Sub Domains question??

[Guppy]

Hi all,

I would like to know if it is possible to use a Sub Domain in the following way....

Example:
Lets say i own HulkMovie.com and my site contains a Store and Forum,

The URL for my Store page might read: hulkmovie.com/store and
my Forum page might read hulkmovie.com/forum.

If it possible to use, say... hulkstore.com and have it pointed to the store page in my site and NOT the home page??

Your views would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jon

 

[Crusader]

yes it is, its called a pointer domain

if you're using cpanel i believe you go to park domains and it asks you where you want to park the domain on, just pick store if thats the directory its in.

 

[Webtwink]

or you can use your registrars domain forwarding service

 

[Guppy]

Thanks for all your input, i'll do a search under "pointer domains" to find out more.

Thanks again,
Jon

 

[RJ]

Or if your registrar offers domain parking, you can park hulkstore.com on top of hulkmovie.com and use PHP or CGI code on your index page to redirect visitors to the hulkstore.com domain to hulkmovie.com/store

Here's a PHP example

<?
$uri = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
if (strstr($uri,"www.hulkstore.com")) {
header("Location: http://www.hulkmovie.com/store/"); 
}
?>

 

[Kodeking]

That is a bit of code RJ doesn't normaly give out. I like that little trick. Works good for page rank

 

[kohashi]

Changing the header location is a common practice. It isn't an industry secret as you make it out to be.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/11541.htm

 

[dnslife]

My understanding of naming conventions when refering to subdomains is this.

Subdomain: http://me.isp.com

Child Directory: http://www.isp.com/me

I wasn't too clear on the question.

 

[Wilfredo]

Its easy my friend :D