The Domain Forwarding Management consists of the following:

Setting the Destination URL for your domain name

This can be achieved by following the steps mentioned below:

  1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. 1

  2. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

    Note

    • The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated, when you click the Manage Domain Forwarding link for the first time.

    • For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

      Attention

      You are not allowed to perform this action.

  3. Enter the Destination URL in the text box provided. This may be of the form domain.com, www.domain.com,www.domain.com/index/index.html, subdomain.domain.com, etc.. You may also choose http or https protocol from the dropdown menu.

  4. Click the Save button.

Additional Options 

URL Masking 

If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website; however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination domain name.

Example:

Your website is hosted at http://destination-domain-name.com and you choose to forward http://your-domain-name.com to this website. If you enable URL Masking, your visitors will never see http://destination-domain-name.com as a URL in their browser address bar.

URL Masking will also work perfectly with Path Forwarding. In this case, if you type in http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed will be of http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html.

Additional Information

Path Forwarding

How does URL Masking work? 

In case of URL Masking, the Domain Forwarding Server sends the visitor a frames page where the frame source contains the destination URL you have specified. This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change though the visitor sees the destination page.

To Enable / Disable URL Masking: 

  1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. 2

  2. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

    Note

    • The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated, when you click the Manage Domain Forwarding link for the first time.

    • For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

      Attention

      You are not allowed to perform this action.

  3. Select either:

    • the On radio button under URL Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding section for enabling this feature, or

    • the Off radio button for disabling it.

    Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a Page Title and META Tags for the frames page which is sent to the visitor. This can be done by simply putting in your Meta Tags and <TITLE> Tags in the Header Tags box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between <HEAD> </HEAD> Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the following format only:

    Meta Tags (Anchor: meta)

    <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Your comma-separated keywords are entered here">
    <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Website description of the forwarded domain name can be mentioned here">

    Page Title (Anchor: title)

    <TITLE>Your Webpage Title can be mentioned here</TITLE>

    Note

    Do not mention any text outside the above mentioned Tags or it will disrupt the Domain Forwarding Service for your domain name.

    NOFRAMES Page Content (Anchor: noframes)

    When URL Masking is enabled, the page served to the client is a frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a frames based page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a frames based website. You may want to set an alternative <NOFRAMES> page content, which would be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your <NOFRAMES> page HTML content in the No Frames Page Content box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES> Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display <NOFRAMES> page content.

  4. Click the Save button.

Subdomain Forwarding

Using the Subdomain Forwarding service, you can forward any visitor from http://subdomain.your-domain-name.com to http://destination-domain-name.com/subdomain. The Subdomain Forwarding Service can also be used in conjunction with URL Masking Service.

Example:

If Subdomain Forwarding is enabled, then:

  • http://payments.your-domain-name.com will get successfully forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/.

  • http://credit-card.payments.your-domain-name.com will get forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/credit-card/.

To Enable / Disable Subdomain Forwarding: 

  1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. 3

  2. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

    Note

    • The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated, when you click the Manage Domain Forwarding link for the first time.

    • For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

      Attention

      You are not allowed to perform this action.

  3. Select either:

    • the On radio button under Sub Domain Forwarding section for enabling this feature, or

    • the Off radio button for disabling this feature.

  4. Click the Save button.

Path Forwarding

This feature would be highly useful when you already have a full fledged website on a particular domain name and want to not only forward some other domain name to it, but also all the paths associated with the website. Thus, if you forward http://your-domain-name.com tohttp://destination-domain-name.com and you enable Path Forwarding for it, then http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html would be forwarded to http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html and so on.

Path Forwarding will also work perfectly with URL Masking. In this case, if you type in http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed will be of http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html.

Additional Information

URL Masking

To Enable / Disable Path Forwarding: 

  1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Domain Forwarding Service interface. 4

  2. Click the Manage Domain Forwarding link. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.

    Note

    • The Domain Forwarding Service gets activated, when you click the Manage Domain Forwarding link for the first time.

    • For Resellers: The Domain Forwarding Management interface will be displayed only if the Order belongs to a Customer immediately under you. Otherwise, the below error message with be displayed:

      Attention

      You are not allowed to perform this action.

  3. Select either:

    • the On radio button under Path Forwarding section for enabling this feature, or

    • the Off radio button for disabling this feature.

  4. Click the Save button.