DNS Help

Does anyone know how to redirect traffic from a main website to a subdomain website transparently? For example, www.johndoe.com to johndoe.domain.com.
The URL should still read johndoe.com.

 

I dont know what you mean by transparently...perhaps 'masking'? Masking is generally frowned upon.

You can use htaccess and/or php to do redirects. I suspect you will want to use htaccess, but I'm no expert at writing the code.

 

Maybe something like this?

PHP:

<frameset rows="100%,*" border='0' frameborder='0'>
<frame name="_main" src="http://johndoe.domain.com/" noresize frameborder='0'>
</frameset>

Copy and paste the above code, name it index.html/php/asp/htm and put it in the root/www/htdocs directory.

 

Let's try a different approach.

I want to build a new web site for my homepage. I'm putting it in a subdirectory off the root directory of the main website (ex. johndoe.com/newsite/). Upon completion, how do I set newsite to be the new main page without disturbing the old. I don't want to move the content of the directory because that might break some of the scripts.

I've looked into .htaccess and DNS CNAMES but don't know which is more appropriate.

 

If your domain is registered, just change the settings that are registered. Or if your using a DNS service, change in there. I know DynDNS supports this.

Or just change the index to point to your new page.

 

If you're using Linux and cPanel, it can be easily done by creating a subdomain, say newsite.johndoe.com that is pointed to johndoe.com/newsite. cPanel will then automatically create the CNAME entry in the server's DNS. If your account supports multiple domains, the same above is applied but for a new domain name, newdomain.com pointed to johndoe.com/newsite. You must be using your web host's DNS servers for this to be done.