Does anyone know how to redirect traffic from a main website to a subdomain website transparently? For example, www.johndoe.com to johndoe.domain.com.
The URL should still read johndoe.com.
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I dont know what you mean by transparently...perhaps 'masking'? Masking is generally frowned upon.
You can use htaccess and/or php to do redirects. I suspect you will want to use htaccess, but I'm no expert at writing the code. -
Maybe something like this?
PHP:<frameset rows="100%,*" border='0' frameborder='0'>
<frame name="_main" src="http://johndoe.domain.com/" noresize frameborder='0'>
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Let's try a different approach.
I want to build a new web site for my homepage. I'm putting it in a subdirectory off the root directory of the main website (ex. johndoe.com/newsite/). Upon completion, how do I set newsite to be the new main page without disturbing the old. I don't want to move the content of the directory because that might break some of the scripts.
I've looked into .htaccess and DNS CNAMES but don't know which is more appropriate. -
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If your domain is registered, just change the settings that are registered. Or if your using a DNS service, change in there. I know DynDNS supports this.
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If you're using Linux and cPanel, it can be easily done by creating a subdomain, say newsite.johndoe.com that is pointed to johndoe.com/newsite. cPanel will then automatically create the CNAME entry in the server's DNS. If your account supports multiple domains, the same above is applied but for a new domain name, newdomain.com pointed to johndoe.com/newsite. You must be using your web host's DNS servers for this to be done.
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