Parked Domain / Redirect Scenario

[verdon]

Hi,

I hope I can explain this OK...

1) I have an account setup for a client, lets call it
maindomain.com

2) I have a bunch of domains parked on that, such as
maindomain.ca
altdomain.com
altdomain.ca
altdom3.com
altdom3.ca
altdom4.com
altdom4.ca

Now, this all works as expected, no problem. They all resolve to the same site, yet retain their own domain names in the URL.

Where the problem begins is when I try to add redirects on a few of these. For instance, although I want all of these to point to the same site and to retain their unique names in the URL, I would like some of them to redirect to subfolders. For example,

maindomain.ca
altdomain.com --> altdomain.com/quotes
altdomain.ca --> altdomain.ca/quotes
altdom3.com
altdom3.ca
altdom4.com --> altdom4.com/quotes
altdom4.ca --> altdom4.ca/quotes

No matter what I put in the redirection field, I can't seem to get this to work. I get the 'too many redirects' sorts of errors.

I can get these to work...
altdomain.com --> maindomain.com/quotes
altdomain.com --> maindomain.com/quotes.php

but not these...
altdomain.com --> altdomain.com/quotes
altdomain.com --> altdomain.com/quotes.php

My client really wants the unique names to be maintained in the URL. I don't care if I achieve this in cPanel/Parked Domains/Redirection or in an .htaccess file, or in the httpdf.conf file or any other way.

Any advice?

[verdon]

No thoughts? Is it really that odd of a scenario?

[UBERHOST]

No thoughts? Is it really that odd of a scenario?

For the ones you want to point to a folder, why not set them up as addon domains instead of parked domains?

[verdon]

Hi Uber

Thanks for the input. I gave that a try, but it won't work. What I didn't explain, is that in this case /quotes is not actually a physical folder. It is a mod_rewrite that actually goes to /index.php?module=pagesmith&id=xx

Maybe what I need to change is the default index page in the httpd.conf entry for these domains, so that they point to index.php with the arguments?