URL masking

[sirluke]

Hi everyone,
I've a small problem.
I've a site temporarily hosted on a free service that doesn't have DNS management and gives me only and url like: http://user.hosting.com

I've installed CMSMS 1.1.4.1 and everything is fine, now the problem is how to mask the ugly url with the domain name I have, like www.mysite.com

On my domain registrar I can set a redirect to user.hosting.com but I want the url bar to show www.mysite.com, not user.hosting.com.
Can it be obtained with .htaccess and a rewrite rule?
Thanks

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

you want to host your site at your domain ? Why not ask your domain provider to host your site ?

Pierre M.

[sirluke]

It's a temporary solution, I need to do some maintenance to my server and I want to use a free hosting as a backup. That gives me a url like: username.frehostingprovider.com, and I'd like to avoid users seeing that.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

[kermit]

my recommendation is to just PAY UP and get proper hosting. a free provider with third-level domain hosting is NOT the place for you given your requirement. perhaps this provider you're using has a paid plan in which they will properly host your domain and allow you to use www.yourdomain.com instead of user.freebiehost.com

if you wish to use some sort of frames-based URL cloaking (which is your other option), the first place to check would be where you have your domain registered.. I know Network Solutions offers it (they charge, IIRC), 1and1 and Godaddy offer masking free with their domain registrations..