Thanks so much for following up.

Margaret

Yes, it certainly would conflict with your main index page IF you uploaded it to the main root folder – but you don’t …if you look again at the instructions above, you can note that we make a new folder in the root domain (in the example below I’ve called the new folder: your-affiliate-folder), calling it whatever you want, and the new index page that you make goes in there.

So the finished, full url of that folder and page you are making looks like this (I am leaving the : and . out just for the purposes of showing it here – of course, you’ll put it in as normal):

http //www your-root-domain.com/your-affiliate-folder/index.html

As index pages open by default, then you won’t need to add the ‘index.html’ in the url, so it can just be:

http //www your-root-domain.com/your-affiliate-folder/

2. re: the Apache part, I am not very technical but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t – I am also with Hostgator and have no problem with this method.

Just try it and see – it really is quite simple – and you will see whether it ends up on the right page when you test-click your link after setting it up.

Let me know if you still find you have any problem.

Good Luck!

1) If the notepad link cloak is saved as index.html or index.htm won’t that conflict with the home page index.html?

2) Does this method of cloaking require the server to have Apache with mod_rewrite module enabled?

Many thanks for your comment.
Margaret