Redirect URL Print

Use this feature to redirect your visitors from one web page to another or even to a different Web site.

To create a redirect in a Unix-based account:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.
2. Scroll down to find the Redirect option and click the Add icon next to it.
3. Agree with the charges.
4. On the page that appears, create the redirect rule.

Unix-based accounts

Entering http://www.examples.com/products into the Redirect from field and http://www.examples.com?param1=yes in the to field, will take all the http://www.examples.com/products visitors to the http://www.examples.com?param1=yes page.

If you leave the Redirect from field empty, visitors will be redirected from any location in the site. In the to field, you can enter URLs with parameters, as illustrated in the screenshot above.

Leave Redirect status as is unless you want to change the default:

• Permanent: returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource has moved permanently.
• Temporary: returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default and indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily.
• See other: returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the resource has been replaced.
• Gone: will cause a visitor's browser display "The requested resource is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource." message when trying to go to the 'to' URL.

Windows-based accounts

In Windows plans, redirect works in a slightly different manner:

•  The exact URL entered above
  redirects requests for any files in the indicated directory to one file. For example, to redirect all requests for products.html file to the following URL: 'www.example.net', enter www.example.net/products.html in the To field and select this option.
  You can redirect requests to URLs with parameters, for example www.examples.net/?param1=yes
  *Note: you can redirect requests for files and directories both to your own site and to any other external URL.
• A directory below this one
  redirects a parent directory to a child directory.
  - For example, to redirect your 'examples.net/products' directory to a subdirectory named 'news', enter 'excample.net/products/news' in the 'to' text box and select this option. Without this option, the Web server will continually map the parent to itself.
• A permanent redirection for this resource
  sends the following message to the client: '301 Permanent Redirect'. Redirects are considered temporary, and the client browser receives the following message: '302 Temporary Redirect'. Some browsers can use the '301 Permanent Redirect' message as the signal to permanently change a URL, such as a bookmark.