What is URL Masking?
If you enable URL Masking, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to
your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will
remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will
ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination
URL. For example, your website is hosted at
http://www.tripod.com/12345/YourSite/index.html
and you choose to forward http://www.domainname.com
to this website. If you enable URL Masking, your visitors will never see http://www.tripod.com/12345/YourSite/index.html
as a URL in their browser address bar.
How does URL Masking work?
In case of URL Masking, the Domain Forwarding server sends the client a Frames
page where the Frame Source contains the destination URL you have specified.
This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change
though the client sees the destination page.
Enabling / Disabling URL Masking
You can enable / disable URL Masking after you have bought Domain Forwarding
for a
particular Domain Name. You need to follow the steps mentioned below to activate
the same -
1. Login to your Control
Panel and search for the domain name.
Click here to
know how >>
2. Click on the Domain name in
the search results to get to the Order details view.
3. Now click on Manage Service in the
Domain Forwarding Toolbar.
4. Select the check box adjacent to Enable URL Masking
for enabling this feature and deselect it for disabling this feature.
Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a page title and META Tags
for the Frames page which is sent to the Client. This can be done by simply
putting in your Meta Tags and <TITLE> Tags in the Header Tags box. Whatever
you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between <HEAD> </HEAD>
Tags
on the Frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the
following format only:
Meta Tags
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Your comma-separated keywords
are entered here">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Website description of the forwarded domain
name can be mentioned here">
Page Title
<TITLE>Your Webpage Title can be mentioned
here</TITLE>
Note: Do not mention any text outside the
above mentioned Tags or it will disrupt the domain forwarding service for your
domain name.
NOFRAMES Page Content
When URL Masking is enabled, the page served
to the client is a Frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a
Frames based
page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a
Frames based
website. You may want to set an alternative <NOFRAMES> page content, which would
be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your <NOFRAMES> page HTML
content in the No Frames Page Content box. Whatever you
enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between <NOFRAMES> </NOFRAMES>
Tags on the Frames page sent to the visitor.
You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display <NOFRAMES> page content.
