Site A (e.g. oldsite.com) is on Host A, Site B (e.g. newsite.com.hk) is on Host B.
I want to redirect traffic from Site A to Site B. Should Host A or B be doing the redirect setup?
Both domains are active. How can i tell the search engine to crawl from Site B and not from Site A?
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I have multiple domains; example.com, myexample.com, exampleweb.com, etc. My DNS for example.com has over 20 subdomains (e.g. www.example.com, client1.example.com, client2.example.com, etc). These various sub-domains' 'A' records actually point to different IP addresses where different web servers are running, so www.example.com may go to one IP address while client1.example.com points to another IP address and client2.example.com points to a third IP address.
I was hoping I could build all the 'A' records in example.com (they are now) so that any time a browser calls for www.myexample.com it is redirected to www.example.com where the 'A' record points to the proper ftp server's IP address. Also, if the browser calls for client1.myexample.com it is redirected to client1.example.com where the 'A' record points to another web server.
It appears that I cannot do this in DNS. It also appears the only solution is to manually create redundant 'A' records in all of our synonym domains then create redirect records (in web.config) on each web server where we redirect the synonym domains to example.com.
We have a wildcard SSL certificate for example.com and don't want to purchase and maintain extra wildcard SSL certificates for all of our synonym domains.
Am I understanding this correctly? We work with IIS web servers.
I tried altering the CNAME record. I tried a single redirect via the web.config (partially works but have to do this for all web servers). Modified DNS for one of the synonym domains to point to the web server with the redirect action. These are only partial solutions. It looks like I have to combine all actions, which is a very complicated solution.
I am using CloudFlare to manage my websites DNS. I want to use Page Rules to setup redirects for a number of URLs to go to another website URL.
Currently my hosting account, I have set them all up as addon domains and then setup redirects in CPanel.
I am moving across my sites to my own cloud server without a CPanel - I am using VestaCP. I don't want to clutter up the website records by adding each and every site I want to redirect to the host (there is a dozen of them) - I want Cloudflare to manage it all.
Is it possible to do this? Like use Cloudflare page rules and remove the A record pointing to the host server IP?
In order for you to use Page Rule to redirect to another site, there are 2 conditions:
Valid A record or CNAME record
That record is orange-clouded
The A record can point to any public IP address, for example 8.8.8.8, it doesn't matter because the visitor will be redirected away anyway. However it can't be IP address that belongs to Cloudflare (e.g. 1.1.1.1).
Similarly to CNAME record, can be pointed to any domain/subdomain (e.g google.com).
Cloudflare has a KB article that explains how you can configure the Page Rule to do the 301 redirection.
i have an Multi Tree Setup with 2 Domains. I use ipandlanguageredirect to adress the correct Language based on the ip to the users.
The configuration of ipandlaguageredirect is done in the extensionmanager so the config is globally configured. If the redirect is done now for the second domain, it got redirected to the first domain.
How can i achieve that a redirect within domain 2 is not redirected to domain 1?
I have a doman, mydomain.com as well as mydomain.biz and would like the the latter to be a synonym for the former: whenever a user enters www.mydomain.biz they are taken to www.mydomain.com.
I have everything working for mydomain.com and thought, from my limited understanding that a CNAME record would accomplish what I'm trying to do, so I have
NS mydomain.biz. = (nameservers that work fine)
SOA mydomain.biz. = (values that work fine)
CNAME *.mydomain.biz. = mydomain.com.
and when I host mydomain.biz I get
www.mydomain.biz is an alias for mydomain.com.
followed by other information that exactly matches what I get with host mydomain.com. Yet, any attempt to navigate to www.mydomain.biz fails.
I'm also perplexed by what I see when I look at propagation of my NS records. Checking for mydomain.biz gives the nameservers specified above, but checking for for www.mydomain.biz gives the values specified (elsewhere) for mydomain.com
Am I not going about this the right way? How should I configure my DNS records to direct all traffic from one domain to another.
DNS cannot redirect a request. Lets take an example on what CNAME does to clarify:
CNAME: domainA ==> domainB
What that would do is send requests for domainA to the same IP as domainB. However the URL will remain domainA (so it's not a redirect, a redirect would actually change the URL).
If you are okay with having the site load under two different domains, then a CNAME record will do the job. However you need to make sure that your server is configured to handle requests from both domainA and domainB. The way you do that is very different depending on your server environment. For example if you are using apache, your virtualhosts determine what domains are handled (you could set it up so any domain is accepted). If you are on shared hosting however, you will likely be restricted to the domain you signed up with. Adding more depends on your web host so you'd have to take it up with them.
If on the other hand you want the visitor to be redirected to domainB, you'd have to point domainA to a server that would return an HTTP redirect. It could be the same server, you just need to configure it to return the HTTP redirect if the request is for domainA.
I have a company website hosted on IIS7 (i.e. website.com) and a blog site hosted on Apache (i.e. blogsite.com). Both sites are located on different physical machines with different domain names.
For SEO purposes, I would like create a virtual directory for the blog content on the website and redirect to the blog site while maintaining the original URL such that:
http://website.com/blog redirects to http://blogsite.com but the browser's address bar still displays http://website.com/blog. Is this possible in IIS 7?
The solution is given in the comment -- create a Reverse Proxy inbound rewrite rule. See tip #7 here.