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

Answer 1

I will suppose you have this scenario: You have a unique webserver hosting various websites, each one is supposed to be presented by a separated domain:

• http://example.com/customer1/website/page1.html
• http://example.com/customer2/website/page2.html

so, the page1.html should be served by www.customer1.com and so on.

1. create a subdomain inside the example.com dns server (your webserver):

   customer1.example.com

2. in your apache virtual server settings, map the subdomain to the directory that contain the web site for your customer #1, like this:

<VirtualHost *:80> SetEnv PAGE_ID "customer1" ServerName customer1.example.com ServerAlias www.customer1.com DocumentRoot /your/local/path/webserver/customer1 </VirtualHost> please note the value for "ServerAlias", it is important for the next step-

at this point, you should be able to navigate to your customer1 website by browsing to:

customer1.example.com

3. In the DNS settings for customer1.com you must make a CNAME record:

   CNAME=www LOCATION=customer1.example.com

Now, you're enabled to use: www.customer1.com.

Answer 2

My solution to this problem was pretty simple and straight forward. All you need is an IIS server running inside the domain.

Setup CNAME in DNS to point to the IIS server, using host names in IIS to resolve several sites on a single IIS server. I'm using the same IIS server to farm out a few sub domains to external sites.

Then in IIS setup setup redirection for that site to go to your offsite site/path, in my case it was our hosted catalog that I wanted catalog.ourdomain.com to go to. From here all the tweaking is done in IIS. Be sure to enable anonymous authentication so traffic will not be blocked.

Answer 3

I have a personal project that might help you in solving this issue. It's an open source redirect solution that allows you to redirect your domain just changing your DNS settings. Link of the project: https://redirect.center/.

To redirect www.proof.com to www.proof-two.com keeping the URL parameters, just set your www DNS entry on proof.com:

www.proof.com IN CNAME www.proof-two.com.opts-uri.redirect.center.

Answer 4

To answer the original question, no, what you want is not possible using only DNS (like everyone has stated). In addition to everything mentioned already, another option is to use a URL redirection service. These types of services can enable you to configure many different types of URL redirects depending on your needs. For example:

1. Forward a domain apex to a www. subdomain or vice versa
2. Forward a collection of domain names to a single destination (useful for forwarding domain misspellings, old company names, etc.)
3. Forward specific domain names to deeply linked pages (like what the OP wants)

A service that does this is EasyRedir. Full disclosure: I developed EasyRedir. There are certainly other options out there though, so I encourage you to have a look around.

Answer 5

Edit

It seems that it's my provider (OVH) who allows that kind of redirect within its infrastructure.

See : https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/domains/redirect-domain-name/

I'm keeping the answer below for the sake of archiving, but it doesn't provide any meaningful information for other DNS providers.

Original answer

I did that using a TXT record.

To redirect foo.bar.com to foo2.bar.com/path, just add foo IN TXT "1|foo2.bar.com/path" in your bar.com DNS zone.

It also keeps the url paths and parameters. So if you try to access foo.bar.com/hello?foo=bar, you'll be redirected to foo2.bar.com/path/hello?foo=bar.

Answer 6

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&param2=value2