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What is URL forwarding? |
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How long does it take
for URL forwarding to be activated? |
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What is the URL Redirect
option located in the URL Forwarding section? |
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What is the URL Frames
option located in the URL Forwarding section? |
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How do I set up my
URL forwarding? |
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Does Stargate place
banner ads or pop-ups on URL forwarding? |
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What is masking and
cloaking? |
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Can I use URL forwarding
if the DNS are not Stargate's? |
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How do I set up URL
Forwarding if I am on a hosting plan? |
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What is URL
forwarding? |
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URL forwarding allows you to point your domain name
to any URL, such as a free hosting service or another domain name that
you have hosted somewhere. |
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How long does
it take for URL forwarding to be activated? |
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Normal activation time is 24-72 hours. |
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What is the
URL Redirect option located in the URL Forwarding section? |
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The URL Redirect option lets you take full advantage
of your web page's Meta Tag information. When you use the URL Redirect
option you will lose the masking and cloaking feature of URL Forwarding.
In addition when you use the URL Redirect option your source code will
be able to be viewed. |
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What is the
URL Frames option located in the URL Forwarding section? |
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The URL Frames option lets you take full advantage
of the masking and cloaking feature. When you use the URL Frames option
you will lose your web page's Meta Tag information. In addition when
you use the URL Frames option your source code will not be able to
be viewed. |
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How do I set
up my URL forwarding? |
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You will need to login to your account control panel.
Once logged in select the domain name that you wish to make a change
to from the pull down list. Click the Go button. Click on the tab labeled
URL Forwarding. Now look for the section labeled URL Forwarding. Enter
in the web address that you want to forward your domain name to. Then
select URL Frame from the pull down list if you wish to use the cloaking
and masking feature, or select URL Redirect if you wish to use Meta
Tags (you will loose the cloaking & masking with this option). Click
the Forward URL button; this will put the request in for your FREE
URL Forwarding to be activated. |
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Does Stargate
place banner ads or pop-ups on URL forwarding? |
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No, Stargate does not use banner ads or pop-ups. |
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What is masking
and cloaking? |
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Masking/cloaking allows the URL forwarding to be
completely transparent. When you type your newly registered domain
into the address bar of your browser, it looks like www.yourdomain.com
rather than www.freewebhost/membername/memberdirectory. |
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Can I use URL
forwarding if the DNS are not Stargate's? |
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No. If you wish to use our Free URL forwarding,
the domain name servers(DNS) must point to Stargate DNS. |
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How do I set
up URL Forwarding if I am on a hosting plan? |
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You can set up URL Forwarding manually by adding
a few files that will redirect your site to a specified URL. You will
first need to download the following zip file at http://www.stargate.com/us/url.zip and
extract it. Then you will need to edit the URLforward.txt file to where
you want the forwarding to point. Finally you can upload the needed
files to the wwwroot folder in your web space. From there, your URL
Forwarding will work instantly. |
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