Hi guys! I have 3 domains that I want to use for my personal website. These are 3 different combinations of my name + last name and I want them all to point to my web server. Let’s say I want to use fullname.com for my website, but I also want to redirect requests from shortname.com and middlename.com to fullname.com.
On my account I’ve created all 3 domains to make them point to my droplet. But the problem is that, if I browse to shortname.com, I do not get redirected to fullname.com. How can I achieve these? I understand I cannot add a CNAME record as those map subdomains to hostname.
Any idea? Is there something am I missing?
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You’ll need to set up the redirects on the web server itself. Assuming you are using Apache, it would look something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName shortname.com
Redirect permanent / http://fullname.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName middlename.com
Redirect permanent / http://fullname.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName fullname.com
# The full configuration for your site....
</VirtualHost>
Check out this tutorial for more information on setting up redirects with example for both Nginx and Apache:
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