[nylug-talk] URL redirect

[Marco Romeny]

On 10/5/07, Paul Robbins <robbins.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If example.pointclark.net always(-y) points to your server, the idea
is that you would
make www.example.com a CNAME pointer to example.pointclark.net

Remove your redirect and poke in the dns settings at godaddy....


>
> 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
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