How to redirect a subdomain to another website?

Question

I bought domain www.mydomain.com from godaddy.com. I hosted it at www.000webhost.com (free web-domain-hosting site). I created a subdomain subdomain.mydomain.com through ccpanel of 000webhost.

I want that subdomain to be diverted to my blog http://myblog.blogspot.in/

Right now I have a folder named subdomain in my root folder. What shall I upload in that folder so that It gets redirected to my blog?

Solution 1

Use either a .htaccess file or create a PHP script with the following:

<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://the-network-king.blogspot.in');

To create a 301 redirect.

and save the file under name index.php else it wont pick up file.

Solution 2

Most domain name registrars provide a free redirection service, I think GoDaddy does too. Why not just do that?

If you want to get more technical, then redirection can be done (in code) in a few ways (in order of difficulty).

• Frames. Welcome back to 1999-2002. Just put a static HTML <frameset> page up and load your target page in a whole-page frame. Your users will hate you.
• <meta> redirection. Another staple from the late-1990s school of web design. Put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL='http://example.com/'" /> in your HTML page.
• Javascript redirection. In a <script> block in your page call window.location = "http://www.example.com";
• Server-side redirection. All server-side redirections are done by setting the Location: HTTP header. How you do this depends on your server platform:
  • PHP: header('Location: http://www.example.com');
  • ASP: Response.Redirect("http://www.example.com") (also works for ASP.NET)
  • ASP.NET MVC: return Redirect("http://www.example.com"); (call inside Controller action method)
  • .htaccess: A bit more complicated. See the link below.

There's a whole load of redirections in a variety of platforms and languages here: http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php/

Solution 3

You could technically use the Go Daddy subdomain forwarding function from within your Domain Manager. http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4040/managing-a-domain-names-forwarded-subdomains

Once added, you will need to point an A record subdomain from where your DNS is actually hosted (www.000webhost.com) to the Go Daddy forwarding IP 64.202.189.170.

Comments

[jeet.chanchawat]

I added this code to a redirect.php file (7 hrs ago). uploaded it to that folder. dosen't seems to be working. I am getting 404 not found msg

[Martin Bean]

Well you're obviously not viewing the right URL.

[jeet.chanchawat]

I got to know what I was doing wrong... I named the file as redirect.php I must have named it index.php :)

[jeet.chanchawat]

godaddy is keeping a count of number of edits. So, I am avoiding edits through godaddy. after 100 edit counts it would again start aking for money.

[Leo Prince]

Try "redirects" from cpanel and add the URL myblog.blogspot.in for your subdomain. If godaddy is not helping try reading another hosts blogs to create. See this linkhttp://support.hostgator.com/articles/cpanel/url-redirec‌​t-how-to-create

[Leo Prince]

Hi martin, comment is not for you :) I was telling to the jeet (who asked question) to read the blog to create redirects from cpanel. No worries :)