Domain Forwarding Use
Forwarding is useful when you ve already built a website elsewhere or if you want to connect your domain to a social media page.
Domain forwarding use. To use forwarding and masking for a domain on godaddy it is essential to use the nameservers. You can use outbound spam filter policies to control automatic forwarding to external recipients. The admin can choose whether to simply forward messages or keep copies of forwarded messages in the mailbox.
In order to redirect a specific page or section of your site to a different one you should add the following rewrite rule to your htaccess file. The purpose of domain forwarding is to keep you from having to maintain multiple sites. Log in to your godaddy domain control center.
While domain forwarding lets you direct your visitors automatically to another website masking blocks them from seeing the domain forward by keeping the old domain name in the browser s url bar. This option is not compatible with some sites that have ssl certificates. With domain forwarding you can use multiple domain names to drive traffic to your website.
You can set 301 permanent 302 unmasked and masked url frame redirects for the domain names pointed to basicdns premiumdns backupdns a legacy option or freedns. When a web browser attempts to open a url that has been redirected a page with a different url is opened. Forward your domain to send visitors to a different page when they visit your domain.
There is another option called forwarding with masking. You can watch a short video of this task farther down the page. Redirect a domain s single page to a different page.
Url redirect url forwarding allows you to forward your domain visitors to any url of your choice to a new domain or a different website. With domain forwarding customers visiting any of the domains in the group will be automatically forwarded to the same site. When your customers use the non primary domain to go to your website they are automatically redirected to your website s true domain but they still see the easy to remember domain in the address bar.