url masking

[kyrb]

I already have a website that will not host the runbasic app, however, I want to keep it as my main site and then link to apps developed and hosted here on runbasic.com.

But I want retain my web site's url so the user will never know they've switched to runbasic.com when running my apps.

My webprovider allows me to have subdomains and then I can have multiple websites on my one hosting account and users can't tell the difference.

For example, my main web site might be

abc.com

and I might have also have a subdomain

123.abc.com

but users would get to it via url forwarding from

123.com

and any other pages on 123.com would appear as
123.com and not 123.abc.com.

They call this url masking.

Is there any way runbasic.com can provide this?
I'm open for any ideas.

I looked thru all FAQs and I think I read
every post in the forums and didn't see this issue
brought up.

One user was asking about shorter urls
and another talked about possibly using an IFRAME
in a page on their main site, which would contain the HTML code
to run their runbasic app.

[Alyce]

May 5, 2008 12:53:01 GMT -5 kyrb said:

But I want retain my web site's url so the user will never know they've switched to runbasic.com when running my apps.

Just to be clear, do you mean the hosting service at:

runbasicnet.com

That is not the same as the URL you've typed:

runbasic.com

[kyrb]

Uh, yes. My apologies. Thanks for the reply.

[Alyce]

May 5, 2008 19:21:56 GMT -5 kyrb said:

Uh, yes. My apologies. Thanks for the reply.

No apology necessary. I'm sorry I don't have the answer. Perhaps Jerry, who provides the runbasicnet server, can help with this one.

[Jerry Muelver]

Redirection and domain aliasing are typically available in premium web hosting accounts. However, runbasicnet.com is for Run BASIC hosting, not your typical web hosting. The idea is to provide a Run BASIC server environment with a permanent URL. At the moment, we are running a Windows IIS web server as the front end, but all it does is grab HTTP headers and dig out a response. In other words, if you ask for a special HTML or graphic file, IIS will serve it up. The aliasing, redirection, and subdomain assignments for HTTP internet access are not available, due to the economics of the enhanced web server options. Some folks use an index.htm file in their RB account directories with a redirect to their published RB startup file, so users have a simple URL for primary access to whatever the RB programmer has set up. See runbasicnet.com/jterra for one example.

[Carl Gundel - admin]

I wonder if you can put your Run BASIC app in a frame that is in a page already hosted by your current web site.

-Carl

[mackrackit]

May 5, 2008 21:30:32 GMT -5 Carl Gundel - admin said:

I wonder if you can put your Run BASIC app in a frame that is in a page already hosted by your current web site.

-Carl

Yep. Take a look at this.
mac.mf3x3.com/RB.html

[mackrackit]

Forgot to say that the mackrackit.com site is the server in my shop. The mf3x3.com is an off site server.

[Jerry Muelver]

Sure, now I remember early experiments with IFRAME, and Mackrackit's subsequent working out of the details. That gives me an idea for a new option offering for RunBASICnet....

[kyrb]

mack's solution appears to work for what I need.

jterra's short url is handy, but once there, the long url appears, which is undesirable, IMHO.

Thanks to all for the replies and looking forward to Jerry's idea.

[Janet]

That's cool, Dave.
Looks like I need to code a simple but snazzy app to advertise RB on my website. We really are just scratching the surface with RB, aren't we? This exponential growth is just so exciting! ;D