[nylug-talk] URL redirect

[Paul Robbins]

I know isn't quite a Linux question (though the webserver is running on
Linux), but I thought maybe someone would be able to help me out.

My firewall at home also has a small webserver running on it. I mainly just
use it to keep family updated about stuff going on with me.  I purchased a
website from GoDaddy, let's call it www.example.com.  I have
www.example.comforwarding to my webserver at home.  It is RoadRunner,
so it is a dynamic IP
address. The flavor of Linux I am running (ClarkConnect) gives me a hostname
(example.pointclark.net).  So I just redirect www.example.com to resolve to
example.pointclark.net.

The problem is that I either have to change the URL that displays to
example.pointclark.net or mask the URL. If I mask it, it displays
www.example.com no matter where the user navigates (subpages on the site).
Also, I am not sure that google will crawl the www.example.com site if all
it does it redirect to a different URL.  Is there a way to set up
www.example.com as my box at home and give me all of the usefulness that
comes with it?  Do I have to get a static IP address to accomplish this?

Thanks for the help.

~Paul