How to re direct 1 URL to another URL.
User URL Redirection
Maurice Watts
Last Update 2 months ago
How to re direct 1 URL to another URL.
About URLs
As we know all websites have URLs which are the web addresses where they live and from which from which they can be accessed.
However, whilst all websites have a URL not all URLs are websites Other things that have URLs are:
· PWAs
· Knowledge Bases
· Storage apps
· Vending Machines (1982 Carnegie Mellon University Coke vending machine)
· And more
Storage apps (e.g. Dropbox, One Drive, Google Docs, and individual folders within those apps etc) if you can access it on the Internet, it has a URL, but they don't all start HTTP.
Now there is an international record for all of the URL's in existence and this is held a the cloud of servers known as DNS (Domain Network Servers), So all you have to do is change the DNS pointers, from where they point now, a URL, to where they will find that URL you want them to access.
I use GoDaddy and in GoDaddy, you simply go to domain, then to DNS. When you get to the DNS record. click on forwarding and it will ask you for the URL you want to forward to; you type it in, hit the button wait a few days for all the DNS servers in the world to catch up, and you're good to go.
Your ISP may have a dashboard as easy not and may have tech support, to do it for you (Go Daddy do!),. If you want to move any part of your process to Go Daddy, Let Maurice (Http://melvillemarketing.co.uk, pointing to https://www.bizicard.in/mauricewatts) know!
Either I'l do it, teach you to do it, or have GoDaddy do it!
Now, as an example of why you would want to do this:- Melvillemarketing.com has had a website on it since 2004, but in 2024, we decided to move it to a PWA, which has a fliplet URL, but I wanted those familiar with the old address to simply access the PWA without any further clicks or intervention.
So, what I did was to point the DNS command at melvillemarketing.com and forward it to the DNS record for the PWA which happens to be https://apps.fliplet.com/melville-marketing/home-1c9p6. But to reach it you still simply go to https://melvillemarketing.com just as you have for the last 20 years!