Webhosting Redirecting: Difference between revisions

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If you would like your web site visitors to view your website without the 'www' part, then this is how to do it:

Overview

Create a DNS 'A' Record
Create an index.http file to redirect visitors to your main page.

Explanation

Lets assume that your domain is testing.me.uk.

Reason behind this: You will already have a CNAME DNS entry for 'www.testing.me.uk' set to 'www-server.co.uk'. However, by default we do not create a record for just 'testing.me.uk'

The DNS entry will need to be an 'A Record', set to 81.187.30.81, ie:

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