Domain Pointer

How do I point a domain to another URL from the Dreamhost Control Panel?
Where do I need to go?

If you want to redirect abc.com to xyz.com:

Panel > Domains > Manage Domains


- Click Edit next to abc.com

- Redirect to URL: xyz.com

- Click the Redirect this domain now! button.




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Thanks.

abc.com is redirected to xyz.com

Another query. If I need to point abc.com/page to pqr.com?

In .htaccess

Redirect 301 /page http://www.pqr.com

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I have not hosted the website with any application. Just only set a URL pointer. Where do I find .htaccess ?

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I have not hosted the website with any application. Just only set a URL pointer. Where do I find .htaccess ?

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You have set the domain to be "fully hosted" instead. At that point you specifiy a "FTP / CGI runs-as user
", and a "web directory". Login to to FTP/SFTP/shell as this user and create the .htaccess file in that directory. Eg:

user = johndoe
domain = example.com
create /home/johndoe/example.com/.htaccess


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I do not want to Fully Host because I need a redirection. Any thoughts on this?

It *has* to be Fully Hosted for you to redirect elements within it.




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And to redirect the Main domain?

If you redirect the entire domain then elements no longer exist within it.

What, precisely, are you trying to accomplish?




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/home/user/abc.com/.htaccess
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# Redirect particular page
Redirect 301 /page http://www.pqr.com
# Redirect other pages, 
Redirect 301 / http://www.xyz.com

Keep in mind when the url-path is a directory the rest of the request uri will be added to the new URL,
eg

# http://abc.com/files/something.jpg -> http://www.xyz.com/files/something.jpg
Redirect 301 /files http://www.xyz.com/files

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Thanks

The following did not work. It gives me error "404 NOT FOUND"
# Redirect particular page
Redirect 301 /page http://www.pqr.com

Following worked:
# Redirect other pages,
Redirect 301 / http://www.xyz.com

So what do I now need to do for redirecting to a particular page? It is failing though is Fully hosted.

What, precisely, are you trying to accomplish?




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I have a website with a URL: http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html
As this will be difficult in remembering, I have another domain http://www.abc.com and pointed it to above URL. Now through the .htaccess file having entry as follows:-

# Redirect particular page
Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html

# Redirect main page
Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

Now I want to have the following to happen:

http://www.abc.com/ pointing to http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

and

http://www.abc.com/page pointing to http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html

Hope this helps.

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http://www.abc.com/ pointing to http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

http://www.abc.com/page pointing to http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html

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/home/user/abc.com/.htaccess :

Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html
Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

Note that page *means* "page". No extension.

If it's page.html, page.php, etc. then edit your .htaccess to reflect this.




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As said earlier:
The following did not work. It gives me error "404 NOT FOUND"
# Redirect particular page
Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html

Following worked:
# Redirect other pages,
Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

I need to resolve for the "404 NOT FOUND" error

Which didn't work? /page most likely isn't the URL of a page. And there should be a URL for that 404 screen. What's the URL?

Do the following work?
http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html
http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html


-Scott

Looks like this is going confusing:

Let me again try explaining:-

http://www.abc.com/
should point to
http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html



http://www.abc.com/page
should point to
http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html


Following is set in .htaccess:-

Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html
Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html


After doing this, I go to the web browser and enter URL:

http://www.abc.com/

and that takes me to:

http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

which is correct.


Next I enter the following in browser:

http://www.abc.com/page

and that returns me:

404 NOT FOUND

Hope that helps.

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Following is set in .htaccess:-

Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html
Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html

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You have the directives arse-about mate.

What's happening is the request is coming in for /page but your first directive is sending it off to the / link and appending page onto the end of it. If you look in the address bar when hitting that 404 you'll see something like:

http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.htmlpage (which apparently doesn't exist).


Copy/pasta what was typed in the earlier response:

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Redirect 301 /page http://www.bcd.xyz.com/bcd/anotherpage.html
Redirect 301 / http://www.abc.xyz.com/abc/pqr.html

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That's weird. All of the posts up until the last one had them in the right order.

-Scott

Yeah lol.

Even more so, if this redirection kafuffle is due to having a "new, easier to type" URL or whatever it was, the entirety should be migrated to the new domain and the redirection placed on the old "hard" site(s) -> pointing to the new one. The 301 methodology will carry any hard-earned pagerank over to the new domain, making it win/win.




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Thanks a lot... This was the right thing. My issue is resolved.