[Stanza]

Hi guys,

I hope you can help, and I apologise in advance for my ignorance. I have had a look at a few topics and youtube vids but nothing seems to comprehensively help me. I've built a website for a local heating company and we have bought 3 domains for them:

• www.la-heating.co.uk
  
• www.la-heating.com
  
• www.birminghamheatingservices.co.uk

I have a reseller hosting account with Market Hosting, and set up a new hosting account within that for www.la-heating.co.uk. Very simply I want to permanently redirect la-heating.com and birminghamheatingservices.co.uk towards la-heating.co.uk

I bought the names on domainexpress.co.uk and it gave me an option to webforward, so I entered the desired domain in that area (la-heating.co.uk) for the other 2 domains. The .com version loads the site but still says .com at the end, and the birminghamheatingservices.co.uk one is just showing a domain express holding page (although it seemed to work ok briefly yesterday) I just want them to permanently redirect to la-heating.co.uk.

This particular issue aside, I'd love to get my head around DNS settings (nameservers, A records & CNAME) anyway for future reference. My reseller hosting account offers all sorts of DNS editing options I'm too ignorant to use and it would be nice to customise stuff a bit better if possible.

Many Thanks,

James

[Renaissance-Design]

In each of the other two, set la-heating.co.uk as a cname record for both the bare and www variants.

[Stanza]

Thanks for that, on the domainexpress control panel it's asking for a TTL value? Another acronym I don't understand There isn't even a glossary i can refer to on there

[Renaissance-Design]

TTL normally means Time To Live. 1 hour's the normal default.

[Stanza]

Have you got any tutorials you would recommend? I'm still none the wiser and there's a bunch of stuff in this control panel that is alien to me that I wan't to understand without having to ask for help each time. There are 3 form entries here I don't know how to use properly 1.Alias name (CNAME) 2.Is an Alias for 3.TTL?

[Renaissance-Design]

Can you post a screenshot?

Tutorial.

This post has been edited by Renaissance-Design: 10 December 2011 - 06:58 PM

[Stanza]

Renaissance-Design, on 10 December 2011 - 06:57 PM, said:

Can you post a screenshot?

Tutorial.

Sorry for the late reply mate and thanks for the link

here's a screenshot

[oakleaves]

Stanza, on 10 December 2011 - 06:21 PM, said:

Very simply I want to permanently redirect la-heating.com and birminghamheatingservices.co.uk towards la-heating.co.uk

Isn't a permanent redirect best done with htaccess?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.la-heating.co.uk [R=301]

Save it as .htaccess file and stick it in each site you want to redirect. Or am I missing something?

[Stanza]

oakleaves, on 12 December 2011 - 12:21 PM, said:

Isn't a permanent redirect best done with htaccess?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.la-heating.co.uk [R=301]

Save it as .htaccess file and stick it in each site you want to redirect. Or am I missing something?

wouldn't this mean creating hosting accounts and sites for the extra domains though? I'll do that if have to but would like to avoid that if possible. I was hoping there was a simple way to do that by changing some settings with each domain on with domain name provider (domainexpress)?

[oakleaves]

ah I see. Yes it would, just thought you had hosting set up for each one.

Now I get it.

[Stanza]

I managed to get it sorted using the cPanel log in by using the Add-On Domain facility in the end. I just had to change the nameservers with domainexpress to point to my hosting as well.

It still would have been nice to do it directly through domain express, but nevermind I got the result I wanted in the end.

[rallport]

Stanza, on 12 December 2011 - 12:37 PM, said:

wouldn't this mean creating hosting accounts and sites for the extra domains though? I'll do that if have to but would like to avoid that if possible. I was hoping there was a simple way to do that by changing some settings with each domain on with domain name provider (domainexpress)?

Can't you just add the said domains to your control and set a redirect directly from the control panel? I've not come across a company that doesn't allow this yet.

However, amending the DNS entires directly would be a little neater.