Redirect my domain

matuscsak-tamas wrote on 3/6/2015, 12:40 AM

Hello!

I've a domain registered with Magix.

Now a new website was created at another provider, under a different domain name.

I cancelled my contract with Magix, but for the period until this domain will be shot down I'd like to have the visitors redirected to the new domain.

Naturally I could do it by placing an image with a link on the opening page, but I'd like to have a direct link, so by entering the old domain name (the one I have with Magix) automatically redirected to the new page, so the new project would be seen at first.

How is it possible to do?

Many thanks,

Tamas

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johnebaker wrote on 3/6/2015, 8:01 AM

Using Notepad or Notepad++ copy and paste the code below

<html>

<header>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://destination.com/" />

</header>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Change the destination.com URL to wherever your new site is.

Save the file as index.htm and index.html make sure the file extension is correct and not .txt

Upload both files to your old site.

When a browser hits the old site they will be redirected to the new site.

HTH

John

johnebaker wrote on 3/7/2015, 3:59 AM

Hi Tamas

From your PM you should only have two HTML files called index.htm and index.html both containing just the code I posted below.

In the old website rename any original home page file to a different name.

Create the two files as below and place both of these in the same location as the original home page.

The reason I recommend using both index.htm and index.html is because some people actually type these directly into the browser as well as the website URL

HTH

John