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Old 03-06-2008, 03:56 PM
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Hello everyone,

Me and some friends maintain 2 different accounts at hostgator. The first is www.retromaniax.gr (Baby Croc) and the second is www.b2r.gr (Swamp). We wish to transfer domains in such a way (or do whatever it takes), so that if someone enters the www.retromaniax.gr address he'll view the contents of www.b2r.gr, BUT with www.retromaniax.gr being maintained as the main domain.

Example: A user clicks www.retromaniax.gr and views what exists at the www.b2r.gr server. However, while doing so, he uses the retromaniax.gr domain exclusively. So if he wants to navigate to a folder /vb that exists under www.b2r.gr server he types www.retromaniax.gr/vb

How can we achieve this? Do we need to cancel the retromaniax.gr account to free/unpark its domain and then request b2r.gr to
change its main domain to www.retromaniax.gr? Is there any easier alternative?

A prompt reply will be highly appreciated....
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Old 03-06-2008, 04:32 PM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

do you want to keep the b2r.gr domain too? If so, then you could just park the retromaniax.gr domain on top of the b2r.gr domain. That way both domain names work as separate domains, but they are pointing to the same files on the server.
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Old 03-06-2008, 04:45 PM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

I don't mind if the b2r.gr domain keeps on existing or not as long as retromaniax.gr leads to it.

The point is, because I already have retromaniax.gr existing as main domain at its own account, if I park it to b2r.gr nothing at all happens! This means that retromaniax.gr and b2r.gr keep on leading visitors to their own different servers.
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Old 03-06-2008, 05:13 PM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

are the two accounts on the same server?
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Old 03-06-2008, 05:40 PM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

You should just consider letting them switch the main domain. It's a very easy process.
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Old 03-07-2008, 02:58 AM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

The accounts are both hosted at hostgator but on different servers

Would cancelling the retromaniax.gr unpark its domain automatically so I could park it successfully to b2r.gr? (I don't really need the actual contents of the retromaniax.gr server since they'll be all merged in b2r.gr)
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Old 03-07-2008, 03:13 AM
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Default Re: Transferring or redirecting main domain?

Simply have ONE account and if you only want 1 domain simply do the main domain transfer which can be requested here: https://secure.hostgator.com/changedomain.php

There thats it.
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