[nylug-talk] URL redirect

[Zach Stern]

You could just use the *paid* service from dyndns or no-ip, which will allow
you to use dynamic DNS with whatever domain name you choose. That's what I'd
do.

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