Domain Name Forum

**lilycup** · 08-20-2007, 07:54 PM

Sorry for the rubbish title, I didn't know quite how else to put it.

I have a client that would like two website domains. The first domain, for example mybook.com would be a site that had information about her book and where you could buy it.

The second domain would be an empty site, and all it would do is when you typed the url, for example mywork.com, you would immediately be directed to mybook.com without having to click on a link or anything like that.

Is this possible? And if so, what code would I use so that when you typed in mywork.com you would automatically be directed to mybook.com

**JamieLewis** · 08-20-2007, 07:57 PM

Yes It is possible.

You could use .htaccess (ala http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess7.shtml) to redirect or just a simple php file.

Jamie

**lilycup** · 08-20-2007, 08:07 PM

Thank you! I will have a look at that now.

Would this work also?:

Code:

 <Body onload="location='http://www.mybook.com';">

**JamieLewis** · 08-20-2007, 08:20 PM

It would, but it wouldn't work for people with javascript diabled, search engine spiders or text browsers.

Jamie

**lilycup** · 08-20-2007, 08:30 PM

There's always a catch.

So if I were to use the .htaccess would I just have a normal index page and somewhere in the code put this:

Code:

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://www.mybook.com

How would I change the oldfile.html section to be mybook.com?

**JamieLewis** · 08-20-2007, 08:36 PM

You would put that in a file called ".htaccess", there is no file name just the ".htaccess" extension.

Jamie

**lilycup** · 08-20-2007, 08:43 PM

Ok, thank you.

**lilycup** · 08-20-2007, 08:50 PM

I got it to work perfectly, thank you very much for your help!

**ForrestCroce** · 08-20-2007, 10:51 PM

Check to make sure it's a 301 ( permanent, not temporary ) redirect being used. I you don't promote the other domain it won't really matter, but if a link gets out to it, the main site may as well benefit.