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Posted by Ed Mullen on 09/02/06 01:56
dorayme wrote:
> In article <fpWdnU8NEYvI4GXZnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>> In article <jPudnTW3VIucZmvZnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>>> Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I may be missing something but you already have what you want through
>>>> your ISP, Comcast. It's called Personal Web Pages. Once you register a
>>>> domain name you can redirect traffic to that address to your Comcast page.
>>> mm... good point... I vaguely wondered about this when I
>>> registered a personal website... I have webspace coming out of my
>>> ears via my broadband isp, via compliant friends who never need
>>> their free allotment, etc. And yet I coughed up for hosting just
>>> for it with a company (different to my isp). True, not much, 40
>>> miserable downunder buckeroos. I use the free webspace elsewhere
>>> to supplement the miserable 10MB that comes for the 40 to make
>>> for respectable elbow room but... it seems that this scurrilous
>>> cheapskate cadging strategy of mine is not quite as low as I can
>>> get eh? Might have to look into it. What do you do, ask the
>>> registrar of the domain to point it to where I want? Perhaps the
>>> downside - I think as I type, sorry - is the domain url changes
>>> in the browser url field of the website user? mm... might be
>>> worth the 40 after all to avoid this...
>>>
>> Your domain company should have a "control panel" or some such online
>> tool for you to manage your domain. It is there that you can setup
>> email addresses, sub-domains (see links below), and redirection.
>>
>> My ISP (Comcast) subscription gives me 7 email addresses each of which
>> has 25 Mb of Web page storage space. My main domain name (edmullen.net)
>> simply redirects to one or more of my Comcast Web spaces. You can set
>> up the redirection as either URL Redirect (where the actual URL of the
>> final destination is shown to the user) or URL Frame (where only the
>> domain name is shown, not the actual URL, path or page.
>>
>
> OK, but it is right that I would then lose the advantage of the
> domain url staying as is in the browser url text field, yes?
Yeah. With domain Frame Redirect you don't get any final destination
info so the user can't bookmark a page: all that appears and is saved
is "mydomain.com" or some such, no matter what page the user lands on.
With URL Redirects (like I use) the user "sees" the actual page on the
real site and can bookmark it etc. The only strange thing about this is
that when a user clicks on a link in (for instance) an email I send that
says:
http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz.html
The actually land on:
http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mozilla/moz.html
A possible source of some confusion if people are paying attention to
their location bars. On the other hand, if you opt for URL Frame
Redirect, when they click on a link like:
http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz.html
their location bar might simply say:
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
no matter what page they landed on. And their browser would not
correctly bookmark the page.
Hey, (huge sigh), life is not perfect.
--
Ed Mullen
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http://mozilla.edmullen.net
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Why is it that the guy who comes up behind you while you're waiting for
an elevator presses the already lit button as though he has some magical
powers that you don't?
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