Domain forwards or domain aliases

[skypanther]

I have a client hosted here who had me sign up a whole bunch of new domain names. He wants visitors to those domains to end up at his current site. (Shorter and more marketable domain names.)

The main domain is http://lioffshorewindenergy.org/ and one of the forwards is http://windworks4li.org/

I set up the domains at GoDaddy as masked forwards but something's amiss--the DHTML menus on my clients site don't work if you visit the masked domain. They work fine if you visit the actual domain.

The client would prefer to have visitors to windworks4li.org to see only windworks4li.org in the address bar. Would domain aliases set up through HSphere do that for me?

(I guess that's secondary to the site actually working if you visit via one of the forwarded domains. So I might just have to set these up to forward normally.)

Thanks,
Tim

 

[skypanther]

I must ask tough questions or something, I almost never get replies. Anyway, I set up domain aliases in HSphere and all is working correctly.

Tim

 

[tetranz]

I went to both URLs and it looks like you've solved it, presumably with aliases.

Masked forwarding is really an ugly kludge by putting the site inside a frame which probably explains why the menus didn't work. I think it was used early in the dot com age as a way of hiding the fact that a site was at a free host like Geocities.

Normal forwarding is a good way of forcing visitors to a single URL or if a site has moved which is what it was really designed for.

Aliases are really the best way to have two URLs for the same site.

 

[skypanther]

Thanks for the reply and explanation. And here I thought masked forwarding was some DNS trick since GoDaddy was offering it right alongside the regular forwarding.

Best wishes,
Tim

 

[Stephen]

Aliases were the way to go, I dind't see the "new post" color by your post so I did not open it. Quite sorry