Apologies if this has been beaten to death, but all I've been able to find are overly technical articles.
My question is simple:
A friend at the university wants to start a website. He wants to use a university domain name (http://university.com/my-awesome-website). The problem is that I want to build it with WordPress, but the university is still using PHP4, so WP isn't possible!!
Can I setup a .htaccess file or similar so that when someone goes to http://university.com/my-awesome-website, the urls look right, but the pages are actually coming from WordPress on a different server?
Is this what they call 'domain masking' or is it a '301' redirect?
Help appreciated!
You could use an IFrame to load the wordpress site in and make it look like it's being served up on the same site.
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So I am upgrading an existing website(different CMS) to the Joomla 3.4.1 CMS, and I'm running into the following problem.
Because it's a replacement for an old website, I need to make 301 redirects to make sure no links appear broken.
The old website used url's like '/10/Terms_of_use.html', basically url's which start with numbers. This results in the situation where Joomla looks for an article with the corresponding article number instead of acting according to the redirect set in the redirect manager.
So how do I prioritize the redirects over the interpretation of the article id's? Thanks in advance.
Aha! I found a way to disable the article interpretation from the Joomla routing. It's described on http://developernote.com/2012/05/how-to-remove-id-from-url-in-joomla-2-5.
Now this solution is commonly described online on several websites, most of which leave out the last bit. This one offers the full solution though. Anyways, thanks internet.
I am just wondering how can I do this with my domain.
I have a support page on my website and access it like:
www.mydomainname.com/support
but I want to do it like
support.mydomainname.com
It might be a simple question with a very simple answer but I am having trouble and confusion regarding this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
There are a myriad of ways to do this, the simplest being a simple 302 redirect on the page. Depending on your web server setup, you could also setup a .htaccess file to implement the redirect.
I want to display different website for my customers outside US, how this can be achieved without using sub-folder.
First of all you did not explain your scenario.I suggest you explain to get better answers.
Anyways, If internationalization is what you want then you can rely on any CMS like Wordpress, Joomla etc and all of your content will be saved in Database. This way you will not have any subfolders and still a site for different countries. There is more to it in detail but basically that's the idea.
Obviously the above scenario applies if you are using a CMS.
If your website is in Joomla. I think there is a plugin.module which separates page regionally. Anyway, whats the URL of the website.
How can I sniff out desktop users and send them to regular (non-mobile) site when they find the mobile site listed in google?
Thank you for any insight!
You can check the HTTP-headers for the type of browser the user is using and redirect to the correct site. There is also a nifty framework for it; http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/
Dave,
There's a really interesting article about it on Google Central. You should check it out.
While I'm aware that it doesn't answer your question, it's totally worth reading. As I'm on this very same quest, I'd appreciate if you could share with us whatever way out of this predicament you get to find.
By the way, can you post your website URL here for the rest of us to see? :-)
You could use www.handsetdetection.com in reverse to redirect people from your mobile site back to your standard site.
Say If I keep more number of web links of other sites on my web site then is it going to help my website in any way?
No it will help the other sites as you will be basically providing backlinks to theirs. Unless they have links going back to your site then you won't see any benefit at your end.
Maybe you are not quite clear about in-bound link and out-bound link.
What you are talking about now is out-bound link, which, according Google's PR, is a vote to other site(The linked site), not yours.
What you need, though, is in-bound link. In plain English, links of your sites on other sites.
Be warned, only putting our links on other sites that share the same themes can be counted as valid links. On top of it, do not tempted into Black Hat SEO!