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08-04-2009, 10:08 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Domain Masking Question
Alright this is a fairly simple question.
I have web hosting for my current site, let's say for example sake www.shoes.com. That site is all well and fine. Now I want to start a new website called www.coats.com that is an entirely separate site, however I want to host it on the same web hosting. Basically, I have coats.com setup at shoes.com/coats, but instead I want it to say coats.com. I know masking works like that, however I want the links on the page to work in a way so that, when someone goes to coats.com and clicks on an internal link, let's say 'sports jackets', instead of it (the address/browser bar) saying "coats.com" or "shoes.com/coats/sportsjackets.html" it says "coats.com/sportsjackets.html."
I am aware that masking usually just uses a frameset as trick which is why the browser permanently says "coats.com." However, I was wondering if there any possible ways to do this, perhaps with mod_rewrite?
Thanks
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08-05-2009, 12:01 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Are you using a control panel?
For example, cPanel allows you to host additional domains called "Addon Domains". When you add a domain, a folder is created in your public_html directory, in your case called /coats/. You then place all files related to coats.com into that folder.
Visitors can then go to coats.com and see your website, completely separate to shoes.com. However, if a visitor went to shoes.com/coats, they are not automatically redirected to coats.com. You may have to use a .htaccess file to redirect them....
Hope that helps.
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08-05-2009, 04:11 AM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yea that's very helpful actually. Do you know if basic GoDaddy hosting packages offer this?
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08-05-2009, 05:18 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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08-05-2009, 06:02 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks a lot for your help InstantPH, I really appreciate it. I figured out that the GoDaddy Deluxe and Unlimited hosting packages (not the basic) allow for multiple domain hosting and since we are working with a Deluxe package I was able to use the "coats.com" as I described.
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