New domain name: back to basics

I've got a server running apache. I've got a domain name registered via DollarHost. My server's IP changes daily, from 209.53.63.222 to 209.53.60.49. To compensate, I downloaded dns2go from Deerfield.com and got a permanent web address: qartis.dns2go.com. I wanted qartis.com, though. Once I bought it, in setting up the dollarhost account, I had one feild to put my actual server's address: I put qartis.dns2go.com because it will always be correct.

Now, on my website, qartis.com, every link says it's going to http://qartis.dns2go.com/* and the URL feild says that the user is at qartis.com when they're actually looking at whatever.php. Does anybody get what my problem is?

>> Does anybody get what my problem is?

Yes but I am not familiar with dns2go. Here is what you can do:

1) Don't use absolute links
2) Run a proxy with mod_proxy + mod_rewrite like so:

You need to uncomment libproxy.so and mod_rewrite.so.
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName gartis.dns2go.com
DocumentRoot '/path/to/docroot"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName gartis.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^gartis\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/icons/(.+) - [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://gartis.dns2go.com$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>

The mechanism that's pointing quartis.com to qartis.dns2go.com is a simple URL redirect, and this is the behavior that results from that mechism.

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freebsd:

The links aren't absolute; dollarhost is set up to redirect qartis.com to qartis.dns2go.com, and is set to still show qartis.com. That's probably why even qartis.dns2goc.om/whatever.php shows up as qartis.com.

I found another problem: when a visitor of qartis.com venturres on to, say login.php, the URL bar says qartis.com. Then, when they press refresh, their browser, thinking they're at qartis.com, is redirected back home.

When I load the proxy, with permissions set, and:



, I get: Error 403, Forbidden.

Hmmm...

>> dollarhost is set up to redirect qartis.com

Then mod_proxy won't work. BTW, why dns2go? There are many alternatives out there.

dns2go, because it's the first one I found, and I was tired of telling prople my website was "209.53.63.222, or 209.53.60.49. It switches between those two, so if one doesn't work, it's the other.'.