# Should I set up a masked redirect to my Disclosure VPS? Is there an alternative?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-set-up-a-masked-redirect-to-my-disclosure-vps-is-there-an-alternative/47838>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [2016年七月26日 21:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-set-up-a-masked-redirect-to-my-disclosure-vps-is-there-an-alternative/47838 "2016-07-26T21:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JustJasper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@JustJasper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JustJasper)\
**Post date:** [2016年七月26日 21:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-set-up-a-masked-redirect-to-my-disclosure-vps-is-there-an-alternative/47838/1 "2016-07-26T21:03:50Z")

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First of all, I should preface this with the fact that I am a newby when it comes to SSH and VPSs. That said, I have managed to get a Disclosure instance up and running on a OVH VPS over the course of the afternoon (including the e-mail sending! yay me!).

My question is how best to integrate the forum with my existing site? My website is hosted by Webflow, and therefore I have limited ability to edit or modify the native files. The domain where the website resides is managed by Hover (with a simple ‘A’ record map to the Webflow DNS. All working fine so far.

The issue, and resulting question, arises from how best to integrate the Disclosure forum, hosted on a VPS (with an obscure IP address), into that website?

Ideally, I’d want my visitors to be able to access the forum through ‘[forum.mywebsite.com](http://forum.mywebsite.com)’, and (I think) I can accomplish this through a masked forward within Hover - however, I understand that masked-forwarding is considered SEO-unfriendly, and feels like a bit of a fudge? Is there a better alternative?

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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [2016年七月26日 21:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-set-up-a-masked-redirect-to-my-disclosure-vps-is-there-an-alternative/47838/2 "2016-07-26T21:08:02Z")

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> [@JustJasper](#):
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> Hover

You should have an **A** DNS entry pointing to your webflow DNS site.

Add another A entry on [forum.mywebsite.com](http://forum.mywebsite.com) pointing to the OVH IP.

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**Author:** ![JustJasper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@JustJasper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JustJasper)\
**Post date:** [2016年七月26日 21:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-set-up-a-masked-redirect-to-my-disclosure-vps-is-there-an-alternative/47838/3 "2016-07-26T21:11:26Z")

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Of course! That was an (almost annoyingly) easy fix!

Thanks a bunch.