Learn How To Redirect Domain In Namecheap ;
Overview Of Namecheap
Namecheap founded by Richard Kirkendall is an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar providing domain name registration and web hosting based in Phoenix, Arizona, US. Namecheap is a budget hosting provider with 11 million registered users and 10 million domains.
What is URL Redirect and how does it work
URL Redirect (also referred to as URL Forwarding) is a technique which is used to redirect your domain’s visitors to a different URL. You can forward your domain name to any website, webpage, etc. which is available online.
Redirects use status codes defined within the HTTP protocol.
Based on this, URL forwarding may be of the following types: 301 (permanent), 302 (temporary) URL Redirects, and URL Frame (masked redirect). Read more about these redirect types.
How To Redirect Domain In Namecheap
To set the redirect for your domain, first, log in to your Namecheap account and click on Manage next to your domain:
NOTE: TLD (Top Level Domain) stands for your domain extension (.COM, .NET, etc.)
There are two ways to proceed with configuring URL redirect:
How To Redirect a URL in the Domain Tab
1. After you click on the Manage button, locate the Redirect Domain section and click on Add Redirect:
NOTE: Click Add Wildcard redirect to create a wildcard record to match requests for non-existent subdomains.
2. Type your domain in the Source URL field (e.g. yourdomain.tld / domain.com / newdomain.info) and the link to which you need to forward your domain in the Destination URL field. If you want both yourdomain.tld and www.yourdomain.tld to be redirected, add the record for www accordingly.
Save the changes using green checkmarks on the right or the Save All Changes button:
More details on the hosts you can use can be found in the “How do I create a subdomain for my domain?” article.
3. Go to the Advanced DNS tab to check whether there are any conflicting records (A, CNAME, URL redirect records with different values but set for the same host). Such records must be removed for the domain to work properly:
NOTE: Your root domain (domain.tld) is marked with the @ symbol in the Host field here.
That’s it! The redirect should be working within 30 minutes.
How To Redirect a URL in the Advanced DNS Tab
1. After you click on the Manage button, go to Advanced DNS tab >> the Host records section. Click on the Add New Record button (not able to edit Host Records?):
2. Select URL Redirect Record from the drop-down menu for Type, put the host to be forwarded to the Host line (@ for your root domain, i.e., domain.com, www for www.domain.com, * for a wildcard record), and enter the destination URL into the Value line:
If needed, change the Redirect Type from Unmasked to Masked or Permanent (301) using the drop-down menu:
3. Save the changes:
More details on hosts you can use can be found in the “How do I create a subdomain for my domain?” article.
4. Make sure there are no conflicting records ( A, CNAME, URL Redirect records with different values but set for the same host) for your domain. If there are any, remove them as follows:
As a rule, it takes up to 30 minutes for changes to be accepted globally.
NOTE: There is an additional A record in the domain zone file once URL redirect is set for your domain. This A record is not visible in the Advanced DNS section. It simply points your domain name to our internal forwarding server and will be removed once the URL redirect record is deleted.
Contact Namecheap
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