Comments on: Redirecting a subdomain to another server or host

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:31:46 +0000

I also don’t get the 1st step. There’s no problem in setting up two accounts with a shared host with the same domain?

By: gigi

gigi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:12:31 +0000

the missing piece: parking the domain on the destination host. so when it reaches the host, it knows what to do with it. works now.

cheers
gigi

By: gigi

gigi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:24:08 +0000

@Skyfall

I took it from cpanel, I can see my website by typing in the browser:

http://serverIP/~myHostgatorUsername

I guess that’s the way things are set up there.. you can get a dedicated IP for a few bucks more and I guess I’ll do that at some stage, although this is not my main hosting account.

Thanks
Gigi

By: Skyfall

Skyfall — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:19:18 +0000

@gigi
Not sure what to recommend, how did you obtain the IP address for the target server? There is a possibility that is wrong, other than that I don’t know what else to try.

By: gigi

gigi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:39:58 +0000

@Skyfall
on the source host i added a dns record, and the target ip address. the target is on a hostgator shared account..

thanks
gigi

By: Skyfall

Skyfall — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:34:49 +0000

@gigi
Hi gigi, sad to hear it’s not working for you, it has worked on at least 3 servers for me all with shared hosting. It must be something to do with the apache/server setup on one of your hosts…

The reason why it works with shared hosting in general with only the IP is that you are not only doing an IP redirect you have added a DNS record. When your browser queries the nameservers they tell the browser where the domain is pointing so when the request goes to the destination server the domain information is in there and it is treated like any other domain request, it is just coming from a different nameserver.

Are you sure it was an A DNS record you added on the host?

By: gigi

gigi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:23:17 +0000

It does not work if you don’t have a dedicated IP on the destination host, since all you type in is the IP of the destination shared server, and how will that server know to proceed specifically to YOUR shared account, if the IP doesn’t belong to you specifically.

I have tried this and unfortunately I was redirected to a dead page which is presented when you type in my shared account’s IP in the browser.

Need to have dedicated IP on the destination..

By: Skyfall

Skyfall — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:27:14 +0000

I guess it depends on the host, glad you got it sorted

By: J_p

J_p — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:05:45 +0000

Got it sorted – had to create the domain and then the sub domain for it.

By: J_p

J_p — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:14:45 +0000

Hi Skyfall.

Thanks for replying – I’m having a bit of a problem understanding this though.

For example, if I have my main website (mywebsite.com) on my primary hosting, and I want a blog on secondary hosting with the sub domain name of blog.mywebsite.com, would I have to create the domain mywebsite.com on my secondary hosting and then create the subdomain .blog for it?