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I see Dyn has a product that does domain forwarding. I haven't been able to find information about its features. Specifically, can it be set up to do all the following forwards (not cloaking, just regular forward)?

http://example.com/ -> http://www.example.com/ https://example.com/ -> https://www.example.com/ http://example.com/dir/ -> http://www.example.com/dir/ http://example.com/?q=abc -> http://www.example.com/?q=abc

I have an SSL certificate that works with both http://example.com and http://www.example.com.

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asked Sep 28 at 06:53 AM

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If you just want to do regular forwards, you should do that on your web server. WebHop is primarily useful for when you can't use port 80 and don't want people to have to type the port in.

More importantly, WebHop can't redirect sub-pages, it redirects an entire domain. So it could redirect http://example.com to http://www.example.com, but not for any specific page or subdomain. It also doesn't work with HTTPS.

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answered Sep 28 at 09:00 AM

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"WebHop can't redirect sub-pages, it redirects an entire domain."

You can, of course, redirect a URL like:
http://example.com/dir/doc.html --> http://www.example.com/dir/doc.html
especially with cloaking, not so easy with HTTP 301/302. I do this a lot.

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Why redirect at all?

  • Configure www.example.com as a CNAME of example.com,
    -or-
  • configure www.example.com as A record, same as example.com.
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