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biosphere
04-17-2002, 09:11 PM
I've never used free hosting myself, so pardon what might be a really stupid question:blush:

If you sign up with a free host you get some sort of address: for instance something like this:

www.verybadhostingforfree.com/¨~cheapskate

Is it somehow possible to point this to a paid account?

How do you do it?


thanks,

biosphere
raq4less
04-17-2002, 09:24 PM
Originally posted by biosphere
I've never used free hosting myself, so pardon what might be a really stupid question:blush:

If you sign up with a free host you get some sort of address: for instance something like this:

www.verybadhostingforfree.com/¨~cheapskate

Is it somehow possible to point this to a paid account?

How do you do it?


thanks,

biosphere

Just put in a Quick Redirect to the Actual domain in the index.html page you upload to www.verybadhostingforfree.com/¨~cheapskate
raq4less
04-17-2002, 09:32 PM
Originally posted by biosphere

How do you do it?


Here is a sample INDEX.HTML page that I have used to keep people out of directories I didn't want them to browse.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome to CheapSkate.com</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="0;url=http://www.cheapskate.com">

<script language="Javascript">
setTimeout('location.href="http://WWW.cheapskate.com"',0);
</script>

</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=white TEXT="#FF9800" LINK="#8885FF" VLINK="#8885FF" ALINK="#00FFFF">
<p align=center><br><br>

<a href="http://www.cheapskate.com"><font size=3 color="blue">
CLICK TO VISIT Cheapskate.com</a>
<br><br>

</font>
<p>

</BODY>
</HTML>