Urgent question

[PaulGor]

Need some information ASAP - my domain registrar changed its support features set :veryangry:

I bought a domain 5 years ago for one and only one reason - to let me (and other people, say in forums) avoid using very-very long URL of my existing (since 1996 so I can not move, it's listed everywhere) site at Compuserve.

Classic Compuserve URLs are auful:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>/mypage.htm

So I bought a domain from active-doman.com because they - unlike others - did provide such option (until yesterday!) - in their Domain Control Panel I specified, in columns 1 and 2 of "URL redirect"

www http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>
and
@ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>


which did what I wanted - each time I or other person wrote, say in a forum, a link to a page on my Compuserve site, using domain name I bought f.e.

http://myNEWdomain.com/Page33.htm

it was automatically redirected to
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>/Page33.htm

and it's what a user saw in the address bar.

This had been working for the last 5 years just fine, so there are very many URLs of this kind ( like http://myNEWdomain.com/Page33.htm ) in Internet forums, articles et all

But since yesterday programmers at active-domain.com made some change and this does not work anymore -
http://myNEWdomain.com/Page33.htm gives error 404 :disappointed:

Sure, server-to-server does work (without a page listed), so if I type http://myNEWdomain.com then it is redirected to http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>

but it's useless really, it's not what I wanted when I was buying the domain...

I filed a ticket to their Support - saying that it worked for 5 years aso looks like their programmers did some change - but received ridiculous response that I am asking about "sub-directory redirection" which is not supported.

First, there is no sub-directories in my examples I gave above and to them - just HTML files on the server - server.com/*.htm
Second, it was working all the time for 5 years!

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My urgent question: do you know a domain seller that does provide such feature? I then will move my domain to them...

:shy:

 

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

since you bought "mynewdomain.com and are forwarding it to ourworld.compuserve.com, that is fine.

but the url mynewdomain.com/page33.htm is not set-up to forward to the compuserve subdomain, that's why the 404

 

[PaulGor]

since you bought "mynewdomain.com and are forwarding it to ourworld.compuserve.com, that is fine.

but the url mynewdomain.com/page33.htm is not set-up to forward to the compuserve subdomain, that's why the 404

First, I do not do that - not compuserve.com, but ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor
It works but I need a different thing - to be able to point to any of my pages this way:


It had been working fine for 5 years - using domain name as a "short URL alias" for my Compuserve site where I have 100+ pages -

each time me or someone else send say a message to a forum with

http://domainIbought.com/page132.htm

it was immediately resolved as

hhtp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/<my User ID>/page132.htm


It's why I bought that domain - from that Registrar - 5 years ago - to be able to avoid using long and bad Computerse URL.

It worked - until yesterday - all these years, day-after-day - a lot of such URLs to my site are ont he Web.

My question is whether some one knows another Registrar that provides for such feature - to use domain anme as a short-cut to the pages of some site.

************* Added 03/03/09:

Happy to report that active-domain people did listed to my complain,
"It had been working for 5 years until today; your programmers obviously made some change"

Now the functionality is back!

That is, their programmers removed that bad-side-effect cnhage that limited the functionality!

In the mean time I asked another registrar - netfirms.com - and they replied that with them the domain name also can server as such shortcut!

So may be (English is not my native language) I described my problem badly and people here did not understand what I was talking about