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I have a main hosting registered with the domain example.com. The hosting allows me to park another domain. I want that any person that access to example2.com be redirected to sub.example.com. In this way:

the user access to:               example2.com/something/a.html
The user sees the content of:     sub.example.com/something/a.html
And the browser displays:         example2.com/something/a.html

I tried to do a CNAME from example2.com to sub.example.com but the pages go to example.com. I think that is because the domain is parked at that hosting.

When I get that done, how I ensure that Google displays example2.com and not the other subdomain?

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  • There's also a way with .htaccess, which I can't remember off the top of my head. – ashleedawg Jan 20 '19 at 14:14
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You could look into doing a "frame redirect". It is also sometimes called "web forwarding" or "masked redirect". In that case the redirect server issues content like this:

<html>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.example.com/my-page.html" noresize frameborder="0">
</frameset>
</html>

This causes the browser to show the contents of your main site, but the URL will show the redirect domain.

This type of redirect is not ideal:

  • The URL doesn't change as the user browses around the site
  • It breaks bookmarking functionality

The other option is to fully duplicate the content and fully host two different domains that have all the same pages on them.

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  • Or with a webhosting with multidomain funcionalities. (: Thanks! – Hernan Di Giorgi Oct 12 '14 at 14:54

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