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Link-san
Joined: 23 Jul 2004
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 Posted: 7/23/2004, 10:28 am Post subject: Domain question |
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Ok my site is hosted on a friends site, so my url is something like
mysite.host.net, now i've been wanting to buy a domain name so i'm just wondering if it will work since my site address is a sub domain, also would i need a DNS manager? as i don't want it to just redirect to my site. |
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Paul
Joined: 18 Jan 2004
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Location: Worthing, UK
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| Posted: 7/23/2004, 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Unless you have a dedicated IP, which is quite unusual, you will need your friends host to add that the subdomain can also be accessed using that domain name (in Windows, its called a "Host Header" - not sure what *nix people call it) Unless they do that, the only way to access the site is by redirecting - which you said you already said you dont want to do!
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Andrew2
Joined: 27 Feb 2004
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| Posted: 9/13/2004, 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'd just move my webpages/DB over to the new host and forget about the subdomain you've been using. If you were actually getting significant traffic to the old site, just provide a page that allows visitors to click to visit the new site, at least that way you can avoid the redirect.
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