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smcaul · 21st November 2008, 18:14

Sorry steve but I think you might not be totally correct on sub-domains. Your example shows folders under the domain. A subdomain would be www.abc.mydomain.com or www.xyz.mydomain.com you would then need to have your other domains on forward to these, if using the domainmonster hosting you can do this cloaked so that the person looking up the domain only sees the original address they entered in the address bar of the browser.

If you go to http://www.tachoread.com/ then it looks like it is hosted at www.tachoread.com, but in fact it is hosted at www.transmac.co.uk/tachoread. This is done by cloaked forwarding via domainmonster.

pondweed · 21st November 2008, 18:46

great stuff.... but if I wanted to make a web reference to a particular page on www.tachoread.com or whatever, I presume I'd be stuffed using cloaking??

It works very nicely/looks very legit on yours, having looked (i.e. the pages dont change, it just reads the domain all the time in the browser window)

Simon · 21st November 2008, 18:53

You can do some damn clever stuff if your hosting server supports PHP server-side scripting. You can mask and cloak all manner of URL's both in part and in full. However, we're getting a little advanced here...

smcaul · 22nd November 2008, 19:21

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Originally Posted by pondweed

great stuff.... but if I wanted to make a web reference to a particular page on www.tachoread.com or whatever, I presume I'd be stuffed using cloaking??

It works very nicely/looks very legit on yours, having looked (i.e. the pages dont change, it just reads the domain all the time in the browser window)

Yep thats right, trying to link to a certain page would mean needing to use the proper URL of the site where it resided. Other option is self hosting as mentioned earlier, which really is not that difficult, even the config file that you need to set up with APACHE has a sort of idiot guide built in to it.

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pondweed This is my second home Waiter, Waiter! I seem to have a Roomster in my drive... Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Sussex Posts: 3,268 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	great stuff.... but if I wanted to make a web reference to a particular page on www.tachoread.com or whatever, I presume I'd be stuffed using cloaking?? It works very nicely/looks very legit on yours, having looked (i.e. the pages dont change, it just reads the domain all the time in the browser window)

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Simon Banned - Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: - Posts: 10,318 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	You can do some damn clever stuff if your hosting server supports PHP server-side scripting. You can mask and cloak all manner of URL's both in part and in full. However, we're getting a little advanced here...