You can manage and configure web redirects by URL for your domains and subdomains from your Client Portal, by accessing DNS management from your domain portfolio:
Tab Domains > Portfolio > Select the desired domain > Right-click > DNS
Here are the steps to follow to manage and modify your web redirects by URL from the DNS configuration of your domains.
Create a URL web redirect on your zone file:
Go to the "Domains" tab in the menu.
Click on Portfolio to display your list of domains.
Search for the domain name you want to modify, hover over the burger menu (3 horizontal bars) then click on “Open action menu”, or right-click. In the dropdown list, select "DNS".
Click in the toolbar at the bottom of the table on “New resource record”.
Select the Record type: Web Redirect
Leave the Source field empty if you want to redirect your domain (example.com), or enter the subdomain to redirect (www.example.com or test.example.com)
Choose the desired Redirect type: "301 permanent", "302 temporary", or "Frame". More info here on redirect types and their definitions.
Target: Enter the target URL to which you want to redirect your hostname (domain or subdomain), including the connection protocol (http://, https://, ftp://). For example the BrandShelter parking page - https://www.brandshelter.com/registered/.
If you intend to inform certain people of the creation of this new DNS record, simply add their contact details in the designated request section « Contact people ». You can also add a note in the « Notes » section.
Check your data and click on « Create a resource record ». Remember that this action will only create the record as a draft and will not publish it immediately.
Click on « Show local changes » to display the newly added record.
Review the changes and if everything is correct, click the « Publish » button to make the DNS record active.
Once your web redirection is added, the system adds an X-WEB-FWD record to indicate the target address of your redirection by URL, and four A and AAAA system records to ensure and execute the redirection via our web redirection servers; these records point to our IP addresses, IPv45.22.145.247and5.22.145.230, or5.22.145.16and5.22.145.121, and IPv62a00:18e0:5:2:f015:6b46:7bb3:1c36and2a00:18e0:5:3:a356:6a4c:7d74:3f0b, or2a00:18e0:5:2:7577:4e4d:413b:f507and2a00:18e0:5:3:dfe2:c743:85aa:61bc.
If the redirection is deleted, the system records are also deleted.
Examples of DNS web redirection on a domain (@):
@ 300 X-WEB-FWD permanent https://www.target.com
@ 300 A 5.22.145.247
@ 300 A 5.22.145.230
@ 300 AAAA 2a00:18e0:5:2:f015:6b46:7bb3:1c36
@ 300 AAAA 2a00:18e0:5:3:a356:6a4c:7d74:3f0b
@ 300 X-WEB-FWD permanent https://www.target.com
@ 300 A 5.22.145.16
@ 300 A 5.22.145.121
@ 300 AAAA 2a00:18e0:5:2:7577:4e4d:413b:f507
@ 300 AAAA 2a00:18e0:5:3:dfe2:c743:85aa:61bc
Warning!
After publishing a Web redirect, it may take up to 15 minutes before it takes effect.
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You cannot create a URL redirect if an IP redirect is already in place on your zone file for the same domain/subdomain. First delete the IP redirect A entry on your zone file, then create your URL redirect.
Tip: If you redirect your domain, consider applying the same redirect to your www subdomain if you want to create the same redirect for your domain (example.com) and the subdomain (www.example.com) for more consistency in operation and navigation.
Redirect and geolocation: It is possible to redirect visitors based on their IP address and/or the language used by their browser. This type of redirect must be implemented at the source code level of your website and requires specific development.
At the DNS level, it is not possible to perform this type of manipulation and redirection.
Useful links:
Configure and Test your web redirects and HTTP(S) responses