jdharm
06-24-2003, 09:06 AM
I am trying to solve a problem and the only info I could find that wasn't just advertising was a letter of disgust by someone about how this embodied everything that was wrong with the Internet. I didn't understand their position, and don't see anything wrong with it. If you could clarify as well as solve my issue, I would appreciate it.
This is the situation: I purchased a cheap domain name. I have free space on my work computer. I therefore set up the domain account with the registrar to redirect to my free space.
The problem is the way they do it. I have two choices, standard or stealth. The stealth way is for the registrar to display a webpage with one frame when someone types my domain name in the address bar of the browser. The page has one frame, the contents of which are my web pages. Now the address bar shows my domain OK, but the title bar and address bar never change. The title I have coded in the html of the page never displays and the directory structure of the 'site' never changes in the address bar. Also, anyone using 'view source' will see the full address of my web space as a SRC= in the registrar's html, i.e. www.workdomain.com/~jdharm/blah/blah.html. Plus, this whole frame thing is ugly to me.
I understand what they are doing and how.
The standard redirection is to just send the browser directly to the directory on the host server with no masking or frames or anything. True redirection.
So, if my hosted space isn't on a dedicated server, it is just a directory on a single server with dozens of other people, is there any way that I can use the standard redirection to send people to the actual server/directory and display the actual page (not just the page contents stuffed in a frame), but display my domain name in the address bar?
Josh
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.jdharm.net>www.jdharm.net</a>
This is the situation: I purchased a cheap domain name. I have free space on my work computer. I therefore set up the domain account with the registrar to redirect to my free space.
The problem is the way they do it. I have two choices, standard or stealth. The stealth way is for the registrar to display a webpage with one frame when someone types my domain name in the address bar of the browser. The page has one frame, the contents of which are my web pages. Now the address bar shows my domain OK, but the title bar and address bar never change. The title I have coded in the html of the page never displays and the directory structure of the 'site' never changes in the address bar. Also, anyone using 'view source' will see the full address of my web space as a SRC= in the registrar's html, i.e. www.workdomain.com/~jdharm/blah/blah.html. Plus, this whole frame thing is ugly to me.
I understand what they are doing and how.
The standard redirection is to just send the browser directly to the directory on the host server with no masking or frames or anything. True redirection.
So, if my hosted space isn't on a dedicated server, it is just a directory on a single server with dozens of other people, is there any way that I can use the standard redirection to send people to the actual server/directory and display the actual page (not just the page contents stuffed in a frame), but display my domain name in the address bar?
Josh
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.jdharm.net>www.jdharm.net</a>