Redirect with frame forwarding (domain name stays in the address bar)

Do you want visitors on your domain to see a different website, while your domain name stays in the address bar? That's possible with frame forwarding (also called masked forwarding).

Please note: many websites don't allow themselves to be shown in a frame. In that case, the page stays blank. For search engines, there's almost nothing on your domain itself: the content visitors see comes from the other site. As a result, your domain usually won't be found with that content. Usually a regular redirect works better. Read Creating a redirect to another domain.

Frame forwarding is different from what Google calls cloaking. Cloaking is deliberately showing search engines different content than visitors, and that falls under Google's spam policy. A frame shows everyone the same thing.

How to create frame forwarding

1. Log in to DirectAdmin and open System Info & Files, File Manager.
2. Go to the folder domains/example.com/public_html.
3. Create a file index.html with this content (replace the address with the site you want to show):

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head><title>Your title</title></head>
<frameset rows="*,0" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="https://www.voorbeeld.nl">
</frameset></html>

If there's already an index.php in the folder, remove or rename it, otherwise that one will be shown first.

Also see in the DirectAdmin manual: Opening File Manager: the folders in your package.

Detailed explanation with screenshots: Redirect Site: forwarding a domain or page in the DirectAdmin manual.