Simple domain forwarding

[mbitzl]

Hi,

first, thanks for you great work!

I think it would be a nice feature if the main domain of a web could be set as forwarding domain to some url. The customer should be able to change this url by himself.

Best regards,

Marcus

[Hans]

If i understand you well, this can be done already on the Co-Domains tab, click on the IP of the website and then specifiy another URL or folder where you can foward to. This is also available for clients.

[mbitzl]

Well, almost. This works for co-domains, but not for the main one (together with the hostname). To make my suggestion more clear: Let's say we have a web with

Host: www
Domain: example.com

then it is possible to create a co-domain with another host and let this point to some URL, for example example.com --> some url, abc.example.com --> another url, ...

What I want is simply make www.example.com forwarding to some url directly. Until now, I use the following workaround (which is ok, but not that nice):

I create a new web with forwarding.example.com and add www.example.com and example.com as co-domains with forwarding urls.

Maybe it is really not necessary to add a direct forwarding solution, but maybe others would find it also useful...

Greetings,

Marcus

[till]

To forward a domain (website, not co-domain) to another URL, you can put an apache redirect command in the apache directives field of the website.

[wr19026]

How would I go about forwarding a co-domain to an entirely other machine?

Example:

I have installed ISPConfig on IP 10.0.0.150. One of the hosted domains is www.mydomain.dom.

What I want to do is:
- create a co-domain backup.mydomain.dom
- have this point to a machine (not running apache etc.) at another location, with the IP address 192.168.0.1; I want to then use rsync to create the backups

I have tried this in the tab for co-domain -> forward and entered the IP address there, but it doesn't seem to work.

[falko]

Have a look at chapter 2.3.2 on http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/m..._src.htm#4_2_3

[wr19026]

Originally Posted by falko

Have a look at chapter 2.3.2 on http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/m..._src.htm#4_2_3

I tried that and what happens is that I get a 404 error as the redirect ISPConfig does is to http://www.mydomain.dom/192.168.0.1/

What I really want is to fully redirect to the external IP address 192.168.0.1 as I'm under the impression that I'll need an FQDN in order to be able to set up rsync

[till]

Originally Posted by wr19026

I tried that and what happens is that I get a 404 error as the redirect ISPConfig does is to http://www.mydomain.dom/192.168.0.1/

What I really want is to fully redirect to the external IP address 192.168.0.1 as I'm under the impression that I'll need an FQDN in order to be able to set up rsync

I guess what you are looking for is not a domain redirect. If you want to pint a domain to a IP address, you must set this up in DNS and not as http redirect.

[Dennis]

I think this is a really useful feature. A frame redirect is even something ispconfig is not capable of right now.

The control panel of a big hosting company offers these options:

Type of use
- Webspace or Forwarding

Forwarding options
- Forwarding destination
- Type of forward: Frame or http
- title
- meta description (optional)
- meta keywords (optional)

For those who wonder how to set the apache redirect mentioned by till:

Redirect / http://www.anotherdomain.tld

[Baggus]

Maybe this will help you:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback