Domain Redirects
The redirection of a domain name to an other website can also be set within the Service Centre. If for instance you have multiple domain names and want visitors for all different domains to end up on the domain under which your website is running, domain redirection is the easiest way to set this up.
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Redirecting a domain
Under the 'Hosting' tab in the Service Centre you can click 'Domain redirects' in the bottom left-hand menu. There, under the 'Overview' tab, you can simply insert the URL where you want the selected domain to redirect to. When entering a URL use the format https://yourdomain.com.
Changing domain redirects
In the 'Advanced' tab you can see which domain redirects you have in place. The redirection from the 'www.' subdomain to the primary domain is there by default. You can change whatever redirect you have set by clicking on a URL, entering the desired URL and saving.
Undo domain redirects
If you want to undo a redirection, for instance because you want to start building a website on that domain, you will need to restore some settings:
- First delete the existing domain redirects by clicking the bin icon to the left of each of them.
- Then add the '@' subdomain again under 'Subdomains' in the bottom left-hand menu.
- Finally, navigate to 'Domain redirects' again, click the 'Advanced' sub tab and create the 'www' domain redirect anew. When creating the 'www' domain redirect, fill in 'www' as the subdomain and '@' as destination. The '@' signifies the primary domain without a subdomain prefix (not https://subdomain.yourdomain.com but just https://yourdomain.com).
Server alias
For multisite solutions you may want several domain names to be redirected to one website, where the URLs originally entered in the browser by visitors do not change. With the current https-standard, this is often not the best solution, but if this fits your needs, please contact us to ask us to configure a server alias.