Domain Forwarding Service is provided <em>free</em> when you purchase <em>any</em> Product/Service through <strong>Abaco Hosting</strong>. In order to view the <strong>Domain Forwarding Service</strong> interface

This can be achieved by following the steps mentioned below:
<ol>
	<li>Proceed to the <strong>Portal Cliente</strong> interface.</li>
	<li>Click to Manage Domain</li>
	<li>In the Menu Domain, go to <strong>Management Tools</strong> -&gt; <strong>Domain Forwarding</strong></li>
	<li>Click to Activate Domain Forwarding. This will bring up the Domain Forwarding Management interface.</li>
	<li>Enter the Destination URL in the text box provided. This may be of the form domain.com, www.domain.com, www.domain.com/index/index.html, subdomain.domain.com, etc.. You may also choose http or https protocol from the dropdown menu.</li>
	<li>Click the Save button.</li>
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<h2>Additional <a name="options"></a>Options</h2>
<h3>URL <a name="urlmasking"></a>Masking<sup>
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If you enable <strong>URL Masking</strong>, then visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website; however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as <strong>Stealth Redirection</strong> or <strong>URL Hiding</strong>, this will ensure that your visitors see the original domain name and not the destination domain name.

Example:

Your website is hosted at <em>http://destination-domain-name.com</em> and you choose to forward <em>http://your-domain-name.com</em> to this website. If you enable URL Masking, your visitors will never see <em>http://destination-domain-name.com</em> as a URL in their browser address bar.

URL Masking will also work perfectly with <strong>Path Forwarding</strong>. In this case, if you type in <em>http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em> in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed will be of <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em>.
<ol>
	<li>Select <em>either</em>:
<ul>
	<li>the <strong>On</strong> radio button under <strong>URL Masking / Stealth Redirection / URL Hiding</strong> section for enabling this feature, or</li>
	<li>the <strong>Off</strong> radio button for disabling it.</li>
</ul>
Having enabled URL Masking, you may want to set a <strong>Page Title</strong> and <strong>META Tags</strong> for the frames page which is sent to the visitor. This can be done by simply putting in your Meta Tags and &lt;TITLE&gt; Tags in the <strong>Header Tags</strong> box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be output in between &lt;HEAD&gt; &lt;/HEAD&gt; Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. These have to be mentioned in the following format<em>only</em>:

<a name="meta"></a>Meta Tags

<em>&lt;META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Your comma-separated keywords are entered here"&gt;
&lt;META NAME="description" CONTENT="Website description of the forwarded domain name can be mentioned here"&gt;</em>

Page <a name="title"></a>Title

<em>&lt;TITLE&gt;Your Webpage Title can be mentioned here&lt;/TITLE&gt;</em>
<div><strong>Note</strong>Do <em>not</em> mention any text outside the above mentioned Tags or it will disrupt the Domain Forwarding Service for your domain name.

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<a name="noframes"></a>NOFRAMES Page Content

When URL Masking is enabled, the page served to the client is a frames page. Older browsers cannot resolve a frames based page. Moreover, Search Engines have problems trying to spider a frames based website. You may want to set an alternative &lt;NOFRAMES&gt; page content, which would be useful for older browsers and Search Engines. You just need to provide your &lt;NOFRAMES&gt; page HTML content in the <strong>No Frames Page Content</strong> box. Whatever you enter in this multi-line box will be displayed in between &lt;NOFRAMES&gt; &lt;/NOFRAMES&gt; Tags on the frames page sent to the visitor. You may leave box blank, if you do not wish to display &lt;NOFRAMES&gt; page content.</li>
	<li>Click the <strong>Save</strong> button.</li>
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<h3><a name="subdomainfwding"></a>Subdomain Forwarding <sup>
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Using the Subdomain Forwarding service, you can forward any visitor from <em>http://subdomain.your-domain-name.com</em> to <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/subdomain</em>. The Subdomain Forwarding Service can also be used in conjunction with URL Masking Service.

Example:

If Subdomain Forwarding is enabled, then:
<ul>
	<li><em>http://payments.your-domain-name.com</em> will get successfully forwarded to <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/</em>.</li>
	<li><em>http://credit-card.payments.your-domain-name.com</em> will get forwarded to <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/payments/credit-card/</em>.</li>
</ul>
<ol>
	<li>Select <em>either</em>:
<ul>
	<li>the <strong>On</strong> radio button under <strong>Sub Domain Forwarding</strong> section for enabling this feature, or</li>
	<li>the <strong>Off</strong> radio button for disabling this feature.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Click the <strong>Save</strong> button.</li>
</ol>
<h2><a name="pathfwding"></a>Path Forwarding</h2>
This feature would be highly useful when you already have a full fledged website on a particular domain name and want to not only forward some other domain name to it, but also all the paths associated with the website. Thus, if you forward <em>http://your-domain-name.com</em> to<em>http://destination-domain-name.com</em> and you enable Path Forwarding for it, then <em>http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em> would be forwarded to <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em> and so on.

Path Forwarding will also work perfectly with URL Masking. In this case, if you type in <em>http://your-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em> in the browser, the URL in the browser would not change but the page displayed will be of <em>http://destination-domain-name.com/index/index.html</em>.
<ol>
	<li>Select <em>either</em>:
<ul>
	<li>the <strong>On</strong> radio button under <strong>Path Forwarding</strong> section for enabling this feature, or</li>
	<li>the <strong>Off</strong> radio button for disabling this feature.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Click the <strong>Save</strong> button.</li>
</ol>