[nylug-talk] URL redirect

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----- Original Message -----From: Paul Robbins Date: Friday, October 5, 2007 12:35 pmSubject: [nylug-talk] URL redirectTo: NYLUG Technical Discussion > 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.> > ~PaulI have used url forwarding to defeault port blocking on a home hosted
website before.  Google does have some problems indexing the page when
this happens.

For me, I wanted the Url to be completely masked because i didnt want my users seeing www.mysite.com:2222 

A nasty dirty way to get what you  want (for http) is  a meta refresh tag that redirects visitors. -Eric