: Is it possible to use domain forwarding with masking without the use of iframe? I never noticed this before, but one of my sites has domain forwarding with masking enabled, which is adding

@Margaret670

You could just create another domain as you said, just place all your website there(meaning data - all files), but use the same or a mirrored database additionaly. Depends on how often you update your code, etc, you can just create git repo and auto-pull on change for the other website, just adding a small shell automaticaly renaming string domain1.com to domain2.com, you can accomplish this by awk/sed more and possible solutions can be found here on a StackOverflow question : AWK/SED how to do a recursive find/replace of a string?

Vote Up Vote Down

@BetL925

You can use A record to point both domains to the same IP address. Then you can configure the webserver to serve both sites from the same directory. Doing so is usually a simple matter of making sure that each virtual host is set to serve content from a common directory.



Your other option is to run a reverse proxy server on your second domain. When somebody hits /page.html on domain2:


The server at domain2 would fetch domain1/page.html
The server at domain2 might rewrite links and cookies to be appropriate for domain2
The server at domain2 would re-serve the content


A reverse proxy will work even when you can't host the sites on the same computer, but it introduces extra processing which can lead to performance problems.



In either case, you are going to have duplicate content problems for search engines. Search engines are going to choose one of your domains to index and ignore the other. It is usually better to redirect one domain to the other. If you can't do that, you should user link rel canonical tags to tell search engines which domain to prefer.

Vote Up Vote Down