# HTML question: Can I make my website URL look different?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 5, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084 "2010-10-05T03:42:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/1 "2010-10-05T03:42:27Z")
I am creating a web page for a group that I’m a member of. When I make it official, I want it to look like a sub-page from the group’s domain; however, it’s written in PHP and mysql, so I need to keep the source on my webhost.
Does this make sense? Right now the url is “www.zyada-stuff/projectpage” but I want it to look like “www.grouphome/projectpage”
FYI, the actual page is a gallery of items for sale, which is why I’m not including actual links to the site.
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### Author:  [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/2 "2010-10-05T04:03:14Z")
Um no… otherwise I would just make www.zyada-stuff/projectpage look like [paypal.com](http://paypal.com) and start making money.
Unless you buy both URLs and point them to eachother
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/3 "2010-10-05T04:04:19Z")
You just point a subdomain of their domain to your webhost. This is very simple to do, but the details escape me. My LAMP is packed away right now.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/4 "2010-10-05T04:20:03Z")
You could have their webmaster set up www.grouphome/projectpage to redirect to your page.
Or you could move your files over onto their hosting. They could set up the subdomain for you, and give you your own FTP login and password.
Either way, it would require their webmaster to set up something on their end.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/5 "2010-10-05T08:44:43Z")
You could also display your content in an iframe on their page. This is often called “domain cloaking”.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/6 "2010-10-05T11:29:12Z")
I am assuming you want to change
www.zyada-stuff/projectpage.com "
but I want it to look like “[www.grouphome.com/projectpage](http://www.grouphome.com/projectpage)”
You could make a new domain name [grouphome.com](http://grouphome.com) and forward it to whatever page you want.
Now you can use a rewrite engine of some sorts to clean up messy urls.
For instance,
[Markxxx.com/Blog/Posts.php?Year=2006&Month=12&Day=10](http://Markxxx.com/Blog/Posts.php?Year=2006&Month=12&Day=10)
could become
[Markxxx.com/blog/12/6/10](http://Markxxx.com/blog/12/6/10)
using a rewrite engine
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/7 "2010-10-05T13:04:31Z")
> [@nyctea scandiaca](#):
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> You could have their webmaster set up [www.grouphome/projectpage](http://www.grouphome/projectpage) to redirect to your page.
A redirect will still show the target URL in browser’s address box.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/8 "2010-10-05T13:24:55Z")
I think it’d be easier to get it set up as [http://projectpage.grouphome](http://projectpage.grouphome). But you’d still need their help.
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### Author:  [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-question-can-i-make-my-website-url-look-different/556084/9 "2010-10-05T20:07:44Z")
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