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Question

Web forwarding

Nov 14, 2013 1:43AM PST

I am intending to transfer my client's domain name to another provider and then set up Web Forwarding from that domain to my own Webspace on another domain. I would much appreciate the answers to 3 questions:

1. Does such forwarding normally work in the case of a sub-folder, e.g. www.clientsite.com would redirect to www.myownsite.co.uk/clientsite (and then would find the index.htm page in the "clientsite" sub-folder)?

2. Or would it only work with a sub-domain set-up, e.g. www.clientsite.com would redirect to http://clientsite.myownsite.co.uk? (I have functionality problems with this set-up and therefore prefer the sub-folder route.)

3. Does Masked Web Forwarding hide, in the Browser address bar, the true URLs of all pages in the sub-folder (or sub-domain) or only the index.htm page?

Thanks in advance
John

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Just to clarify. Redirection is forwarding.
Nov 14, 2013 1:55AM PST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

As I had set up a redirect in the past I had to double check if forwarding was something new (it wasn't.)

So if you intend to redirect I bet you would not want to do the work required to redirect each unique page URL. If you are like most you redirect the top page and that's it. No web author I know gets enough pay or time to redirect each page.
Bob
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Thanks
Nov 14, 2013 2:21AM PST

Thanks, that's what I suspected.

Can anyone advise as regards questions 1 and 2?

John

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Item 2?
Nov 14, 2013 2:38AM PST

Seems to answer itself. That is, the redirect html code would be at the first URL and send you on to the next.

Item 3 is not good at all. That is, the URL shown in the top of the browser must reflect where the page came from or else the browser would be deemed broken. There are ways with embedded another site inside a frame but I'm sure even the second year student could see the mixed domain content and see where the content is coming from. Firefox's extensions make that rather easy to list today.

And item 3 sounds like you are trying to hide something. When it comes to the web, if you try to obfuscate items you usually get slammed on reviews by users at Web Of Trust or other. I would not suggest you try that.
Bob

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Thanks again
Nov 14, 2013 6:40AM PST

OK, good points which I hadn't considered.
John

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Typo in my reply.
Nov 14, 2013 6:44AM PST