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justtupeu
Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/6/9 21:11

  • justtupeu

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I've got a problem. Hope you can help. I've got the website http://www.steaua.trei.ro, where a intro is located,pointing to http://www.justtupeu.lx.ro.ro.
After a few months since i've opened the website, i've decided to buy a domain, for example steauafc.net. The domain will be with full masking, and my question is if I must change the My Page url to http://www.steauafc.net for my address bar to always show the steauafc.net domain instead of the lx.ro one .
If i must change it, could you please tell me where I can make some adjustments ?
Hope i've made my self understood, as my english isn't very good
Regards.
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pod
Re: Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/6/9 22:23

  • pod

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  • Since: 2003/4/19


Most Domain services have a feature where you can forward the new domain to the old one, but keep it within an invisible frame so that regardless of what someone clicks within your site, the URL bar will always read yoursite.net. This isnt the optimal solution, however, just the easiest one.

If you are using the same server space with the new domain as the old, you should be able to open yourxoopssite/mainfile.php and change the URL of your site on line 39. Make a copy of this file before you overwrite it in case anything goes wrong.

Hope this helps :)
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Lance_
Re: Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/6/10 1:19

  • Lance_

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It would be much easier to respond with knowing some details of your hosting.

If you are allowed parked domains then it is a sinch since the parked domain points to your root. Therefore like pod said above modify the mainfile.php for the new doamin and you are all set.

If you can do addon domains then this will point to a folder under the root. In this case, move the files to the folder and same procedure for mainfile.php.

Otherwise, the masking thing is doable, just not very elegeant in the long term. You are better off finding a hosting outfit that fullfill your needs instead of looking for workarounds.

Cheers.
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justtupeu
Re: Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/6/10 6:43

  • justtupeu

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The free hosting allows parking of your domains, so from what you've said, it will be much easier. About the mainfile.php, i must change only the Virtual Path, and leave the Physical Path unmodified, right ?
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Lance_
Re: Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/6/10 14:45

  • Lance_

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That would be correct.

Change the http://... to your new domain
the /home/... should stay the same.

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radiobuzzer
Re: Help about buying a domain. Need i change my page url ?

  • 2005/8/25 13:25

  • radiobuzzer

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  • Since: 2004/11/19


I had the same problem. I changed the mainfile.php. The site links work perfectly now, BUT: the administrator cannot login and new users cannot register.

It seems that there is some "referrer detect" procedure to detect if somebody is trying to abuse the register and the admin login facility. (I bypassed the one temporarily). But shouldn't there be another place to change how the referrer checks the attempts?

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