My employer, a University, regularly hosts conferences and other events. While websites for these sites are hosted on our domain, they frequently request customized .com urls. We then forward these domains to the specific site.Recently, we discovered a problem, where a page will not load if the following conditions are met(using a current example):website is created on our CMS for a conference http://continue.weber.edu/nulca domain is created http://www.nulc2012.com and forwarded to http://continue.weber.edu/nulcThe user enters www.nulc2012.com into their address bar using IE7 or IE8The user has *.weber.edu listed as a trusted site in IE security settings (the case for nearly all on-campus computers)When this happens, their browser will correctly transfer to the page http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/index.php, however the page is blank, returning only:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN><HTML><HEAD><META content=text/html; charset=windows-1252 http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML>Is there any know solution to this problem? Or am I missing something completely?Note: Tested websites do load correctly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
Domain forwarding to a IE trusted site opens a blank page
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Your friend in this kind of situation is cURL.A really really quick tutorial...Use curl's view headers only option (-I) to see what headers the server returns on your published domain:curl -I http://www.nulc2012.com/I got this response, which says that a Permanent Redirect 301 is being sent to the browser, along with the target URL:HTTP/1.1 301 Moved PermanentlyDate: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:13:04 GMTServer: Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.6X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.6Location: http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/index.phpConnection: closeContent-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1So then copy the target URL and do the same:curl -I http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/index.phpWhich gives me the server response for the target URL:HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Length: 0Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6X-Pingback: http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/xmlrpc.phpX-Powered-By: ASP.NETDate: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:52:19 GMTI see that you got it working! I bet it was a PHP error that was causing the empty response.