Domain names

2009-02-13 17:09:57

#1

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

Okay, so I've gotten my website front page basically set up, and I'm working with the forums right now. Blog and About will come later.

I want to purchase a domain, but I want to make it so that I can have specific URLs. For example: visit N-Gen Games. This is what I DON'T want. If you click any link there, the URL remains http://n-gengames.com. (That's a website for a school thing, in case you're wondering)

I want it so that even though the website is hosted on my computer, I can have something like the forums have a URL address of http://www.dribear.net/forums. Bonus points if I'm able to link to certain posts like http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pi … #p2510520.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-13 17:12:52

#2

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

The N-Gen games one is called a masked URL. It is gay indeed.

What you want is just a normal domain. All you gotta do is point it to your IP and it should work. If you have a dynamic IP you'll need to use DynDNS.

2009-02-13 17:25:12

#3

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6461|Winland

Most free services are just like that

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-02-13 17:51:52

#4

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Most free services are just like that

He said he has a .net domain, which isn't free.

Also, haffey, the ?pid=2340234 thing is a PHP thing, not a domain thing. If FluxBB is setup the same way as PunBB (to use GET variables in such a fashion) then it will be that way.

2009-02-13 18:03:29

#5

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

okay cool. i do have a dynamic IP. is DynDNS like no-ip.com? because i'm registered on there, but i'm not exactly sure what to do.

and how would i go about changing the N-Gen one? we're hosting on some FTP server provided to us by the competition people, but the domain was bought from godaddy.com.

also, lol:

Optimum Online agreement wrote:
Users may not run any type of server on the system. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums; Users may not register or point a domain, sub-domain, or hostname to any Optimum Online IP address. Moreover, Users may not have traffic redirected to The Service; Users may not resell, share, or otherwise distribute the Service or any portion thereof to any third party without the written consent of Cablevision. For example, Subscriber may not provide Internet access to others through a dial up connection, wireless access or host shell accounts over the Internet, provide e-mail or news service, or send a news feed. Users may not copy, distribute or sublicense any software provided by Cablevision, except that Subscriber may make one copy of each software program for back up or archival purposes only;

Last edited by haffeysucks (2009-02-13 18:18:46)

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-13 18:46:47

#6

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5981|Vancouver, BC, Canada

haffeysucks wrote:
okay cool. i do have a dynamic IP. is DynDNS like no-ip.com? because i'm registered on there, but i'm not exactly sure what to do.

and how would i go about changing the N-Gen one? we're hosting on some FTP server provided to us by the competition people, but the domain was bought from godaddy.com.

also, lol:

Optimum Online agreement wrote:
Users may not run any type of server on the system. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCKS, SQUID, DNS or any multi-user forums; Users may not register or point a domain, sub-domain, or hostname to any Optimum Online IP address. Moreover, Users may not have traffic redirected to The Service; Users may not resell, share, or otherwise distribute the Service or any portion thereof to any third party without the written consent of Cablevision. For example, Subscriber may not provide Internet access to others through a dial up connection, wireless access or host shell accounts over the Internet, provide e-mail or news service, or send a news feed. Users may not copy, distribute or sublicense any software provided by Cablevision, except that Subscriber may make one copy of each software program for back up or archival purposes only;

To change it, you'd need to log into the GoDaddy control panel, find an option called Masking or Cloning, or something like that, and turn it off.

I Didn't buy my domain off Godaddy so I'm not sure.

Msn pl0x.

2009-02-14 15:16:07

#7

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

turning off masking makes it so that it goes straight to http://cregion9.skills21.org/index.html and displays it as that. anyway i don't really care about that website.

what i'm more concerned with is my own. my ISP (Optimum Online) blocks port 80, so right now I'm using a port 80 redirect via No-IP.com. instead of port 80, i'm using port 62345. i have that forwarded on both of my routers. this is the no IP link as of right now: http://haffeysucks.no-ip.org

now, will what crazed said work even with a port 80 redirect?

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 15:18:08

#8

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6891|UK

Just purchase some basic hosting, tbh.

2009-02-14 15:19:45

#9

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

liquidat0r wrote:
Just purchase some basic hosting, tbh.

then i went through everything for nothing. cost is not an issue via jamiet with 2IP, but then i'd have done all this work for absolutely nothing.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 15:22:21

#10

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6757|N. Ireland

Or use the free byethost package. Also, I'm going to use the example haffey.com here:

index.html = www.haffey.com
contact.html = www.haffey.com/contact.html
random.html = www.haffey.com/random.html
*folder called cheese* wow.html = www.haffey.com/cheese/wow.html

Is that what you mean?

2009-02-14 15:23:43

#11

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

kylef wrote:
Or use the free byethost package. Also, I'm going to use the example haffey.com here:

index.html = www.haffey.com
contact.html = www.haffey.com/contact.html
random.html = www.haffey.com/random.html
*folder called cheese* wow.html = www.haffey.com/cheese/wow.html

Is that what you mean?

yeah that's what i mean. but if i host there then i did all this work for nothing.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 15:26:24

#12

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6757|N. Ireland

haffeysucks wrote:
yeah that's what i mean. but if i host there then i did all this work for nothing.

I'd still just do it anyway - reliability, uptime etc. And that sort of thing is standard - you don't need to do anything - it will be like that wherever you upload it. Any folder creates a new directory, and every file is a web page, essentially.

2009-02-14 15:30:02

#13

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

kylef wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
yeah that's what i mean. but if i host there then i did all this work for nothing.
I'd still just do it anyway - reliability, uptime etc. And that sort of thing is standard - you don't need to do anything - it will be like that wherever you upload it. Any folder creates a new directory, and every file is a web page, essentially.

yeah i get that. argh - i hate feeling as if i'm working for nothing though. i'd love to see this work out more than anything.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 15:46:59

#14

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

Code:

Listen 80

ServerName localhost:80

Change the 80 here to something that isn't blocked by your host.

EDIT: This is Apache's httpd.conf by the way.

Last edited by CrazeD (2009-02-14 15:47:22)

2009-02-14 16:37:51

#15

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

CrazeD wrote:
Code:
Listen 80

ServerName localhost:80
Change the 80 here to something that isn't blocked by your host.

EDIT: This is Apache's httpd.conf by the way.

i did that. it's at :62345. the only thing is that i don't want the domain name to me something like http://www.dribear.net:62345 because a) most of my friends probably can't remember that, and b) it looks unprofessional (in case i want to expand the website into something else)

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 16:41:39

#16

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

haffeysucks wrote:
CrazeD wrote:
Code:
Listen 80

ServerName localhost:80
Change the 80 here to something that isn't blocked by your host.

EDIT: This is Apache's httpd.conf by the way.
i did that. it's at :62345. the only thing is that i don't want the domain name to me something like http://www.dribear.net:62345 because a) most of my friends probably can't remember that, and b) it looks unprofessional (in case i want to expand the website into something else)

You don't have to do it that way.

Your domain knows where to go only by DNS, and the DNS only points to an IP. It doesn't deal with ports.

It doesn't default to port 80, it only goes to what it is told to go to by routers and Apache.

2009-02-14 16:43:03

#17

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

CrazeD wrote:
You don't have to do it that way.

Your domain knows where to go only by DNS, and the DNS only points to an IP. It doesn't deal with ports.

It doesn't default to port 80, it only goes to what it is told to go to by routers and Apache.

wait, so what are you saying?

<---- at anything related to websites

Last edited by haffeysucks (2009-02-14 16:43:22)

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 16:47:27

#18

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5981|Vancouver, BC, Canada

haffeysucks wrote:
CrazeD wrote:
You don't have to do it that way.

Your domain knows where to go only by DNS, and the DNS only points to an IP. It doesn't deal with ports.

It doesn't default to port 80, it only goes to what it is told to go to by routers and Apache.
wait, so what are you saying?

<---- at anything related to websites

He's saying you're screwed

But yeah, the ww2 redirect we talked about yesterday would be the best solution.

(In tehe DNS settings, you set ww2.bribear.com to be the IP, then you do a FORWARD from www.dribear.com to WW2.dribear.com:<port> )

It's not perfect, but I think that's as good as you'll get, unless you wanna cloak, but then you have the lack of url structure problem.

2009-02-14 16:52:10

#19

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

I'm saying that if your Apache is setup properly, you won't have an issue.

Your domain has nothing to do with ports, it simply goes to an IP.

You need to tell your router to send port 80 requests to a different port.

I added you to Xfire btw (crazed90), might be easier to help you

2009-02-14 17:53:54

#20

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5981|Vancouver, BC, Canada

CrazeD wrote:
I'm saying that if your Apache is setup properly, you won't have an issue.

Your domain has nothing to do with ports, it simply goes to an IP.

You need to tell your router to send port 80 requests to a different port.

I added you to Xfire btw (crazed90), might be easier to help you

No, but his ISP blocks port 80 requests TO his router, so you have to reroute the site to some different port so the requests actually get to the server in the first place.

2009-02-14 18:58:53

#21

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

TheDonkey wrote:
CrazeD wrote:
I'm saying that if your Apache is setup properly, you won't have an issue.

Your domain has nothing to do with ports, it simply goes to an IP.

You need to tell your router to send port 80 requests to a different port.

I added you to Xfire btw (crazed90), might be easier to help you
No, but his ISP blocks port 80 requests TO his router, so you have to reroute the site to some different port so the requests actually get to the server in the first place.

Yeah, I was just going by what I had found on Google.

I've never had to change that shit myself, cause my ISP doesn't block port 80.

2009-02-14 20:05:02

#22

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

Denis, I'll hit you up on MSN tomorrow to try and get that ww2 thing working.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-14 20:18:24

#23

Harmor: Error_Name_Not_Found; +605|6812|San Diego, CA, USA

kylef wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
yeah that's what i mean. but if i host there then i did all this work for nothing.
I'd still just do it anyway - reliability, uptime etc. And that sort of thing is standard - you don't need to do anything - it will be like that wherever you upload it. Any folder creates a new directory, and every file is a web page, essentially.

kylef is 100% correct. At my company we went to a hosted solution...costs a little more but they deal with the hardware you basically have 99.9998% up-time.

1&1 and GoDaddy are all you really need for hosting/domain name service. I recommend keeping them separate just-in-case something happens with either, but that's just me.

2009-02-14 21:25:13

#24

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

GoDaddy has good domain prices, but their hosting sucks.

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