We can redirect a subdomain to a different website.
Pre-requisites
- You need access to realgeeks-redirects.herokuapp.com, Send to Sky or Ben N.
- Client domain must be on AWS.
Example: The clients domain is bobsrealestate.com. He wants bob.bobsrealestate.com to redirect to some other non-Real Geeks site, say bobs-wp-site.com
On our DNS:
Create a CNAME for the desired subdomain name to..
For example, creating a CNAME for bob.bobsrealestate.com that points to realgeeks-redirects.herokuapp.com
On the redirect tool
- Log on to https://realgeeks-redirects-ssl.herokuapp.com/admin/
- Click 'Sites'
- Add the URL of the subdomain, bob.bobsrealestate.com in this example.
- Click 'Save'
- Click 'Redirects'
- Build the redirect. In our example, we are sending all traffic from bob.bobsrealestate.com to bobs-wp-site.com. So the 'From url' is .*, 'To url' is http://bobs-wp-site.com, and from the site dropdown, select the bob.bobsrealestate.com site you made in the first couple steps.
On Heroku
- Log on to https://www.heroku.com/
- Select 'realgeeks-redirects' from the list of 'Personal Apps'
- Select 'Settings'
- Scroll down and under 'Domains and certificates', click the 'Add domain' button
- Enter the domain to redirect, bob.bobsrealestate.com in our example. The DNS target will show something like <subdomain>.herokudns.com, bobs.bobsrealestate.com.herokudns.com in our example.
Testing
- You should be able to go to bob.bobsrealestate.com and pull up http://bobs-wp-site.com