URL forwarding?

[Swakoo]

What is it?

my biggest concern now is I have a site at myuserid.webhost.com
and I want to register a www.myuserid.com

when people access "www.myuserid.com" and move around my site via the links.. will the url be change back to my hosted address? or remain at domain name? is that what url forwarding is all about?

[Coight]

No, it will remain subdomain.host.com


URL Forwarding:

Is simply you have the domain www.mydomain.com but have space at geocities.com/mydomain/. You point your domain to the geocities account. When the user types your domain name in they are forwarded to your geocities account.

Robert

[Swakoo]

huh? i thought i am paying for the domain name.. and so it should remain at www.mydomain.com?

how to ensure that?

[Coight]

If you have domain hosting and not userid.webhost.com then you can have http://www.myuserid.com/whaterver/ etc.

Robert

[Swakoo]

i have a userid.webhost.com now
i want to sign for a www.userid.com url for people to accesss directly...

[Chicken]

Couple of things. One, you are getting a domain and forwarding it somewhere else, to some other space, to another URL. When you do this, some things don't always work the way you'd like them to work.

One thing that you can often find is frame forwarding. Your URL www.userid.com is kept in the browser, and never changes, just as *any* frame never changes.

You should reword your post/questions as:

Does anyone know a place that offers forwarding for domains that will allow path fowarding as well?

www.mydomain.com/subfolder >>> blah.otherdomain.com/subfolder

[Swakoo]

oh.. won't most domain registrant provide such thing?

but most seem to charge url forwarding separately... now really what is URL forwarding for then?

which is the "default" one? path forwarding?
or i might not even have both? that is to say.. just a domain name.. and once a link within the site is click it shows the hosted address?

sorry if i am confusing.. cos I am!

[trenzterra]

now I know why mydomain.com is so popular...

probably a quarter of their hits were clicked wrongly by users... because everybody goes like this:

www.mydomain.com this and that.

How to set up mydomain.com?

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Swakoo
oh.. won't most domain registrant provide such thing?

but most seem to charge url forwarding separately... now really what is URL forwarding for then?

which is the "default" one? path forwarding?
or i might not even have both? that is to say.. just a domain name.. and once a link within the site is click it shows the hosted address?

sorry if i am confusing.. cos I am!

Swakoo, it used to be that registrars just registered the domain. You'd then modify the nameservers, and the host would set everything up (DNS and the site on the server). Some registrars offer paid and free extras.

Again, in general, forwarding is just that. Forward your domain name to where ever your site is (URL changes). Some offer fram-forwarding which just sets up a frame and your domain name stays in the browser.

That is about what you'll find though some forwarding services *may* offer an advanced form of this called path-forwarding, where URL stays the same and you see the paths, but I'd say it is uncommon. Most often you'll just get forwarding or frame forwarding.

[Swakoo]

hmmm i am getting a bit confuse

ok.. dollardomainname.com is charging USD$15 for one year registration to domian name...

I am hoping to get a www.darentay.com

my hosted site is at, for example, daren.host.com

my aim to have a domain name is so that the url will always reflect www.darentay.com, be it www.darentay.com/index.html or a sub-directory at www.darentay.com/downloads etc..

i don't want it to reflect daren.host.com at anytime... with the USD$15 is it possible? will someone please verify for me cos I am not very sure about the services.. even emailed them but can't seem to get my quesitons across as I am not even sure how to ask....

[Chicken]

You want path forwarding, and as I said, I'm not sure who offers it. More likely you will find that your domain http://www.darentay.com/ stays in the browser as is. Never changes, as with any framed site. Search engines don't like this, your visitors often don't either as they can never copy the URL and send it to someone (for example).

I'm not sure which free hosts will host domains, but worth looking into if that is what you'd like.

[Swakoo]

oh no no.. i would like it to be as www.darentay.com\index.html.. or www.darentay.com\directory

but don't show the actual hosted site address... its ok for it to show the files/directory involve here

[Chicken]

Yeah, I know, but I don't know of a place that offers that. I could swaer some redirection places do, even on this forum, so I'm surprised you haven't gotten off-board emails, but maybe it isn't possible.