How do I only show domain name in a browsers adress field ?

Drubbel · #1 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 04:21 AM

Just like the title says:

Many websites only display www.sitename.com in the adressfield of a browser no matter which webpage you are on at that site.

Is there any script or code snippet that does this ?
I would want a PHP script for that but any code/script of any type is appriciated !

Thanks !

Bonzo · #2 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 11:56 AM

I want my site to only display www.sitename.com as well

You coud use php includes which will do it but there can be problems that way.

Anthony

cigcode · #3 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 12:08 PM

You can use url rewrite for this, but how does your site show its url?

MrKafaaski · #4 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 12:16 PM

You can use a frame in the index-file:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>You title</title>
</head>
<body>
<frame src="index2.php">
<noframes>
Your browser does not support frames, click here: <a href="index2.php">index2.php</a>
</noframes>
</body>
</html>

infinitylimit · #5 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 12:48 PM

You could use a query string to do everything hence you would have www.sitename.com/?page=blah

that isn't to hard to do.

jasong · #6 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 03:29 PM

One thing you can do is kind of like what MrKafaaski said.
Many domain registrars (godaddy in know) offer URL masking, where it masks the url and keeps it at the domian name.
In reality all it does is add a frame, but this way it does it automaticlly.

infinitylimit · #7 (**permalink**) 07-27-04, 08:45 PM

I would probably advise against doing a complete change to only www.yourname.com type of url. Just because then no one will be able to address links two your site accurately and you will generate more 404 errors then you will know how to handle. I would say go with the www.yourname.com?page=blah if anything because then people can at least get to the page.

Even though frames will mask the ip, you will be using frames. Frames don't print well and are generally hard for people to understand how to print.

I do think you can do the apache rewrite but I'm not sure how. Maybe you can find a site the doesn' use frames or query string and still has that and ask how they do it.

You also should take in account that webcrawlers might get lost, I'm not sure how smart they are concerning this and you might get a low page rank.