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[krikri]

I have a site, say www.hereitis.com. There are three pages in the web called here, there and itis.The home page is here. So when people type my web address www.hereitis.com, they are sent to that page.

Now I have registered another domain name called thereits.com. When people type www.thereitis.com, I want a page within hereitis com to open.

In effect, I want both websites to be hosted under one name.

Can someone put my question into technical perspective and answer whether it is possible to have two index pages in a directory to serve two domain names? If not how can two domain names point to index files in one directory.

[Compworld]

Sure,

Use the parked domains feature. It would probably be in your admin control panel. This would allow you to have www.abcdef.com and www.abcdef.net point to the same files and directories on your server.

- CompWorld

[operafan]

or u can put a simple redirect script to that particular url

[Shannon Moore]

Another term for it would be "domain pointers". In English, it's having other domains you own pointed (generally) to a specific subdirectory of your web hosting account and treated as a separate site.

It's fairly common on shared servers. I don't know about dedicated servers.

[Shannon Moore]

It's not clear from my initial post, but domain pointers can also point to the same folder as a primary domain. In that case, you'd want to use some scripting or (if on an Apache server) .htaccess rules to direct browsers to the correct index page for the requested domain.

[krikri]

Thank you very much for your responses. I know understand. I didnt know about domain pointers. Now I can implement my site.

But please what is shared servers and dedicated servers. What one is good for which website.

Thank you.

[Shannon Moore]

Shared hosting (or "shared servers") are typically used by smaller sites -- personal homepages, small businesses and non-profit sites.

Dedicated hosting (or "dedicated servers") are typically used by sites that need more control over their server (such as specific hardware or software requirements) and an overall more robust setup.

There's a huge price difference between shared hosting and dedicating hosting costs, though dedicated hosting is still well within the realm of affordability for small businesses if you shop around.

Some websites start out on shared hosts/servers and scale up to dedicated hosting/servers as needed. That's a fairly wise and economical route to go, in my opinion.