I'm working with multiple domain names and I want to set it up so that when someone accesses the top-level of one domain, it redirects to another domain. However, if someone goes to a specific path on that domain, I want to keep them on the same domain without redirecting. For instance, I want 'name.net' to redirect to 'name.com', but keeping 'name.net/foo' intact. How can I achieve this?
2 Answers
Unfortunately, DNS alone can’t do this kind of redirection. DNS is just for resolving domain names to IP addresses, so it doesn't handle redirects. You'll need to use something like web server configuration or a content delivery network to achieve this.
If you're using Apache, you can set this up with mod_rewrite. Just enable the RewriteEngine and add a rule like this:
```
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect only the root request
RewriteRule ^$ https://name.com/ [R=301,L]
```
This configuration will redirect the root domain requests while letting everything else through.
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