Question
DigitalOcean DNS - Where is the Redirect/ALIAS DNS Record?
- Posted on February 11, 2015
Asked by jasonsaeho
I’m trying to redirect www. URL to non-www. but I do not see a Redirect or ALIAS DNS record option any where. How can I redirect my website/app using DNS?
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As @andol mentioned, ALIAS records are not really an industry standard.
If you wanted to set up a redirect from one domain to another yourself, you can point an A record for both domains to same server. Then perform the redirect using Apache or Nginx:
You can vote for this feature at: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-589
Just because something is not a standard…doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea! A standard is just some people’s idea of what something should do. So I don’t rate this top answer.
Let’s agree that ALIAS records are super useful and would be awesome and really really should be implemented :-)