Title: Link Masking
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Link Masking

 *  [justinm715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinm715/)
 * (@justinm715)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/)
 * I have a WP blog hosted at a [http://example.com/~name/wp](http://example.com/~name/wp)[
   1]
 * I have a domain name [http://somewhere.com/](http://somewhere.com/) [2] I have
   set up this domain to forward any requests that go to it to [1]. For example,
   [http://somewhere.com/123](http://somewhere.com/123) goes to [http://example.com/~name/wp/123](http://example.com/~name/wp/123)
   and [http://somewhere.com/images/myimage.jpg](http://somewhere.com/images/myimage.jpg)
   goes to [http://example.com/~name/wp/images/myimage.jpg](http://example.com/~name/wp/images/myimage.jpg)
 * Essentially, I would like to change the base URL of the links, images, etc. to
   be [2] with absolute paths instead of [1] with the relative path.
 * (I’m certainly not a professional, so if I’m misguided, please do correct me –
   I’ll learn something!)
 * Cheers,
 * Justin

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 *  Thread Starter [justinm715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinm715/)
 * (@justinm715)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337025)
 * If not all is possible, would at least changing the post permalinks and pages
   links be possible?
 * I basically don’t want [1] to be visible. I want [2] to be visible.
 *  [leifandersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leifandersen/)
 * (@leifandersen)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337027)
 * I’m almost certain you can do it. Try going into the settings and changing the
   blog address URL (not the wordpress instalation URL).
 *  Thread Starter [justinm715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinm715/)
 * (@justinm715)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337030)
 * I’ve tried that. When I change that, though, accessing my posts and pages yields
   the following error page:
 * Not Found
    Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.
 * All the CSS and links seem to be fine as the URLs use [2], but the content cannot
   be retrieved.
 *  [leifandersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leifandersen/)
 * (@leifandersen)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337067)
 * Hmmm…did you also try moving the wordpress install link? (note that if it dosn’t
   work though, you will have to recover your install, but I don’t believe that’s
   too hard).
 *  Thread Starter [justinm715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinm715/)
 * (@justinm715)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337119)
 * the wp install link? by that do you mean the wordpress address? i’ve changed 
   it to [2] and it seems to work, but then when i try to log in it doesn’t log 
   in (i just get the log in page again) and all the links have the path of [1]

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## Tags

 * [absolute](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/absolute/)
 * [cloaking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cloaking/)
 * [masking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/masking/)
 * [paths](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paths/)
 * [url](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url/)

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 * Last reply from: [justinm715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinm715/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-masking/#post-1337119)
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