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Old 12-12-2008, 11:19 AM
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Hey all,

Quick question, I've just done a site for a University club. They are hosting it on their servers (with a huge long url into the bargain!)

I bought a .com fro the club from Digiweb and they are re-directing to the server in question...

However, once the clean url is entered, the address bar then automatically reads out the long domain...

Is there any way to KEEP the clean .com in the address bar while people peruse the site?!

Thanks in advance!
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Old 12-12-2008, 11:40 AM
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Short answer - probably

Longer answer - talk to your hosting provider
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OK- I'll talk to them then.

I thought there might be a code remedy within the site itself - not so much the hosting provider. Thanks anyway though...
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Well you're using a redirect from outside the hosting setup, so I can't see how you'd manage that
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Well you're using a redirect from outside the hosting setup, so I can't see how you'd manage that
Ok - thanks
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OK- I'll talk to them then.

I thought there might be a code remedy within the site itself - not so much the hosting provider. Thanks anyway though...
To keep the name in the address bar the same, you'll probably need Digiweb to do frame based forwarding for you. Any other methods require you to have your own hosting account outside of the University.

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I thought there might be a code remedy within the site itself - not so much the hosting provider.
Of course you could always ask the University admins if they're willing to setup a virtual host for the domain and then simply point the domain at the ip of their server.
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Thanks Niall!

Appreciate the advice. I've got the university and Digiweb talking now. It worked fine but it's down again. I think it's on the University end.
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Is there any way to KEEP the clean .com in the address bar while people peruse the site?!
What you are talking about is a Reverse Proxy. Basically the first site (Digiweb) would have some code in the httpd.conf that would enable the queries to be sent transparently to the site. The user would only see the clean .com in the address bar. Sometimes this is relatively easy to set up but on shared hosting, it can be problematic and a bit of a nightmare.

Running a Reverse Proxy with Apache:

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