Mask URL with website title

Question

How I can mask with javascript or .htaccess the URL (in the adress bar) with title of website?

In other words:

This is adress bar:

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http://mysite. com
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I want to show my title of page

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Page Title
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Like APAD1 stated, it's impossible to do this. Fortunately you can change the browser tabs title by updating the tag inside the of your HTML. For example the title of this page is "javascript - Mask URL with website title - Stack Overflow" which you see in the tab. — Mathias Rechtzigel, Apr 16 '15 at 16:41
In the Android browser , at least in Mozilla Frefox . I can do this in browser settings . — Ovidiu, Apr 16 '15 at 16:44
Have you seen that somewhere ? I'm curious to see an example — aorfevre, Apr 16 '15 at 16:51
Then that would be the browser's decision. The server cannot make decisions like that. The only title you can set is within the `` tags, and the browser can leverage that as much as it likes. — Mike Rockétt, Apr 16 '15 at 16:58
Replacing the actual URL with something else sounds like a great tool for a phishing site. — Dan Korn, Apr 16 '15 at 16:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

You cannot change the string in the url bar to a random text. The address bar will always contain an url, and that url will always begin with your domain.

If a browser would opt to display a text in the url bar instead of the actual url, it would be the title you set for your page. This happens in the <title> tag in the <head> of your html document.

You can change the displayed url through the window.history api of javascript, but this will only allow you to change the url to one that is relative to your domain. See this question for more information.

This question will give a general overview of the functionality of mod_rewrite, a module for Apache, that you can use to translate url requests to a specific file on your server. You can also make the browser do a redirect, but you will not get anything sensible out of it when the redirect isn't to an url.

Mask URL with website title

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