[tpg00]

I know what I want but not the right term for it.

I want to have a URL like www.BigDogs.net and I want it to open/forward to my actual website www.reallyLONGURL.com.

What is it that I need? I have seen a guy that had 3 different URL on his page that got my attention and when I clicked them - they all took me to his main website with the really long URL.

So can you tell me what this is called and how and where I accomplish it ?

Thanks a million,
Teresa

[tomdkat]

Is "TinyURL" what you're looking for? Do a search on "TinyURL" to get some links.

Peace...

[madd74]

otherwise, if you have access to .htaccess you could use 301 redirects

[TheRobatron]

You can use javascript redirection:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.location("longURL.com")
</script>

but that's not really very reliable or good practice.

So you can use .htaccess to do a server-side redirect (as suggested before). The format for redirection is:

redirect accessed-file URL-to-go-to

so

redirect /dir/oldfile.html http://www.longURL.com/dir/newpage.html

A 301 redirect is used for telling the server and search engine that a domain has permanently moved (which I gather is not what you want).

Hope that helps

[tpg00]

The page I want to forward to is already created for me - a company page. I can't adjust the code that is why another person I know uses different URL's to catch your interest to click it and it then opens his page. I would like to do that as well. I was thinking I would have to get another webpage then do a forward on that page to the other page. But his is FAST, you don't see another page even open or tell you it is forwarding you or anything, you just click that url and poof his company web page opens.

so does this info help more? That is why the 301 redirect would not work for me.

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Is "TinyURL" what you're looking for? Do a search on "TinyURL" to get some links.

Peace...

You can't choose your own domain with TinyURL
He gave a specific domain in his example (BigDogs)

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by tpg00

That is why the 301 redirect would not work for me.

Why? A 301 sounds exactly like what you want. It redirects without the need of a separate webpage, so it goes "fast" (as you put it).


RewriteRule / http://www.longdomain.com/page.html [R=301,L]

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by namenotfound

You can't choose your own domain with TinyURL
He gave a specific domain in his example (BigDogs)

Hey, leave me alone!

Peace...

[tpg00]

I don't think I am asking the question right therefore no one understands what I need.

I can't write the code on the webpage / it has already been created for me and only the company can do the code different. Ok lets say I have a avon webpage and I want to share this URL on many other websites but not my URL [example: www.avon.com/tpg] now when I post that URL it is boring not catchy. So i want to use a URL like www.HealthyMoney.com and I want it to redirect to the avon page. See Avon created the page for me so I can't mess with the code to add the redirect code. Now with this information can someone tell me how to do this?

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[cwwozniak]

You do not modify anything on the www.avon.com/tpg site that has the actual content you want people to see when they go to the other adresses.

You would need to register and host the www.HealthyMoney.com and any other domain names you wish to redirect to the www.avon./tpg site. The redirection code then gets put on those servers. There may be some companies like http://www.domainredirect.com/ (found them with Google but know nothing about them) that are set up for providing such services.

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by cwwozniak

You would need to register and host the www.HealthyMoney.com and any other domain names you wish to redirect to the www.avon./tpg site. The redirection code then gets put on those servers.

Couldn't this redirection be done at the DNS level? If so, then no redirection code is needed since the domain *itself* will resolve to the right URL. Would a CNAME DNS definition work? Like:

www.healthymoney.com CNAME www.avon.com/tpg

I haven't tried anything like that before so I don't know if it would actually work or not.

Peace...

[cwwozniak]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Couldn't this redirection be done at the DNS level? ... Would a CNAME DNS definition work?[/url]

I haven't tried anything like that before so I don't know if it would actually work or not.

Yes, it could probably be done with CNAME definitions. As far as I know, you still need to register the domain names for each of the aliases you wish to use. The registrar would either set up the DNS records on their name server for you or give you information on how to access them yourself.

I have not done it personally though. One of our company web sites does have a couple of alias URLs. The hosting company of the primary site took care of all the details of registering the alias domain names for us and pointing them to the primary site.