Redirecting a Site

Depending upon how you set up your website(s), you may find you need to redirect your domain to go to a different place.

As you have learned elsewhere (maybe), there are two basic components that make up your site - your domain name, and your site which is "hosted" somewhere. You need a place to put the files that make up your site and umwdomains.com is an example of a host. Think of your domain name as a street address, and the host as your house. The difference, and it's a BIG difference, is that when you move, you keep your address as long as you want it, and you move the house.

You will also come to think of a domain as an identity. Some are easy to understand - andyrush.net, marthaburtis.net, jimgroom.net. Others are more cryptic like bavatuesdays.com, and timmmmboy.com

Here is an example of a domain being forwarded (redirected):

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So what is going on in the screenshot above is, first, a domain name "umwnewmedia.org". It is just a name with no "hosting" associated with it. However it is slightly easier to remember umwnewmedia.org than umwdtlt.org/newmedia. So we use the former to "point to" the latter. Typing in http://umwnewmedia.org in a web browser will redirect us (forward) to the website at http://umwdtlt.org/newmedia

Here is a partial list of domains at umwdomains:

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You can view the list of your domains by clicking the "Websites and Domains" tab on your main control panel page, or by clicking "More -->" in the "Websites and Domains" section of the main control panel page.

You can have three types of listings for domains. In the example above "umwgeography.org" is a valid domain, but it is not hosting a site at the moment (no web hosting). There is an option to add one. "umwnewmedia.org" is being forwarded to another site, in this case something on "umwdtlt.org" (forwarding). "umwqeppilot.com" is an actual webhosting site (website hosting)

How you select these choices is represented in the following screen.

Here is the screen to select what your domains does:

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