Domain masking URL

inteldigital

• December 15, 2018 07:55

Hi, Is there a way I can addon a domain name, and redirect it using masking. I'm trying to achieve the following: exampledomain.com has a website on it and isn't hosted locally. I add into my cPanel account, exampledomain2.com and when I click to exampledomain2.com I want to see exampledomain.com website, but the URL bar to say exampledomain2.com. How do I achieve this. I know there was a way previously, but can't see it anymore.

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  GOT

  • December 15, 2018 13:07

  You can add it as an domain alias and it will behave the way you want, assuming you do not use any rewrites in your code or htaccess that push it back to the primary domain.

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  Vinayak

  • December 15, 2018 21:17

  Use .htaccess file to do that, with following code RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^exampledomain\.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.exampledomain\.com$ RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.exampledomain2.com/$1 [R=301,L]
  

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 17, 2018 20:43

  Hello @inteldigital, An Alias is best suited for the scenario you described. You can read more about aliases, including a chart noting the differences between aliases and addon domains, at: Aliases - Version 76 Documentation - cPanel Documentation Thank you.

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  ADG

  • April 30, 2021 04:21

  how would I do this to point to a subdomain? It works in essence but didn't load the HTML page sitting in the subdomain RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub.mydomain\.com.au$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.sub.mydomain\.com.au$ RewriteRule ^/?(.*)

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 03, 2021 19:57

  @ADG - I would expect this to work well no matter what type of domain you are redirecting to or from. Can you let me know exactly what "in essence" means? Is this partially working for you?

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  ADG

  • May 06, 2021 01:36

  @ADG - I would expect this to work well no matter what type of domain you are redirecting to or from. Can you let me know exactly what "in essence" means? Is this partially working for you?

  
  thx for your reply. I have it working now.

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