Redirect old domain to new require a separate cPanel account?

Mangoose

• December 02, 2017 17:27

Suppose you had a client who's store previously ran on CFML (Adobe Coldfusion Application Webserver with Windows 2008 R2 and IIS) and the new runs an PHP. The former store ran under olddomainname.com and the new PHP store runs on newdomainname.com. You would want to redirect the customers who look for the old domain name and redirect them to the new store of the client. Does it require you to setup a separate Cpanel account to host just a .htaccess file with IfModule mod_rewrite into it and change at the domain registrar or dns level point the old domainname to the dedicated IP of the new store ? I am fully open for suggestions.

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  24x7server

  • December 03, 2017 05:40

  Hi, You can use the Windows IIS redirect feature to redirect the old domain to the new one.

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  Mangoose

  • December 03, 2017 08:25

  Having IIS redirect is not longer an option. The Windows Server is gone and so is the old store based upon CFML. What remains is the old domain name is still very familiar to the old folk that still refer to the old domain name. In previous workarounds I set up a separate Cpanel account to facilitate the redirect via an .htaccess file. I just wonder if that is the only option I have.

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  rpvw

  • December 03, 2017 09:01

  Is this what you are looking for ? Aliases - Version 68 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

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  Mangoose

  • December 03, 2017 19:39

  Well, indeed this is the documentation I was looking for. Thanks. The problem I see is what to do next.

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 04, 2017 18:45

  Hello, If you add the new domain name as an alias, you could then setup a custom .htaccess rule to redirect all redirects from the old domain name to the new domain name. Thank you.

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  Mangoose

  • December 04, 2017 20:15

  Michael, If I add the new domain as an alias should do anything else beside a .htaccess rule ? What about parking a domain on the server is that not an option ? Regards

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 04, 2017 20:21

  Hello, You do not have to take any additional steps after adding the domain name as an alias, other than setting up those custom redirect rules in your .htaccess file. The redirect rules are not actually required unless you want to ensure the domain name that appears in the browser address bar is updated to match the new domain name. Thank you.

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