Hosting, forwarding, FTPs etc

[Joe.Morgan]

OK i've never really dug that deep into domains and hosting. In the past ive just bought a domain with webspace, had the one ftp and mailbox control panel etc and just uploaded the website via that ftp and wham bam hey there you go!

I have now purchased 3gb of space from dreamhost so i can start hosting clients sites on my space.. but I am a little unsure on how all the forwarding, ftp, email etc works.

For example i have a client for arguments sake that i've done a website for and they have the domain www.rara.com but no webspace or emails.


i will have the domain names blue22 and bluetwentytwo with dreamhosts but i obviously dont want www.rara.com just to redirect to ww.blue22.co.uk/rara/index.html so how do i go about hosting the "rara" website and redirectin rara.com (thats with uk2.net for example) to my webspace so it reads www.rara.com/index.html or /shop.html etc etc?

also..

How does the whole email thing work aswell? say if they want 2 mailboxes for joe @ and jill@ rara.com how would i setup mailboxes for that domain if i dont have the domain?

and last but not least the FTP setup - setting up FTP accounts for different clients

as you can probably imagine i am a tad confused so any help or articles would be a great help

merci!

[James Jones]

I assumed you just had 1 large account that you split between the accounts you wanted to host like a reseller account then you pointed the DNS to the domain name you wanted it to be viewed under. It's not really forwarding you just have to point the entry url to the domain space it is hosted on.

[Joe.Morgan]

the only times i have done forwarding is on cases where i forwarded
(for example) www.rara.com to www.blue22.co.uk/rara but within a window if that makes sense? so whereever you went on the site it would stay www.rara.com?

[Starscream]

I think i understand what you mean...
have a look into iFrames.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

[Keely Hope]

Content that is in an iframe is noT indexed as part of the url by the search engines -- because the iframe content is at another url.

Iframes would hinder your site

[Joe.Morgan]

nooo not iframes, its kinda hard to explain what i mean when i really dont kno what im on about? even that doesn't make sense

[Kelly Creative]

I think what James was saying is right, you have a large web space split up between various clients and you need to point their url's towards

[Joe.Morgan]

kinda but i dont want the client websites to sit in an iframe i want them to sit free otherwise you will get no SEO?

[29FIVE Designs]

You would have to talk to your hosting provider, but I don't think it is possible to do what you want in a practical manner. You could forward www.rara.com to www.blue22.co.uk/rara, but then when the client went to that www.rara.com it would forward to www.blue22.co.uk/rara and www.blue22.co.uk/rara would be in the address bar instead of www.rara.com. To fix this you could apply masking to the domain name so it would show as www.rara.com, but then no matter what page you went to, the address bar would always say www.rara.com instead of www.rara.com/aboutus.html (for example). And the title bar would always have the same masked title. Lastly, search engines wouldn't pick up the site as it's own because it is a sub site or entity of www.blue22.co.uk.

Now that I've written a novel... I've probably just discouraged you also...

[flashwiz]

Im with Dreamhost Joe, and to be honest its as simple as adding another domain and creating a user account for it.... if your having any problems let me know, be happy to help..

This is hosted in the same way www.rupertheath.co.uk