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Lets assume that your domain is ''testing.me.uk''.
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' so one will need to be created. This needs to be an 'A Record' and needs to point
We then need to tell the webserver to redirect visitors over to your website with the 'www', hence the redirect file.
=Setting up the Redirect=
==Creating the DNS Entry
The DNS entry will need to be an 'A Record', set to 81.187.30.81,
[[File:Webhosting-dns.png]]
You can download this example here: [[File:index.http.zip]] (Don't forget to unzip and edit the file)
FTP to your web site, using the username of testing.me.uk (
Upload the index.http file, and then go to your web address without the www, and you should get redirected.
Here we are using FileZilla to FTP the index.http file, we log in to the webspace using the username testing.me.uk (
[[File:Webhosting-ftp-indexhttp.png]]
Do contact support if you need help, as they can do this for you.
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