Domain name issue

DublinWriter

I have two domains.

Domain X is hosted with a provider in the states.

Domain Y was registered with a company in the UK.

Domain Y is set up using web forwarding to point to a directory on Domain X's web site.

Although this works, the domain name for X pops up in the status bar of the web browser when a user accesses domain Y.

Ideally, what I'd like to do is to have the internic ip be the same for both domain X and Y. Is this possible/allowed?

Thanks.

seamus

Yep.

Web forwarding basically tells the browser, "The content you're looking for isn't here, but I can tell you where it is".

If you change the DNS record for that url, you can use a CNAME (alias) for the url instead of forwarding.

DublinWriter

Thanks for that Seamus.

To further complicate matters, I'd like it that if someone accesses domain X, they get the default static html page and if someone accesses domain Y they get the vbulletin instance that I've set up.

I somehow think that it's impossible.

seamus

That's definitely not impossible.

I would personally do this using virtual hosts, but there are a number of other ways of doing it, such as a using mod_rewrite, or even a simple PHP redirect in the base file of the vBulletin instance.