Domain Name Masking Redirect
Keeps the destination url in the browser address bar.
Domain name masking redirect. Ben answers his first question on stack overflow. Browse other questions tagged dns cname domain name google domains or ask your own question. Domain masking or url masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the url field of a user s web browser in favor of another name. From that time i became inactive in buying domains dns configurations etc.
The overflow blog podcast 276. Both options will redirect your visitors but forwarding with masking has additional features you can use. Domain name cloaking masking. Html inline frame or frameset so a frame embedded in the main website actually points to some other site.
Now how can i offer my customers to have their custom domain to be treated as allies with that sub domain. Setup cname redirect or custom domain with url masking posted may 8 2017 16 6k views nginx dns ubuntu 16 04. Forwarding only and forwarding with masking. Cloaking and masking mean the same thing.
Domain forwarding has two options. This will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination url. Using this method your web pages will appear in a browser frame while the browser address bar will show your domain name. Some even didn t allow freely to change the nameservers.
There are many ways to do this including the following examples. But here instead of using a script or html for redirection the domain name itself redirects the user. Url frame also known as url masking or url cloaking is similar to url redirect except that instead of redirecting the client to your web page the web page is displayed in a frame from the server. Domain forwarding with masking what it is how it works.
Url rewriting e g mod rewrite or aliases to have the web server. No matter what page is visited on your web site the address won t change when using masking. For example you would like your main page to be linked to other website or subfolder then place the below script in a file and name the file as index html in your website root directory. When a domain is set to forward visitors to some other website the domain name does not.
Domain forwarding is similar to redirect where a page takes the visitor to another website.