Steps to Setup URL Frame in cPanel

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URL redirection and URL framing operate similarly. The only distinction is that the website is retrieved from the other server and shown in a frame, instead of sending the user to your website. Furthermore, your domain name will continue to appear in the browser’s address bar upon redirection.

Unfortunately, cPanel doesn’t have a tool that can automatically set up URL frames. However, with the aid of a few HTML elements in your site index file, you may still do it.

<iframe> tag

The <iframe> tag defines an inline frame which is used to embed another document within the current HTML document.

For setting up URL frame using this tag, insert the following code into your main index file and save the changes (ensure to replace example.com with the destination domain and Site Title with the actual site name that you want to be displayed in the browser tab):

<html>
<head>
<title> Site Title </title>
</head>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body, iframe {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
iframe {
border: 0;
}
</style>
<body>
<iframe src="http://example.com"/>
</body>
</html>

The <noframes> element comprises of one or more elements. Each element has the ability to hold a separate document, so there will be multiple pages fetched into your index page.

For setting up URL frame with the <noframes> tag, insert the following code into your main index file and save the changes (ensure to replace example.com with the destination domain and Site Title with the actual site name that you want to be displayed in the browser tab):

<html>
<head>
<title>Site Title</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="50%,50%">
<frame src="https://example.com">
<noframes>Sorry, your browser doesn’t support frames. </noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

Note 1: HTML5 doesn’t support <noframes></noframes> tags. Therefore, only <iframe> tag is used from the start.

Note 2: Mostly static websites can be framed with both tags. One can guarantee better performance, if URL frame is set for a non-static website.

Steps to Edit the index file for the Domain

1. Log into your cPanel account.

2. Go to Files > File Manager.

3. Navigate to the document root option for your domain for which you need to set up URL frame.

In case it is the main domain for your hosting account, go to public_html folder. In case it is an addon domain, go to the folder public_html/addondomain.com. Here we have public_html.