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Re[2]: [cobalt-users] domain forwarding, or is that different - Raq3i

You are an awesome group :)

Here are different things I did to try different methods


You can create a single HTML page with a META REFRESH within the
header, but that would be a waste of one of the 250 (or whatever)
sites a Cobalt limits you too.....


I don't have near that many sites, so I'm fine with creating more.


To make domain1.com forward to domain.com, use the following file as
the main file within the account for domain1.com

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.domain.com";>


My entire index.html file:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.domain.com";>
</HEAD>
</HTML>
Worked like a charm - once I fixed the entry to have my domain name, it took me 10 seconds to figure out why I got to domain.com :)
I am using this method for a number of sites that I have to set up anyway, that is, I have sites that have no web site and I want to point them to another, but I need email on the domain, so I have dns and the site setup, this solves that type of site.
CNAME: I set this up for sites that have no domain or dns entries, no email, etc., just a pointer to the other site. PROBLEM: when I go to the domain, I am getting redirected to the correct IP, but the wrong domain on that IP.
I'd prefer to not edit my httpd.conf as much as possible, so I'm going with the meta tag, it seems to be work great and it is certainly easy to set up; also, it gives me great flexibility to redirect to anyplace I want, and change it anytime very easily.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!! All this input has been great, and from the posts, it sounds like it is good for others as well. thanks for not just telling to READ THE ARCHIVES ... as my original question stated, I was willing to do that, I wasn't sure exactly what I was searching for :) 

Have a great weekend,
Jale