Website host and names

[CrONoS]

I have a question for you Poly people:

I rent a shared hosting and I have reserved two domain names.

Is this possible to point the two domain names on two different location on my shared hosting.

Example:
I point one of my domain name ex:www.mydomain.com to the IP adress of my host server.

And with my second name ex:www.mysecond.com, I would redirect all the people to a location; that would be

https://www.mydomain.com/cronos_qc.

I know this is possible, but now, I want to know if it's possible to redirect it in a way that Firefox or IExplorer would think you're really on:
www.mysecond.com and not on: www.mydomain.com/cronos_qc

So in the location bar when you type: www.mysecond.com, it will continue to show: www.mysecond.com and if you enter a sub-folder like "poly" it will show www.mysecond.com/poly/ and not: www.mydomain.com/cronos_qc/poly


I wish this is clear.

[MMC]

It can easily be done with a simple .htaccess file.

Assuming you are using Apache, copy the following into a blank text file and save it as '.htaccess' (without the '' and with nothing before the .):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^$    index.php    [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)/$                  http://www.mydomain.com/whatever/$1/index.php        [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)\.(html|htm)$       http://www.mydomain.com/whatever/$1.php              [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)$                   http://www.mydomain.com/whatever/$1.php              [L]

The first line activates everything...
The next line sets the default page to 'index.php'.
The third, fourth, and fifth lines use the '$1' wildcard. So www.second.com/$1 really translates to www.mydomain.com/whatever/$1.
The third line looks for a folder which matches '$1'.
The fourth line makes calls to html files point to the php equivalents. Useful for pretending you have files called '.cronos_qc' which are really '.php' files.
The last line just gives you the file you want if you type the address in exactly (whilst still hiding the directory).

Just put the file you've just made (and edited hopefully ) into the directory that www.second.com points to.

[CrONoS]

Gracias Mister!!

[MMC]

No probs... I just pulled that from my own site and changed the names to protect... well, me.

[Urban Ranger]

He still needs to modify apache configurations to allow for .htaccess files.

[CrONoS]

@UR

I just made a test, created .htaccess on my root and I edited the files:

And it's working... so the server is accepting the files. In the Contract Agreement, I have the right to use this file!

But I didn't try MMC script now, I wait to order my second domain names tomorrow evening!

[CrONoS]

just to make sure MMC;
line 4, i dont need it at all, since i will be using only .html files!?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
And it's working... so the server is accepting the files. In the Contract Agreement, I have the right to use this file!

Okay, so the hosting company has already made apache to accept .htaccess files in individual directories.

Good thing

[MMC]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
just to make sure MMC;
line 4, i dont need it at all, since i will be using only .html files!?

You don't need it if you don't want it. Although you could make it point .htm files to the .html versions if you wanted.

[MMC]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger Okay, so the hosting company has already made apache to accept .htaccess files in individual directories.

Good thing

That's pretty standard unless you have a paranoid host.