Domain name forwarding from .ca + .com to .org name

[nsfahey]

Hello,

I have a question about redirecting domain names.
To protect my web ID I have purchased .com and .ca versions of my .org name. However, currently when a user types in the .com or .ca version they get the same content as the .org version, which is good . The bad thing is that in the address bar the name stays as typed, i.e. .com, .ca, or .org. For consistency I want the address bar to display the .org version so when a user types in the .com or .ca version, the address switches to the .org version. A working example of this is on the http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ site. When I type www.davidsuzuki.com the address automatically changes to www.davidsuzuki.org. I was able to mimic this when my .com and .ca versions were not parked on my host. But I need them to be parked on the host so that I can enable email forwarding in case a user sends an email to one of the .com or .ca versions or our old web address.

The redirect feature in cPanel only works for pointing from a file name to a new domain name... and an HTML-side redirect just loops the redirect into infinity.

I would really appreciate your help on this.

Sincerely,
Nathan

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

an HTML-side redirect just loops the redirect into infinity.

You mean a meta tag?
like:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://domain.com" />

[nsfahey]

That's right. That meta-tag does change the address to the .org version, but infinitely refreshs the page, which prevents the user from doing anything with it.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

show me the code,
you should only place the meta-refresh on the ".com" page

[nsfahey]

I've tried
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://domain.com" />
and a simliar re-direct one that I don't immediately have.

The problem is that the .ca, .com, and .org versions all point to the same web host and so the content is identical. So that means that I can't just put it on the .com version because anything that I upload is the same stuff that all three of the domain names point to. I think it somehow has to be done on the control panel side...

Is there a way to make it refresh only once?

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

You could have it refreshed to another file (e.g.: commonindex.htm)
or link the "com" and "ca" domains to a subfolder in which there is an index file that redirects to the parent directory.

[nsfahey]

Hmmmm... there's gotta be a way to do this on the server side... and the Permanent Redirect create a similar constant loop that results in nothing being loaded regardless of whether or not the .com, .org, or .ca versions are loaded.