Yahoo Domains

[Theros]

Hey all! I have yahoo domains for http://www.thedragonlives.com, but how do I configure the domain so that when i go to www.thedragonlives.com/about it goes there instead of always going to the index page... Is there some sort of masking turned on? How do I turn it off?

[fattony]

Do you have the About folder created, because that is what /anything means, you need a index.html in the about folder to get that to show up how you want it?

[SlowRoasted]

If you have an admin panel, like CPanel for instance, you can forward a domain to a certain directory. Sometimes you may have to pay your hosting provider to attach extra domains though.

[Theros]

Well, i understand the whole folder heiriechy thing, but if for instance, if I typed in http://www.thedragonlives.com/about.html it wouldnt take me to that file... It just takes me to the index? Are you saying I need to make a folder for each sub directory?

[SlowRoasted]

Ah, I misunderstood your question. If you want a subdirectory then yes you have to make folder and call it about. Then maybe you would have a file in it call self.html and you would reference it like http://www.thedragonlives.com/about/self.html

[Theros]

Thing is... Even if I do that, and I type in http://www.thedragonlives.com/about/self.html
It still only takes me to the index page.... Not to any of the other files I have on my server... Is it just Yahoo is set up like that? Is there any setting I can change (A Name, CName, etc?) to make this work?

[simplistik]

I don't get what you're saying... it's changing pages for me... are you talkin about if I click about instead of showing about.html is just shows the domain? Cause if that's the case it's because of your frameset.

[Seb Hughes]

The domain is masking an ip. If anythign you would have to rig up soem php or somthing. Or if you ahve a cpanl or simlar make it in that

[Theros]

Wait? So, if you go to http://www.thedragonlives.com/about.html? The About page loads and not the index page? Becuase for me I can't access the files direclty by doing that.... Everyone has to go through the index page which I don't want... becuase I would want to like to other stuff through the same domain and not have to use my ip address...

[Theros]

Nobody understands the problem? I don't know another way to explain it... heh. maybe its becuase of Yahoo domains. Whats a good domain service than?

[Seb Hughes]

your domains is only a mask, to get to about its http://70.177.163.39:8080/about.html

[Theros]

I know, but isn't that the point of a domain to mask the IP address? hmmm.. I think I see the problem is that the masking is also masking the real address of it, IE IP address. So that's why you can only access the index page when you type in thedragonlives.com the first time

[hybrid101]

are you refreshing the page?
just curious

[ya3]

Hmm... nope, it just looks like there's some ugly masking going on.

Perhaps you could try creating a PHP file called index.php which detects the domain and redirects accordingly... I'm not 100% sure of this, but you could somehow have it redirect to about.html if the URL says "http://www.domain.com/about"

I have 3 domains mirrored on one hosting account, and this is how I separate them.

I could be wrong...

[Seb Hughes]

Maybe Set up a DNS?