Using DNS to redirect to another URL with a path [closed]

Answer 1

if you use AWS, a redirect like

mail.foo.com --> mail.google.com/a/foo.com

can be setup as follows:

1. in s3, create an empty bucket "mail.foo.com"
2. under Properties -> Static Website Hosting, set "redirect all requests to: mail.google.com/a/foo.com"
3. in route53, create an A record "mail.foo.com"
4. enable "alias", and set alias target to the "mail.foo.com" bucket

not a pure DNS solution, but it works ;)

But be aware of, the redirect skips all the URL parameters e.g.: ...?param1=value1¶m2=value2