Sometimes you may need to Redirect your visitors to a specific page other than the page they are going to land , for example you may need to redirect your visitors from your home page to your forum directly without landing first on the home page , so you will redirect : yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com/vb and every visitor open yourdomain.com , he will automatically redirect to yourdomain.com/vb .
Also there are people use this function if they are going to transfer their website to a new domain name , for example if your website domain is xx.com and you bought a new domain name yy.com and decided to work only on yy.com domain and transfer all your website content to it , so you need to direct all your coming visitors to the old domain ( xx.com ) and redirect them to the new one ( yy.com ) .
Redirect function will help you , so that you will NOT lose any visitor coming to your old website domain and this method is better than uploading a simple index.html page in your old domain tilling your visitor about your new domain . Just redirect them automatically is absolutely better .
So let’s create a redirect from our Cpanel .
Login to your Cpanel First .
Click on the ” Manage Redirects ” button .
- In front of ” Type ” choose : permanent 301
- ” http://(www.)? ” choose your main domain yourdomain.com , or you can specific only a subdomain to be redirect , or you can choose all domains , and on the right hand field , put the destination path you want to redirect your visitors from or leave it blank to redirect your visitors from your home page .
- “ redirects to ” put the new path you want your new visitors to be redirects to ( remember to put ” http://” before the path , and ” / ” after the path .
- ” www redirection: ” choose ” Redirect with or without www. “
For example I’m going to create a redirect from www.site2u.net/bigtutorials to www.site2u.net/create-a-website , so my option will be like that :
Then Click on Add . Now try to open the redirect page and test what you’ve done .
Remember you can redirect to a different domain other than your current domain , or you can create a redirect inside your current domain and between it’s pages .
