Redirecting a hosted domain name

C

Caagh

Hi there, hope somebody can help. My ISP has fp enabled, and so I have a web
page which I have published and I can access it via
http://fp.MYUSERNAME.MYISP.com.

The problem is I have a domain name, hosted by my ISP, and I want to forward
hits to my domain to my fp website. My ISP's help pages aren't very helpful
and I can't get their instructions to work.


Using a FTP client, I have uploaded a file called index.html and a file
called anchor.html (I have copied them below) to my webspace but when I
access my domain name http://www.MYDOMAIN.com all I get is a blank page. If
I view source I can see the index.html code, but the redirect isn't working.

Could anybody give me a link to generic instructions for this kind of
situation, as I am sure that other people know what to do.

Many thanks
Caagh

Index.html:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome to MYDOMAIN.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="0,""border=0 bordercolor=white>
<FRAMESET SRC="anchor.html" NAME="anchor" scrolling=no>
<FRAMESET SRC="http://fp.MYUSERNAME.MYISP.com" Name="Main"></FRAMESET>

<!..This page handles visitors who can't view frames..>
<NOFRAMES>
<CENTER>
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This website requires that
your browser supports frames</font><h3>
</H3></font></h3>
</CENTER>
<P><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The browser you are using is
either unable to handles frames, or frames have been disabled. To view this
site please use a browser that supports frames. Alternatively you can view
the contents of this site
<a href=fp.MYUSERNAME.MYISP.com">here</a></font>
</NOFRAMES>
</HTML>

anchor.html:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<!-- anchor frame -->
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
 
R

Ronx

Should be:

<html>

<head>
<title>Welcome to MYDOMAIN.com</title>
</head>

<frameset rows="*">
<frame src="http://fp.MYUSERNAME.MYISP.com" name="Main">
<!..This page handles visitors who can't view frames..>
<noframes>
<body>

<center>
<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This website requires
that your browser supports frames</font></h3>
</center>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The browser you are using
is either unable to handles frames, or frames have been disabled. To
view this site please use a browser that supports frames. Alternatively
you can view the contents of this site <a
href="http://fp.MYUSERNAME.MYISP.com/">here</a></font></p>

</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>

</html>
 
S

SingaporeWebDesign

Hello,

1) If your server is hosted in a Unix environment, htaccess is better as it
does not require any client-side scripting and search engine can follow as
well
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

2) Otherwise, you can use the meta refresh tag in your index.html (some
people disable this for some reason)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

3) Add a JavaScript redirect as well in your index.html (But will not work
for search engines)
http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptredirect.php

You can use (2) and (3) together.

--
Singapore Website Design
http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/
Singapore Web Hosting
http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html
Windows XP FAQ
 
C

Caagh

Really appreciate your help Singapore! Ronix's amendments to my html code
worked and so I'm gonna stick with that, but I need to understand this stuff
so I'm gonna read all the links you suggest.
Thanks!
Caagh
 

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