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I have to preface this by saying I've tried searching the forums for this answer, but my browser kept timing out. So, forgive me if someone's covered this recently. I recently purchased two domain names - one will be the site name, the other, I want to point it to the first, so the user/surfer is re-directed to the first. What's the correct code to do that? Since the site is pretty small, I'm doing this the old-fashioned way with HTML/XHTML code and notepad. I appreciate your help! ~ Christine
You may do this by redirecting your domain name modifying your dns settings. That will be quicker.
Agreed, if you don't know how to do this, your hosting or domain name technical support should be able to walk you through it.Originally Posted by linkstraffic
Thanks for the info - I'll give them a call.
with some javascript in the head ?
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location="http://www.yourwebsite.com";
//-->
</script>
</head>
or with php:
<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com' ) ;
?>
This is great - thank you!
using htaccess is a fast way to redirect your site, because the server checks for a .htaccess file before displaying the page.
Code:Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html
Thanks. I've not used htaccess before - is it best used in a single or multi-server environment?
I'm not very experienced with htaccess files, but they are quite useful and powerful. I'm sure they will work in almost any environment.
htaccess files are used on Apache web servers and can be used in multi-server enviroment.
They control things like user friendly links and permissions to directories as well as forwarding.
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That's good information - thank you both!
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