RE: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser?

Sounds to me like an Apache Alias Directive is what you need. can you get at your apache configuration? :-) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Price [mailto:pricee@hhbrown.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:22 PM > To: Kevin Stone > Cc: PHP-general > Subject: Re: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser? > > > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Kevin Stone wrote: > > > Here's a crazy question. Say I have a script (such as a bulliten board > > script) that is run by many clients (other websites) off of one location > > on my web account. Think of it as a service of some kind. Is there > > anyway to trick the browser into displaying the client's domain rather > > than my own? I would want it to look as though you've never left their > > website when in fact you are now on mine. Possible? > > My domain name registrar uses a neat trick called "stealth forwarding". > It's probably explained in some tutorial on the web, so I won't > speculate on how it's done, but the principle is this -- > > You have a web page hosted at a certain ISP... where the domain name is > something like http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html > > But you just purchased a fancy domain name from an independent domain > name registrar (not thru your ISP) and you want to point the new domain > name to the old domain name. Unfortunately, the ISP didn't give you a > dedicated IP address and they won't give you a virtual host, so you have > no way to map your shiny new domain name to your web site. > > Stealth forwarding essentially makes the entire browser window into one > giant new frame. The contents of the frame are > http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html, but because the frameset is > hosted by > the indie domain name registrar, and they have your shiny new domain > name mapped to a virtual host on their servers or something, it looks > like (judging from the URL bar) a user is browsing > http://shinynewdomainname.com, not > http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html. > > The only problem is that (a) it relies on frames, so it might not work > for all browsers (and definitely won't work for scripts), and (b) the > URL never changes -- the domain name registrar is hosting the frameset, > not the site, so all the URL bar ever shows is the name of the master > frameset -- http://shinynewdomainname.com. > > My registrar is easyDNS, maybe they have information about how it's done > if you can't find it elsewhere but I'd be surprised if you couldn't. > > > Erik > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php