Proxy sites

You can use a special solution to display a whole site on your filter - a proxy site. It allows you to use DeepLink and completely hide the target and dummy site URLs from visitors. The content of the sites is displayed on the domain you specified while maintaining the functionality of the sites, including the user's personal account, comments and other services. Redirects and iframes are not used. This method is highly complex and requires hosting and a domain.

Important! We do not guarantee perfect stable operation of this method. It has many limitations, requires a special infrastructure, carefully prepared sites, and requires mandatory testing for your specific case. You can use this technique only at your own risk.

The direct domain parking service allows you to simplify the work with proxy sites. You just need to prepare the VPS once to act as a proxy server as described in the instructions. Next, you simply park the domain according to the instructions to this server and select the filter site you need in the settings.

Very important! Proxy sites are not the perfect solution for displaying any website. They will not suit you when working with complex sites. They do not support connection to any ports other than 80 or 443. They do not support non-standard headers. They won't be able to get throuth the Web Application Firewall (like CloudFlare or Nemesida) services on the target sites. They do not support any protocols other than classic HTTP/HTTPS. It is recommended to use them exclusively with sites that you prepare for work yourself, and not with existing public resources.

Proxy website with DeepLink

Difficulty: high

How does it work: you are using a filter site located on a separate hosting and domain. The visitor goes to your site, is analyzed by filters and receives the content of the site that suits him. At the same time, the site looks and behaves as if it always existed on the selected domain.

Pros: a universal way to work with any links, work on your own domain, no redirects, no iframe, no binding to the AlterCPA One server, completely hiding the addresses of the target site and dummy site, DeepLink support.

Cons: requires separate hosting. High complexity of implementation. Possible low speed of work due to the need to proxy all requests.

How to implement: you need a domain and separate hosting with PHP support. The cheapest hosting plans will do, maybe even free ones. PHP CURL module is required (available almost everywhere). Both target and dummy sites are required.

  1. In the "My Campaigns" section, add a new site with the domain linked to your hosting.
  2. In the "Target site" and "Dummy site" fields, enter the domains of your landing page and the dummy page. It is necessary to specify the domains of the sites, and not their full addresses! The use of a dummy is mandatory.
  3. Life hack: you can specify the full address of a dummy site instead of a domain. In this case, regardless of the Deeplink address, the dummy will always open the specified page.
  4. Save the site and go to its "Manual" section. In the section "Proxy site with redirect" click "Download" to get a ready-made archive of the site.
  5. Unpack the archive and host its contents at the root of your domain.
  6. Use the full URL of the landing page as a link, replacing its domain with the domain of the filter site. For example, if you use a target link like https://site.com/the/path and domain filter.me, your traffic link will look like https://filter.me/the/path.

Proxy website without DeepLink

Difficulty: high

How does it work: you are using a filter site located on a separate hosting and domain. The visitor goes to your site, is analyzed by filters and receives the content of the site that suits him. At the same time, the site looks and behaves as if it always existed on the selected domain. At the moment of first entering the site, the visitor can be redirected to the subpage of the site corresponding to the specified links. The redirect takes place within the domain and is secure.

Pros: a universal way to work with any links, work on your own domain, no iframe, no binding to the AlterCPA One server, completely hiding the addresses of the target and dummy sites.

Cons: requires separate hosting. One redirect can be used. High complexity of implementation. Possible low speed of work due to the need to proxy all requests. Doesn't support Deeplink.

How to implement: you need a domain and separate hosting with PHP support. The cheapest hosting plans will do, maybe even free ones. PHP CURL module is required (available almost everywhere). Both target and dummy sites are required.

  1. In the "My Campaigns" section, add a new site with the domain linked to your hosting.
  2. In the "Target site" and "Dummy site" fields, enter the full URLs of your landing page and the dummy page. The use of a dummy is mandatory.
  3. Save the site and go to its "Manual" section. In the section "Proxy site without redirect" click "Download" to get a ready-made archive of the site.
  4. Unpack the archive and host its contents at the root of your domain. Use your domain's URL as a link for traffic.

Proxy site without redirect

Difficulty: high

How does it work: you are using a filter site located on a separate hosting and domain. The visitor goes to your site, is analyzed by filters and receives the content of the site that suits him. At the same time, the site looks and behaves as if it always existed on the selected domain. The page is always shown by the URL opened by user, no redirects are used even if the target page doesn't match the browser URL.

Pros: a universal way to work with any links, work on your own domain, no iframe, no binding to the AlterCPA One server, completely hiding the addresses of the target and dummy sites.

Cons: requires separate hosting. One redirect can be used. High complexity of implementation. Possible low speed of work due to the need to proxy all requests. Doesn't support Deeplink.

How to implement: you need a domain and separate hosting with PHP support. The cheapest hosting plans will do, maybe even free ones. PHP CURL module is required (available almost everywhere). Both target and dummy sites are required.

  1. In the "My Campaigns" section, add a new site with the domain linked to your hosting.
  2. In the "Target site" and "Dummy site" fields, enter the full URLs of your landing page and the dummy page. The use of a dummy is mandatory.
  3. Save the site and go to its "Manual" section. In the section "Proxy site without redirect" click "Download" to get a ready-made archive of the site.
  4. Unpack the archive and host its contents at the root of your domain. Use your domain's URL as a link for traffic.

Features of working with nginx

If you are using a web server in pure nginx, you do not have support for working with the .htaccess file that comes bundled with the sites. For correct operation, specify this code in the settings of the main location of your site:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Transparent proxy with Deeplink

Difficulty: medium

How does it work: you are using a filter site located on your proxy server and domain. The visitor goes to your site, is analyzed by filters and receives the content of the site that suits him. At the same time, the site looks and behaves as if it always existed on the selected domain.

Pros: perfect solution, a universal way to work with any links, work on your own domain, no redirects, no iframe, no binding to the AlterCPA One server, complete hiding of the addresses of the target site and stub site, DeepLink support.

Cons: requires the use of a direct parking server. High complexity of implementation. Possible low speed of work due to the need to proxy all requests.

How to implement: you need a domain and a configured direct parking server. Both target and dummy sites are required.

  1. In the "My Campaigns" section, add a new site with the domain linked to your hosting.
  2. In the "Target site" and "Dummy site" fields, enter the domains of your landing page and the dummy page. It is necessary to specify the domains of the sites, and not their full addresses! The use of a dummy is mandatory.
  3. Life hack: you can specify the full address of a dummy site instead of a domain. In this case, regardless of the Deeplink address, the dummy will always open the specified page.
  4. Save the site and go to its "Direct Parking" subsection in the Domains section. Follow the instructions to add a new domain with the address specified in the previously configured site. Life hack: if you check the "Ignore domain from which requests are coming" checkbox, you can use one filter site with any direct parking domains.
  5. Use the full URL of the landing page as a link, replacing its domain with the domain of the filter site. For example, if you use a target link like https://site.com/the/path and domain filter.me, your traffic link will look like https://filter.me/the/path.

Transparent proxy without Deeplink

Difficulty: medium

How does it work: you are using a filter site located on your proxy server and domain. The visitor goes to your site, is analyzed by filters and receives the content of the site that suits him. At the same time, the site looks and behaves as if it always existed on the selected domain. At the moment of first entering the site, the visitor is redirected to the subpage of the site corresponding to the specified links. The redirect takes place within the domain and is secure.

Pros: perfect solution, a universal way to work with any links, work on your own domain, no iframe, no binding to the AlterCPA One server, completely hiding the addresses of the target and dummy sites.

Cons: requires the use of a direct parking server. High complexity of implementation. Possible low speed of work due to the need to proxy all requests. Doesn't support DeepLink.

How to implement: you need a domain and a configured direct parking server. Both target and dummy sites are required.

  1. In the "My Campaigns" section, add a new site with the domain linked to your hosting.
  2. In the "Target site" and "Dummy site" fields, enter the full URLs of your landing page and the dummy page. The use of a dummy is mandatory.
  3. Save the site and go to its "Direct Parking" subsection in the Domains section. Follow the instructions to add a new domain with the address specified in the previously configured site. Life hack: if you check the "Ignore domain from which requests are coming" checkbox, you can use one filter site with any direct parking domains.
  4. Use your domain's URL as a link for traffic.