cname url redirect

[Aquitaine]

Hi all
I need some help with cname redirects.

i want to redirect a subdomain like a.b.com to yahoo.com/some/page.html.

while looking like it was still at a.b.com

I can redirect to domains like yahoo.com but not pages on the site.

Anyone have an idea ?

Thanks

Aquitaine

[DigitalN]

Hello,

You don't really want to be using CNAME's for that purpose.

Here is an example of when a CNAME can be used

You have xyz.com hosted on your box and its dns is hosted elsewhere (Say zoneedit.com hosts the dns)

You can make an A records to point to the IP on your server for xyz.com

Now if the IP of xyz.com changes, you have no control over the dns, so it would be up to the client to change the IP at zoneedit.com - potentially the site would be offline.

You can use a CNAME in this example as follows.

Instead of adding A records pointing to your server IP, assuming the account is using the same IP (shared IP) that the server hostname uses, they could use a CNAME for www.xyz.com to point to your.server.com - that way if the IP changes, no changes need to be made by clients who use 3rd party dns.

You could setup a subdomain and place an index.php file with a redirect header , to point to the page on yahoo that you wanted to, or use .htaccess

PHP header redirect

<?php header("Location: http://www.yahoo.com/page.html");
?>

You could use .htaccess or a META tag within the index page of the sub dir too.

If you want the browser to show your address, then you need to create a page that uses frames, to load a the top portion (frame) on your server, and the lower frame loads the remote URL.

[Aquitaine]

hey digitaln thanks for the reply,
i managed to figure that part out for myself, but what im trying to do is have an affiliate script installed at say abc.com and use affiliate.xyz.com look like its abc.com

Now if i was just dealing with a domain name it wouldve worked fine, but the problem is that the url is like
abc.com/affiliate/page.html

So a 0 frame would work best, but i dont know if cookies would get set and it might ruin the whole purpose of the affiliate program if it tracks via cookies which im sure it does.


Anyone else have any ideas on how this sort of thing could be setup ?

Thanks

Aquitaine

[DigitalN]

I suppose it would depend upon which affiliate script you are using - try a frames page and test it out or ask the affiliate script provider what they recommend or other users of it, to see what they do.