Domain Forwarding

OBography · April 27, 2007

Hello everyone... this is my first post, so forgive me if my question is novice.
My smugmug site wcfineart.smugmug.com. I have setup a custom hostname as www.wcfineart.com which I am very happy with. Here is my question... I have several other domain names that I would like to be directed to a certain category within my site. i.e. I also own www.mysurfingphotos.com and would like people to be directed to http://wcfineart.smugmug.com/Sports or better yet, http://wcfineart.smugmug.com/Sports/313757 when they type in www.mysurfingphotos.com. Is this possible? Thank you very much!

Andy · April 27, 2007

This might be of help
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=59237

OBography · April 28, 2007

Andy wrote:

This might be of help
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=59237

Thank you... I used that so now you can see the sports sub categories at www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos . My original problem is still there though. I have registered www.mysurfingphotos.com through GoDaddy and would like to forward that to www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. When I tell GoDaddy to forward that address to the url above, I get directed to www.smugmug.com, not www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. Do you know how I can make this work?

Andy · April 28, 2007

OBography wrote:

Thank you... I used that so now you can see the sports sub categories at www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos . My original problem is still there though. I have registered www.mysurfingphotos.com through GoDaddy and would like to forward that to www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. When I tell GoDaddy to forward that address to the url above, I get directed to www.smugmug.com, not www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. Do you know how I can make this work?

The problem with forwarding is that cookies and passwords are affected - so that's why we CNAME things.

I don't quite know how to accomplish what you want, but maybe someone else does

rainforest1155 · April 28, 2007

OBography wrote:

Thank you... I used that so now you can see the sports sub categories at www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos . My original problem is still there though. I have registered www.mysurfingphotos.com through GoDaddy and would like to forward that to www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. When I tell GoDaddy to forward that address to the url above, I get directed to www.smugmug.com, not www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos. Do you know how I can make this work?

Yeah, in this case you can't use CNAME forward from GoDaddy.
Do you have FTP access to the GoDaddy domain - meaning can you upload webpages to the site?

If you're able to do that try putting a file named ".htaccess" (without quotes) in the domain root folder containing the following line:

Redirect permanent  /   http://www.wcfineart.com/sports/my_surfing_photos/

Maybe this does the job.

Sebastian

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