The Webmaster Forum and its own domain! -
Curtis,
This might be of interest to you then 
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quote:We have just submitted your appliation for webmaster-forums.com to the InterNIC, who is the organization responsible for registering US domain names. Your domain name should be active within 2-4 business days. You will be able to tell if your domian name has been processed by doing a whois on your domain name, which can be done at anytime.
The problem I am having is finding a fail-safe method to transfer the UBB to a different location, once this is resolved I will sort out this move out.
How about that for service!
Opinions welcome.
JP
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Curtis Stevens posted this at 20:13 — 24th April 1999.
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Hi JP,
I'm not sure what kind of problem you mean, but this might help.
You can add this html to the page, and nothing else when you want to switch, and you should be done.
**snip** was forwarding to other page **snip**
That will redirect any new visitors to the new web site.
HTH
Curtis
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Rick302 posted this at 01:44 — 25th April 1999.
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Hey JP!
What you could do is simply this...
**snip** more HTML that seemed to be causing a problem **snip**
When the domain is active, put this on the index.html page of the new domain, it'll automatically forward new visitors to the forums and keep the domain name in the browser so they won't even know! Also, it'll allow them the chance to check out the rest of the site here!
Just a thought, let me know what you think.
And example so you can see what that code does is my old site fly.to/linkcity/
for MSIE click the view menu, then click source, it'll bring up notepad so you can view the HTML for the page. the "fly.to" domain stays in the address location bar on the browser, but the site's actually hosted on Angelfire! The visitors don't know what though!
C-ya
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Rick302 posted this at 01:47 — 25th April 1999.
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Guess that didn't work..... let me try again.
< frameset rows="100%,*" border="0" frameborder="0" framespacing="0"framecolor="#000000" >
< frame src="http://www.what-next.com/ubb/" name="thepage" >
< /frameset >
< NOFRAMES >This site uses frames, if your browser does not support them click < A href=" http://www.what-next.com/ubb/">here< /A>
< /NOFRAMES >
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Rick302 posted this at 01:49 — 25th April 1999.
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Jeez.... talk about rough work getting HTML to show.... There's the code..... it has some spaces but you can take them out and it'll work!
-Rick-
Curtis Stevens posted this at 16:37 — 25th April 1999.
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Hi JP,
In my opinion, the forum would be much more professional and better if it has its own domain name, and web site. Like webmasterforum.com
I think this would give it more potential, especially getting listed with Yahoo.
What do you think?
Thanks
Curtis
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JP Stones posted this at 23:19 — 25th April 1999.
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Rick,
) I know about this method (very good unless you actually host your site with Geocities and then all these banners pop up!) the real problem is that if I keep the site hosted through What Next? I will be using up my bandwidth while having a virtually dormant webmaster-forums.com site. Is that any clearer?
Thanks for that (seemed painstaking
JP
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JP Stones posted this at 23:49 — 1st May 1999.
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Craig,
Hi again, is there any way you could guide me through this process when I do it later this week as I am very inexperienced wit this kind of work.
Cheers.
JP
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BRIAN posted this at 22:10 — 2nd May 1999.
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Put this line in your .htaccess file in the root dir:
Redirect /ubb/ http://www.webmaster-forums.com/
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JP Stones posted this at 20:54 — 3rd May 1999.
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Thanks Brian but I have decided to move the whole UBB to a new server to ease the load on the What Next? site bandwidth.
Cheers,
JP
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