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Hiding web address

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  • 02-11-2004 10:23pm
    #1
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me how to set it up so that the actual address you are looking at is hidden and in the address bar it just shows you the domain name?

    thanks


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Frames?
    or rather one big frame!


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    JustHalf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭JustHalf


    Why would you do that? That introduces pretty serious usability problems. On these other pages, users can't just snag the page address from the address bar. They will probably not be able to bookmark the page either.


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    buddy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭buddy


    Doesn't he mean that if he redirected a domain to a path such as homepage.eircom.net/~username that he wants the url to be www.domainname.com

    I have done it but with proper hosting - if you are using a host talk to them about it.


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    #5
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    That's exactly what I mean Buddy.

    Am talking to host about sorting it out now, thanks.


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    tomED
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭tomED


    Currently doing it with www.francieconway.com - Just one big frame!

    EDIT
    Actually no I'm not :o

    try www.delphiescape.com :)


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    steve-hosting36
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    Or you can use apache rewrites to have the server 'hide' the real address.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    me too - www.clarkecontracts.info - domain forwards to www.kbannon.com/clarke_contracts but using ASP I have it ckecking a querystring to find the correct page, i.e. basically every link opens the frameset again but the server side code in the framed page (default.asp) finds out the querystring and loads an appropriate include file.
    T'was a cheap solution to a cheap project!


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    #9
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    KBannon, can you tell me in English how you did that? :p

    Sorry, my web skillz are limited to frontpage and ftp.


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    buddy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭buddy


    magpie wrote:
    KBannon, can you tell me in English how you did that? :p

    Sorry, my web skillz are limited to frontpage and ftp.

    What did your host say?


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    #11
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    What did your host say?

    "Pay to host this domain seperately you cheapskate"


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I used server side code to do it.
    I guess, if you are not sure then cough up the few quid for hosting!


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