Comments on: How to Setup Redirections Using cPanel

By: poly

poly — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:26:41 +0000

Hello I am having some trouble setting up a custom URL in this site called Cargo. I contacted justhost and they told me that my records are pointing to Cargo already but I still can’t set up my domain, is there something I can do about this?
This is the error that cargo shows me:
Error: your domain’s DNS is either not yet properly pointed, or you may have mistyped your URL. Cargo reads your A record as: 216.139.213.144

And Justhost says they have already changed the DNS what can I do?

Thank you.

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:02:37 +0000

You’re awesome, that worked perfectly!

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:20:57 +0000

Yes but not through cPanel. You’ll have to modify your .htaccess file manually to include this at the top:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.ikehamill.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ikehamill.com/$1 [L,R=301]

By: Ike

Ike — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:38:43 +0000

Is there a way to redirect non-www addresses to www (for SEO) without losing the path?

For example, I want to redirect

http://ikehamill.com to
http://www.ikehamill.com

but keep “/home” if it’s there.

By: Terri Zwierzynski

Terri Zwierzynski — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:03:12 +0000

Wow, thanks for the super-fast reply! And for the advice. That will work just great, thank you!

Peace,
Terri Z

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:51:56 +0000

@Terri

Assuming you are using cPanel, you should find one (or several) files named .htaccess in your backup set.

Try to view them using a non-formatting text editor and see if any of them contains your redirections.

By: Terri Zwierzynski

Terri Zwierzynski — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:48:27 +0000

Hi, I’m hoping you can help me! I inadvertently deleted 40+ redirects when I was making changes to some top-level redirects. Is there a way to restore these? I have a full backup file available…

Thanks in advance,
Terri Z