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hostingconfusion
12-06-2008, 07:43 PM
Url forwarding: How to figure out before signing up?

Out of the many domain registrats, I've seen some that forward by replacing domains, so for example website.com/news would forward to newwebsite.com/news, while others forward everything to the main page (eg newwebsite.com). From what I recall, GoDaddy does the former, while 1

greatandrew
12-08-2008, 06:19 AM
If I am not mistaking it is possible to do such forwarding in hosting Cpanel, like Cpanel 11, but I am not sure if my answer is correct!





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teachforjune-Scott
12-08-2008, 09:30 AM
All of this forwarding can be done with a .htaccess file.





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hostingconfusion
12-16-2008, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by powerMonster-Scott


All of this forwarding can be done with a .htaccess file.


Thanks Scott! I forgot to mention, that this was for hosted blogs, like blogger/blogspot, where one does not have access to the web-server.

teachforjune-Scott
12-16-2008, 09:55 AM
O I C. Thanks for the info.
You will have to do this with dns then.





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