Marked URL Forwarding

[Guest]

Hello All -

I need some help with forwarding a website to another website. I have read
a few of other threads on the issue and these don't seem to be a match to my
situation. I currently host my own dns and iis websites. Right now I have a
website xyz.com that uses host headers and redirects within IIS to a website
on a server I don't own. The url is abc.com/mydirectory.

This redirects users of xyz.com to abc.com/mydirectory without any masking.
I would like to mask the redirect. To test if DNS would serve my purpose, I
setup a new cname record within the dns zone. The record I set was
new.xyz.com redirect to abc.com/mydirectory. It didn't work? I read a
thread somewhere that this might be caused by host headers. I don't
understand how this could be so, because IIS shouldn't be a factor because
DNS is transferring to another domain. So how can this be?

Aside from all that - How do I make a masked url with IIS 6.0 and DNS in
Windows 2k3?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Cheers,

John McLagan
Johnny on the Spot

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

Hello All -

I need some help with forwarding a website to another website. I
have read a few of other threads on the issue and these don't seem to
be a match to my situation. I currently host my own dns and iis
websites. Right now I have a website xyz.com that uses host headers
and redirects within IIS to a website on a server I don't own. The
url is abc.com/mydirectory.

This redirects users of xyz.com to abc.com/mydirectory without any
masking. I would like to mask the redirect. To test if DNS would
serve my purpose, I setup a new cname record within the dns zone.
The record I set was new.xyz.com redirect to abc.com/mydirectory. It
didn't work? I read a thread somewhere that this might be caused by
host headers. I don't understand how this could be so, because IIS
shouldn't be a factor because DNS is transferring to another domain.
So how can this be?

Aside from all that - How do I make a masked url with IIS 6.0 and DNS
in Windows 2k3?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

If i'm getting the question right you want xyz.com to display the page at
abc.com/mydirectory and have xyz.com in the address bar?

The way to do that is by using a page on xyz.com within a single hidden
frame. This works as long as all links are relative links. Registrars that
offer this use this method and often have a header or footer frame.
Otherwise, you have to settle for doing a redirect.

 

[Guest]

If i'm getting the question right you want xyz.com to display the page at
abc.com/mydirectory and have xyz.com in the address bar?

The way to do that is by using a page on xyz.com within a single hidden
frame. This works as long as all links are relative links. Registrars that
offer this use this method and often have a header or footer frame.
Otherwise, you have to settle for doing a redirect.

Hi Kevin -

Thanks for the info. I think I will deal with the redirect instead of
rewritting the default pages

Cheers,

John McLagan
Johnny on the Spot