hosting my own domain and website and forwarding to it

hosting my own domain and website

[gladwin]

Hello everyone, very nice forum going on here! Well, someone said:

1)You register a name
2)You modify the A records of that name to point to your static IP
3)You create a directory on your webserver
4) You create a new website in IIS, pointing to that directory
5) You modify the hostheader name of that new website to accept requests for that name you just registered.

My question is regarding the "masking" and/or "forwarding" of a domain to a static IP. Many domain registration companies offer "masking", but all they're doing is creating a framed page. Now, Googlebot hates framed pages, and in the end, we have numbers and letters and text floating around in search engines. How do I create a "real" domain without any frames?

For example, we have

www.webmasterworld.com

and

www.webmasterworld.com/glossary/

See? There are no frames!

Thanks,

G

[txbakers]

Hi and welcome to the WEbmaster World forums!

I'e never heard of that situation, so I would look around at different registration companies.

I assume you are talking about a way to hide the contact information of the new domain name?

Or, if by masking you mean hide the file name (name.html) that is a different process.

Either way, you don't need frames for either of these.

[gladwin]

Thanks for the reply txbakers.

Let me give you an example:

I own this domain: www.example.com and just for fun, I'm hosting a website on server called [10.10.10.10...] running Windows XP.

All my domain is doing is forwarding it to this server. How do I hide my ip address? I can use "masking" but all that is, is creating a framed page. I read somewhere I need to use a DNS software like BIND. Now, am I on the right track? If i am, i'll dig more into it.

Again thanks for your reply! A great forum here.

G

[edited by: txbakers at 1:29 pm (utc) on July 5, 2006]
[edit reason] privacy issues [/edit]

[txbakers]

You can't hide an IP address.

IP addresses are how the internet works. You can hide the owner of the domain name, but in order for other computers to find yours, they need to know theIP address.

DNS and BIND are programs that help computers translate 'example.com' into 10.10.10.10 so that it can find your computer.

Also, Windows XP is not really a web server. It's a learning platform to help you get some basics about web hosting, but if you really want to host a website you'll need to get a server software.

You can do it on an XP machine using Apache, or Xitami, but the IIS that comes with XP isn't designed to really host a website.

[gladwin]

Aha! now i get it. Thanks