How to mask a URL
Greetings!
I am just a lonely Linux System Administrator and definitely not a webmaster. But for some reason I was given on this kind of task. I've been searching on Google for the past few days to address this problem on masking a url. Usually, I get suggestions to do it like mod_rewrite, frameset and iframes. I already tested it all but the url just freezes.
But what we want to achieved is to have a mask url that changed its link. As an example, for a mask url like www.example.com when you click the menu or any other links its just freezes on www.example.com. But what we want is when you click on "Contact Us", the url now then becomes www.example.com/contact_us.php.
Is this possible? I really and badly need your help. Thanks a million in advance.
Tata Dano
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steve@zaptechso... posted this at 10:34 — 28th January 2010.
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Hello,
Use the following code :
?a href='www.example.com/contact_us.php'>Contact Us ?/a>
please use "<" in place of "?"
JeevesBond posted this at 10:47 — 28th January 2010.
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Not sure if you're still around OP, but I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to do. Would you be able to explain exactly what you're trying to achieve?
Also, and this is for Steve, you can add code to your post using
<code>tags. So, I think you meant:<a href="http://www.example.com/contact_us.php">Contact Us</a>Not sure that's what the original poster is asking for though.
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Megan posted this at 15:21 — 28th January 2010.
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Sounds like he just wants the URL to show as example.com regardless of what page you're on, except for the contact us page, where he wants to show the actual file name. Not sure why you would want to do this, and it sounds like it would be a problem for search engines.
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lakbaytaodev posted this at 06:47 — 5th February 2010.
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Thanks for your replies. "Contact Us" is just an example..but what we really want is that links on the menu will really shows up and all the other links. Using iframes or frameset would only stick to just one url..it freezes. What I mean is, the mask url will really behave as the original url.
Hope that helps.
Tata Dano
Linux Registered User #383849
http://SocialSAM.com
lakbaytaodev posted this at 07:07 — 5th February 2010.
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As follow up,
original site: jamming.com
masked url: musikero.com
so, when clicking on the orig site: jamming.com/register.php, jamming.com/about_us.php, jamming.com/join_event.php
On the mask url, that should also be: musikero.com/register.php, musikero.com/about_us.php, musikero.com/join_event.php
This is what we want to achieved.
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What we have right now:
orig site: jamming.com/register.php, jamming.com/about_us.php, jamming.com/join_event.php
mask site: musikero.com (its just freeze and nothing happen when clicking on the pages)
Kindly help me out guys....
Tata Dano
Linux Registered User #383849
http://SocialSAM.com
lakbaytaodev posted this at 07:49 — 5th February 2010.
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For follow up again:
I came across with php+curl and it suggest that it can solved my problem...but since I am not a programmer I still don't have any clue on this one.
Please help. Thanks.
Tata Dano
Linux Registered User #383849
http://SocialSAM.com
Britsenigma posted this at 00:55 — 7th February 2010.
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This happens automatically if you "park" your domain on the majority of web hosting control panels.
I will state, this is not clever, google can spot duplicate content, and it tends to favour displaying the original site / domain, the others might not even get indexed or will get dropped from search results as I understand it.
Google doesn't like duplicate content. Google it
Or read this: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
I was using 2 domains for a single site for 5 years, google had indexed various pages at both domains, I changed over (Which I felt was risky as we were page 1 already) to a redirect, and choose to advertise a primary domain, now we're no.1 ranked.
lakbaytaodev posted this at 07:25 — 9th February 2010.
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Thank you so much for the info. We will definitely consider this one to maximize results.
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