore... but with One we have to do it in the .htaccess

No I don't want frames. I've had enough trouble with them on my own site and as there is a subdomain /forum it's not possible (as the forum is php, living on its own..


RE: Domain Cloaking by Menthix on 01-05-2007 at 03:54 PM

Like adeptus said, why do you really want it? There isn't a real advantage here. I can imagine re-writing URLs like http://www.asip.be/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg58#new to http://www.asip.be/forum/17-topic-title/58#new or something which will give an advantage at searchengines and doesn't piss of your visitors, but cloaking is a different thing.


RE: Domain Cloaking by Exca on 01-05-2007 at 04:11 PM

It doesn't have to be useful. Just esthetic..