How To Create A URL Redirect Print

The Redirects tool in cPanel will allow you to redirect your website's visitors from a source URL to a target URL.

How to Set Up a Redirect

1. Log into cPanel.
2. Under Domains, click the Redirects icon.
3. From the Type drop-down menu, select which type of redirect is to be used.
   • Permanent 301 is a redirect that will update the visitor's bookmarks and direct search engines to the new site.
   • Temporary 302 is a redirect that will redirect the visitor or search engine but will not update the bookmark, and search engines will continue to index to the original page.
4. From the https?://(www.)? drop-down menu, choose the domain name you would like to redirect.
   • If you would like to redirect a single page or directory, you can use the text field that begins with the forward-slash (/) to enter the name of the folder or file.
5. In the Redirects to field, enter the full URL of the page to which you will be redirecting.
   Note: You must enter the protocol (e.g. https://, http:// or ftp://) as well in order for the domain URL to be accepted.
6. Select one of the following www. redirection options to dictate whether or not the domain will be redirecting:
   • Only redirect with www. will only redirect visitors that type www. as part of the URL.
   • Redirect with or without www. will redirect all visitors regardless if they use www. or not.
   • Do Not Redirect www. will not redirect visitors that use www. as part of the URL.
7. Clicking the Wild Card Redirect option allows users to set up a redirect to the same file on a new destination.
   • With Wild Card Redirect, www.example.com/about.html will redirect to www.example-destination.com/about.html
   • Without Wild Card Redirect, www.example.com/about.html will redirect to www.example-destination.com
8. Click Add to create the redirect as specified.

Now when visitors type the exact URL that you specified, they will be redirected to the target site you assigned.