How can I change the URL of one of my website's pages?
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July 5th, 2008
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I have a link on my page named “forums” but when you click it, it still says the URL to the home page of my website? Is there any way I can make it (I.E.) hotsauce.com/forums instead of hotsauce.com? I need a way to direct people to my forums because the only link to my website is to the home page. (I want to make a direct link for each page)
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<a href=“http://www.hotsauce.com/forums”>Forums</a>
Ok thanks so much!!! But where would I put that in at?
What are you using to create your pages? Are you doing it by hand? Using a program such as Dreamweaver?
Actually I’m using freewebs, so would edit the forums page and enter my own HTML, and put the code there?
By the way, where would I get “dreamweaver”? Is it an HTML editor like Crimson Editor?
You would go into your home page, find the link to your forums, and replace it with what we talked about.
And Dreamweaver is a code editor like Crimson Editor, except it is not free. $400 from Adobe.
But the thing is I can’t, the link to my forums IS the same as the link to my home page. I need a way to make them individual urls.
The URL stays the same on all my pages, the only thing that changes IS the page itself, the URL stays the same.
Unless you’ve cooked yourself up some AJAX or learned how to integrate CSS and JavaScript, something isn’t quite right here.
Could I see a link to your website?
It sounds like your website is using DNS masking, you need to turn this off so that every page has a different URL in your web-browser.
Check with the people who you bought your Domain name off, or look for settings which allow you to turn this off.
Publicly or in a comment?
In a private comment is absolutely fine if you’d feel more comfortable that way.
bluemakaki, how would I turn off URL masking, I can’t find it.
Weeee, the problem has been solved through private comments.
For those interested, the site was going through .tk’s redirect service. .tk uses DNS masking, as bluemukaki suggested. programin needed the direct link to his forums page, which he couldn’t find in the address bar because of the DNS masking. It was easily found by copying the link location of the Forums link on his home page.
That’s exactly right, thank you so much Lefteh!
Ouch, .tk… That service has deteriorated. It never really wasn’t that good, but it was a lot of fun when just starting with webdevelopment :)
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