How do you mask URL please?

[gobear]

Hi there

I am quite a new noobie at this

Basically, I use Godaddy for domains and Hosgator for host.

I have 3 domains

The primary one say is....http://www.internet-match.com so therefore, I would use to open the hostgator as http://www.internet-match.com/cpanel sicne it is my primary domain right?

Alright, now, I have the other 2 domains I just purchased say...
1) http://www.comfortlivingstyle.com
2) http://www.sportsuperfans.com

All of the 3 domains have not been built for html as they are used for re-direct URL.

Say...I found a site that is http://www.livinghouse.com/youreferalusername
AND
http://www.findcars.com/youreferalusername

I want to MASK it totally.....i.e.

From http://www.livinghouse.com/youreferalusername---------->
http://www.comfortlivingstyle.com

And the same for 2)

How do I actually do that? I mean I do not want redirect URL that simple which I know how to do that under Hostgator cpanel, what I mean is...when they log or type on the website i.e. http://www.comfortlivingstyle.com, no matter what, where and how they click within the site, it still remains as: http://www.comfortlivingstyle.com?

I mean I went to Godaddy account and clicked on Forwarding

That's where I get confused becasue I dunno what URL I put under "enabling fowarding" in the Forwarding and what other info I put on the Masking tab after I enabled it

If anyone could let me know what I should do would be very much appreciated please?

Thanks

[mxyzplk]

do you mean like my signature? masking and redirecting URL?

[Red_Virus]

are you looking to cloak your affiliate links from your new bought domain ?

[gobear]

Hm....to make it simple, let me put it this way...

Say I got a site called http://ebay.com (obviously is not mine, lol) and I want to mask or cloak it totally so that no matter what you click on, it will go as http://www.ebay.com on the URL and nothing else, no long URL of ebays of a specific link you click on

I hope it helps better in simplifying my question?

Thanks

[Scar]

The forwarding URL is the URL of the actual site they are going to (http://www.livinghouse.com/youreferalusername, in your example). For masking, you put what site you want to appear in the navigation bar. It can call be done within GoDaddy's domain manager.

[mxyzplk]

aaaaaaahhh I get it... what about like http://www.reviewme.com and http://www.mxyzplk.com/go/reviewme.php
it will have the same result. I use PHP redirection.

[rena]

aaaaaaahhh I get it... what about like http://www.reviewme.com and http://www.mxyzplk.com/go/reviewme.php
it will have the same result. I use PHP redirection.

Yh redirection done is correct but the benefits m doubted

[mxyzplk]

Yh redirection done is correct but the benefits m doubted

what kind of benefit? like securing the ref link?

[Tropp]

Easy redirect using .htaccess

Create a file named .htaccess in the public_html directory since its a cPanel server

Insert in the file the following text (obviously replace the domains with yours)


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Chancey]

Just use the plugin from Wordpress WP Affiliate.

[coba]

Create file index.php or index.html and put in any host folder you like to redirect :-
<frameset> <frame src="http://redirectdomain.com/page.html"> </frameset>

or <frame src="http://redirectdomain.com/">