Domain Name Forwarding?

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gpern83

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Hello,

I finally have my site up and functional, but cannot figure out how to keep the domain name in the address bar. As soon as the website comes up, the url is changed to our public IP address. We use godaddy for domain management, and the only option they have is to mask the domain, which keeps the URL as www.mapcycle.com, regardless of the actual page. I beleive the problem is caused because we have to use an ip address, and a subdirectory (24.73.80.99/map/). Godaddy claims that this would be managed on our side, and that it has nothing to do with them. Any suggestions?


Thanks
Garrett
 
If you're generating links that have an IP, the browser is going to display the IP. It looks like it's a problem with your server/application, since going straight to mapcycle.com is redirecting you to a page w/ an IP.
 
Thanks for the response. I wish I had enough knowledge of the topic for a proper response, but I am very new to this.

If the public IP could be assinged to the specific folder of the website, then it would seem I could control it through godaddy.

Any more info would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Garrett
 
I setup the a record to point to our public IP, but I would need it to point to the ip address 24.73.80.99, and then somehow tell it to pull the information from the directory "map", which is a subdirectory of the website in IIS. In IIS, I can see that there is a main website directory, which you can assign an IP to. However, that website contains subdirectories which contains the information for each particular company site. I beleive it would be easy if the website directly contained only one site, or if there were two websites setup through IIS.

I attached a screenshot of what IIS looks like. the map, and the cn are the directories containing the info for each particular site.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

screenshot.jpg
 
If you were working with Apache you'd want 'name-based virtual hosts' - this allows the server to have different settings depending on the name of the site requested, everything from simply changing to site's root directory (as you want here) to having different permissions & available scripting environments.

I'm sure IIS has similar functionality but I swore off using Windows for production work years ago.
 
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