custom url

Dan:)_7

right, what i want is,
when i type in http://www.google.co.uk into IE
i want it to go to my custom google page which is hosted on my website

How do i do this?

terryharman

Hey

i dont understand your question, do you have a website? why do you want google.com to go to your site ?

as far as i know its not possable as the domain is pointing to googles servers and not yours.

elite_2

Edit your hosts file (google) - not sure it would be wise to post full details here as it could be used maliciously


It will only work on the machines you make the edit on

Dan:)_7

no it aint malicious.. what ive done is made this google page:
http://danclose.co.uk/Documents/igoogledc.html

and insted of typing http://danclose.co.uk/Documents/igoogledc.html i want it so when im on my laptop only it will go to http://danclose.co.uk/Documents/igoogledc.html when i type google.co.uk

spook

Unfortunately editing the hosts file won't work because (a) your web server doesn't have a dedicated IP address and (b) you will need to be able to see https://www.google.co.uk in order to get any search results back from google.

It might be possible using Firefox and greasemonkey... but not easy!

terryharman

try looking at this:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial51.html

might be helpfull, not sure :P

Dan:)_7

spook wrote: »

Unfortunately editing the hosts file won't work because (a) your web server doesn't have a dedicated IP address and (b) you will need to be able to see www.google.co.uk in order to get any search results back from google.

It might be possible using Firefox and greasemonkey... but not easy!

How would i do this?

sra

If you are using IE6 then there's a quite easy way (I can't remember off the top of my head but I could find out.)

But for IE7 they've changed things

Dan:)_7

please do find owt!

sra

Dan:) wrote: »

please do find owt!

Found it - But looking at it I don't know if it's much use to you though
Didn't know quite what to google but "ie shortcut trick" worked

A while back there was a lot of fuss about this -
Here's the story and how it's done.

Basically you could get IE6 to launch a prog when the url of your choice was entered.

So you could try -

• Right click on the Desktop and create a new Shortcut
• Point the shortcut to "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://danclose.co.uk/Documents/igoogledc.html
• Call the shortcut www.google.co.uk
• Start Internet Explorer and type "www.google.co.uk" into the address bar

If you do this in IE7 it (rightly) pops up a warning - and maybe even in IE6 if they patched it despite their protests that it was a feature.
Also it doesn't work if you prefix it with http://

BillScarab

wouldn't it just be easier to set your page as your home page?