URL masking. Help dudes

thedude_frombaywatch

Hey, so I have a site up 'http://todd_waibel.win.aplus.net/' only the URL I intend on giving people is 'www.10s.biz' and that URL 10s.biz does work well. Its basicly just redirecting traffic to the long [url]Http://todd_waibel.win.aplus.net[/url]


I had a question about how to go about changing that long name so it just shows www.10s.biz in the window.

Any help would be great

Jimmy King

In theory, the easiest way is going to be to just point the A record for www.10s.biz at the same IP as todd_waibel.win.aplus.net and have the httpd configured to recognize the www.10s.biz hostname. I don't know what kind of access you have to tell you how to do it... I'm assuming based on the url that this is a windows server, so it's somewhere in the IIS config if you have access to that, or your ISP may provide you with a web based control panel that allows you to configure that sort of thing, or you may need to contact your ISP directly and ask them to set that up.

Some registrars also provide a service called url masking which will load the other page while keeping your desired url in place. I would try to do this the right (above) way first, though, as it's almost certainly less prone to problems.

blincoln

Yeah, in IIS it's called using a host header. Ask your hosting provider if they support that.