Domain Redirection: A Tutorial
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Creating a personal website excited me much. I wanted to just put my full name... you know... something like my passport name? Then it dawned on me that if anyone knew I had a domain name but not know what it was, they would never search my passport name. I knew I had to do something...
Domain Redirection: A Tutorial
- 2. Have you ever tried checking out a website, and
- 3. turned weary exhausted of waiting for it to load If it loads at all?
- 4. You would not want that for your site, yes?
- 5. I have prepared this tutorial so you can create a shorter website address that points to your other site with a long URL.
- 6. But before I start with this tutorial, I would like to answer a few questions:
- 9. We just know of only one smart enough to help us, yes?
- 10. Now, isnt she sweet?
- 11. Just type: domain redirection Domain redirection
- 12. And find a wealth of information
- 14. And to answer the two questions we posed earlier, Here is what WIKI says:
- 15. URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a webpage available under more than one URL address.
- 16. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened.
- 17. Similarly, domain redirection or domain forwarding is when all pages in a URL domain are redirected to a different domain.
- 18. 1. for URL shortening; 2. to prevent broken links when web pages are moved; 3. to allow multiple domain names belonging to the same owner to refer to a single website; 4. to guide navigation into and out of a website; 5. for privacy protection; 6. and for less innocuous purposes such as phishing attacks. URL redirection is done for various reasons:
- 19. For this domain redirection tutorial, our purpose is No. 1 from the above list: URL shortening.
- 20. Now to start with creating a new domain, we open our browser.
- 22. Remember that we will be redirecting another domain to an existing one.
- 23. So, we should already have an existing domain.
- 24. My hosted site is my full name: mariaelenamongaya-solon.com
- 25. Be ready with your registered username and password.
- 28. Click
- 30. Click
- 32. Click
- 33. You can search for your new domain here.
- 34. Most know me as Elena Solon, so if anyone knew I had a domain name but not what it was, guess what they would type. And as experts of Quora succinctly point out. Thus, having your domain as full name will get you on top search results (and not all people with the same full name will have a website so chances are quite good yours will be on top).
- 38. elenasolon.com As regarding .COM, it is always the best option, if it's not taken. Quora Expert
- 39. Click
- 40. We are about to pay for the domain.
- 41. Click
- 42. Need to check some requirements on this page.
- 44. Automatic renewal is very important.
- 45. This is an add on cost.
- 46. Need to learn more.
- 47. Click
- 49. Scrolling down the page, it appears that this option is not that important at this stage.
- 50. You can choose to uncheck this option.
- 52. Click to agree to Terms and Conditions.
- 53. Click to complete purchase.
- 54. Fill out Credit Card details.
- 55. Click to finalize payment.
- 56. Addyour Credit Card Verification Number.
- 57. Page 31 Click
- 58. CONGRATULATIONS! Website is now yours.
- 59. Click
- 60. Newly registered domain is here!
- 61. But noticethat this domainis still unassigned!
- 64. We openour Cpanel again and check.
- 66. Click
- 67. Click
- 68. 2 accounts in your CPanel.
- 69. Click
- 70. Select this.
- 71. Click
- 73. Your new domain here.
- 75. Click
- 76. You have successfully assigned your new domain. Sweet
- 77. So what have we done so far?
- 78. We have Created a new domain shorter than our current URL. We have assigned this new domain to our existing one.
- 79. So now, we shall learn to redirect this new site to our current domain.
- 80. We go back to our CPanel
- 81. Click
- 82. You are directed to this page after that Click.
- 83. Click
- 84. Click
- 85. This page opens after that click.
- 86. Click the newly created domain.
- 87. After the Click, the page opens to this clause.
- 88. As you hover around this area, your first domain comes up.
- 90. Click
- 91. Congratulations!
- 92. So, we now check if our redirect was successful.
- 93. Who else can we turn to?
- 94. Type the newly created domain.
- 96. Wow! Thats it. The tutorial on Domain Redirection.
- 97. Hope this was of help. Hope I was able to help.
- 98. And if there is anything that you may want clarified on.
- 100. Acknowledgement: All images used in this tutorial are taken from www.freepik.com I thank you!