Re-direct website?

mel123

Hi
If I have an old website, lets say mel123.ie and thats hosted with eircom, its an old out of date site
Ive since got say mel123a.com which is fully functioning

I want to divert the old site mel123.ie to mel123a.com (if a user types www.mel123.ie they automatically divert to mel123a.com)
What do I need to do and should it cost me much? Will eircom do it, or the hosts of my new site? I know obviously I could ring, but Id rather know a little about what I should be talking about before I ring either

KonFusion

Google "301 redirect"

It's very easy to do.

mel123

Thanks so much for the reply, but I dont think thats something I can do, I am currently using someone else to do all the work

KonFusion

mel123 wrote: »

Thanks so much for the reply, but I dont think thats something I can do, I am currently using someone else to do all the work

Ask them to do it? They can probably even do it through the control panel of your domain registrar.

Or if you've a nice registrar, you could ask them to forward it for you. Takes less than 5 mins. They'll probably do it for free.

sheesh

also if you own the original name mel123.ie

you can just change what url that points to there might be a small charge for that. it can get finicky depending on the hosting.

but yes that is easily done. I have done it myself.

Evennia

If you have access to your new url's control panel (and you still own - kept up the renewal of the old domain name or url) you can 'park' the domain under the new one as well.