How to setup a URL alias for my photo biz

Truelight · Nov 14, 2009

I wasn't sure what forum to post this in, but figured if anyone knew about this, the pros would...

I currently host my photo albums for a photography business on Pbase -

http://www.pbase.com/truelight

Yes, in time I know I should set up my own website, but for now I'd like something simpler for my clients to remember. I see using GoDaddy.com that the domain - (NameILike).com is available as a domain. I'd like to purchase that so as to register the domain, but I would like it for now to automatically transfer people to my existing pbase site as above. If I understand, this is how an alias works.

If so, what is involved in making this work?? Then later, when I do have my own website I would think I could just use the domain name I register - (NameILike.)com correct?

Thanks...

Rick

(For that matter, it might also be nice to have an e-mail alias - @.com
that would send mail to my MSN account. Could that be made to work as well?)

PenguinPhotoCo · Nov 14, 2009

when you sign up at godaddy and get your name you have to tell them where to go when someone types in that name. You simply put in your pbase name and its' done.

mschf · Nov 15, 2009

You can go with 301 redirect, javascript redirect, htaccess mod rewrite, but if you're not familiar with these things at this time then I'd simply go with meta http-equiv. This is what you'd need to do:

create an index document (often named "index.html")
copy/paste the following bare minimum html markup into the document
save the document, upload it to your hosting root directory, and you're done (chances are that your root directory has a temp index.html file, if so, just let yours override it):

<html>
<head>
<title>Some Title&lt⁄title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url= http://www.pbase.com/truelight >
<⁄head>
<body>
<⁄body>
<⁄html>

Once you decide to set up your own galleries, you'd just replace the above code with code for your galleries.

As for email forwarding, that's easily done as well through the godaddy.com control panel but why would you want to do that if hosting usually includes your own pop email account(s), meaning you could have something like [email protected], which makes your site appear much more respectable overall for clients vs. them getting email from some external msn address.

If you need a bit of help setting up the redirection, shoot me an email. Just takes a minute or so to do

--
~ Martin
http://www.martinpolanic.com

Larry Berman · Nov 15, 2009

In your host records, create a URL redirect and put in your PBase URL. You should be able to create a mailbox and forward that to.

Truelight said:
I currently host my photo albums for a photography business on Pbase -

in time I know I should set up my own website, but for now I'd like something simpler for my clients to remember. I see using GoDaddy.com that the domain - (NameILike).com is available as a domain. I'd like to purchase that so as to register the domain, but I would like it for now to automatically transfer people to my existing pbase site as above. If I understand, this is how an alias works.

Member said:
If so, what is involved in making this work?? Then later, when I do have my own website I would think I could just use the domain name I register - (NameILike.)com correct?

--
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com

thesurfdog · Nov 15, 2009

PenguinPhotoCo said:
when you sign up at godaddy and get your name you have to tell them where to go when someone types in that name. You simply put in your pbase name and its' done.

Yep, they make it real easy...

You can even forward multiple names back to the "main" name...which is what we do. (That way, variations of our names end up where they're supposed to be...or specific urls can point to specific pages within our main website.)

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