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Forward olddomain.com/$ to newdomain.com/$

I've switched domains but want to keep my old links forwarded.

So if someone goes to olddomain.com/lol they would be forwarded to newdomain.com/lol

Can I do this with A record? Whats the best method?

Solution

  • CNAME doesn't work across different domains. You have to use an A record and point it to the IP that hosts your new domain.

    newdomain.com:

    newdomain.com. A 1.2.3.4

    olddomain.com:

    ; essentially the IP that newdomain.com is at
olddomain.com. A 1.2.3.4

    Then you need to do something on the webserver hosting newdomain.com to also accept HTTP/1.1 connections for olddomain.com, you can use mod_rewrite or something similar.