How do parked domains work?

[Van Hellseek]

If I use a parked domain to point to my website can i have it so that it doesnt change name if a visitor goes to another folder?

Like www.mydomain.com points to the root directory, but visiting www.mydomain.com/forums will become www.myhostpackage.myhost.com/forums

Any way of stopping this so it will just be www.mydomain.com/forums? (without using addon domains, as I have none of my five left)

 

[SiriusB]

Look up mod_rewrite for apache [assuming that is what your server is running on].

 

[Van Hellseek]

Sounds complicated... looks like it would be a lot simpler to set up an (unnecassary) sub-domain, which would also solve the problem as far as I can see.

 

[shine]

Its a lot simpler than you think:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domainname\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com/$1 [L]

That should do the trick.

 

[Van Hellseek]

So I change "domainname" and then add that to the root htaccess file?

 

[shine]

So I change "domainname" and then add that to the root htaccess file?

Yep - that's it.

 

[Ol!ver]

Thought I'd pull this back instead of starting a new thread.

I've got two domains, the-iblog.com and the-iblog.co.uk. I have the .com forwarded to .co.uk, but I don't want the address bar to reflect this. I want it to still say.com if that's the site the came in on. How would I do this?

Thanks

 

[shine]

Use the same example as above:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domainname\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com/$1 [L]

 

[Ol!ver]

I'm all sorted now thanks. Simply parked the domain and it just worked.