[nylug-talk] URL redirect

[Paul Robbins]

Would the meta redirect end up showing the example.pointclark.net URL?
Because I would prefer for them not to see that, just like you stated with
the mysite URL in your reply.

On 10/5/07, etamme at optonline.net <etamme at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> ----- 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
>
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