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Managing the Domain Forwarding Service
The Domain Forwarding Management consists of
the following:
Setting the Destination URL for your domain
name
This can be achieved
by following the steps mentioned below:
- Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
Click here to
read how >>
- Click the Manage FREE Domain Forward button. This will
bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
IMPORTANT
- You can also use the widget on the Control Panel homepage to bring up the Domain
Forwarding Management interface:
- Under the Manage Free Services section, provide
the domain name.
- Select Domain Forwarding Service from the drop-down menu.
- Click >>.
- For Resellers: The Manage FREE Domain Forward button/Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed
only if the Service belongs to a Customer directly under you.
- Enter the Destination URL in the text box provided. This may be of the form domain.com,
www.domain.com, www.domain.com/index/index.html, subdomain.domain.com, etc.
You may also choose http or https protocol from the dropdown menu.
- Click the Save button.
Additional Options
URL Masking If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to
your destination website; however the URL in their browser address bar will
remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will
ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination
domain name.
For example, your website is hosted at
http://destination-domain-name.com
and you choose to forward http://your-domain-name to this website. If you enable
URL Masking, your visitors will never see http://destination-domain-name.com
as a URL in their browser address bar.
URL Masking will also work perfectly with Path Forwarding.
In this case, if you type in http://your-domain-name/index/index.html
in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed
will be of http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html.
Reference:
Path Forwarding >>
How does URL Masking work?
In case of URL Masking, the Domain Forwarding Server sends the
visitor a frames
page where the frame source contains the destination URL you have specified.
This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change
though the visitor sees the destination page.
Enabling / Disabling URL Masking
Follow the steps mentioned below:
- Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
Click here to
read how >>
- Click the Manage FREE Domain Forward button. This will
bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
IMPORTANT
- You can also use the widget on the Control Panel homepage to bring up the Domain
Forwarding Management interface:
- Under the Manage Free Services section, provide
the domain name.
- Select Domain Forwarding Service from the drop-down menu.
- Click >>.
- For Resellers: The Manage FREE Domain Forward button/Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed
only if the Service belongs to a Customer directly under you.
- Select:
- the On radio button under URL
Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding section for enabling this feature, or
- the Off radio button for disabling
it.
Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a Page Title and META Tags
for the frames page which is sent to the visitor. This can be done by simply
putting in your Meta Tags and <TITLE> Tags in the Header Tags box. Whatever
you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between <HEAD> </HEAD>
Tags
on the frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the
following format only:
Meta Tags
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Your comma-separated keywords
are entered here">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Website description of the forwarded domain
name can be mentioned here">
Page Title
<TITLE>Your Webpage Title can be mentioned
here</TITLE>
IMPORTANT
Do not mention any text outside the
above mentioned Tags or it will disrupt the Domain Forwarding Service for your
domain name.
NOFRAMES Page Content
When URL Masking is enabled, the page served
to the client is a frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a
frames based
page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a
frames based
website. You may want to set an alternative <NOFRAMES> page content, which would
be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your <NOFRAMES> page HTML
content in the No Frames Page Content box. Whatever you
enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES>
Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor.
You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display <NOFRAMES> page content.
- Click the Save button.
Subdomain Forwarding
Using the Subdomain Forwarding service,
you can forward any visitor from http://subdomain.your-domain-name.com to
http://destination-domain-name.com/subdomain.
The Subdomain Forwarding Service can also be used in conjunction with URL Masking Service.
For example, if Subdomain
Forwarding is enabled, then:
- http://payments.your-domain-name.com
will get successfully forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/.
- http://credit-card.payments.your-domain-name.com
will get forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/credit-card/.
Enabling / Disabling Subdomain Forwarding
Follow the steps mentioned below:
- Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
Click here to
read how >>
- Click the Manage FREE Domain Forward button. This will
bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
IMPORTANT
- You can also use the widget on the Control Panel homepage to bring up the Domain
Forwarding Management interface:
- Under the Manage Free Services section, provide
the domain name.
- Select Domain Forwarding Service from the drop-down menu.
- Click >>.
- For Resellers: The Manage FREE Domain Forward button/Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed
only if the Service belongs to a Customer directly under you.
- Select:
- the On radio button under Sub Domain
Forwarding section for enabling this feature, or
- the Off radio button for disabling this feature.
- Click the Save button.
Path Forwarding
This feature would be highly useful when you already have a full
fledged website on a particular domain name and want to not only forward some
other domain name to it, but also all the paths associated with the website.
Thus, if you forward http://your-domain-name.com
to http://destination-domain-name.com and you
enable Path Forwarding for it, then http://your-domain-name/index/index.html would be
forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html
and so on.
Path Forwarding will also work perfectly with URL Masking.
In this case, if you type in http://your-domain-name/index/index.html
in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed
will be of http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html.
Reference:
URL Masking >>
Enabling / Disabling Path Forwarding
Follow the steps mentioned below:
- Proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface.
Click here to
read how >>
- Click the Manage FREE Domain Forward button. This will
bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.
IMPORTANT
- You can also use the widget on the Control Panel homepage to bring up the Domain
Forwarding Management interface:
- Under the Manage Free Services section, provide
the domain name.
- Select Domain Forwarding Service from the drop-down menu.
- Click >>.
- For Resellers: The Manage FREE Domain Forward button/Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed
only if the Service belongs to a Customer directly under you.
- Select:
- the On radio button under Path
Forwarding section for enabling this feature, or
- the Off radio button for disabling this feature.
- Click the Save button.
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