What is subdomain forwarding with masking?
Domain and (subdomain) forwarding lets you automatically direct your visitors to a different website. Masking prevents visitors from seeing your domain or subdomain forwarding by keeping your domain name in the Web browser’s address bar.
Can subdomain be redirected?
You can redirect visitors from a Subdomain to another site address. For example, support.mydomain.com to help.mydomain.com. Follow the steps below to manage redirection.
How do I hide a subdomain?
To hide the subdomain, you can choose to redirect the subdomain to a Not Found page, using . htaccess rule so any visitor that will visit webhosting.chemicloud.com will get a 404 Not Found page. Please make sure to update the above rules to correspond with your domain name and addon domain.
What is masked redirect?
A masked redirect empowers you to use content from another domain while keeping your original domain name in the address bar. You use the URL of your homepage (your domain name) as the URL for every page of your website. A masked redirect is also called URL cloaking or domain masking.
What is an unmasked redirect?
302 Redirect – Unmasked This type is used when a website is temporarily moved from a URL to another. In such cases, search engines will always display the original URL rather than the new URL.
How do I redirect a subdomain to another server?
Put a Subdomain on a Different Server
- Log into account.
- Open the Domain Manager.
- Click the domain you are working with.
- Click “Total DNS Control and MX Records”
- The first group in this area should be A (Host), on the top right of this bar, click Add New A Record.
Are subdomains hidden?
Subdomains are not private. They can’t be made private either. The reason why they can’t be is because of DNS, or Domain Name System. Without going into too much detail, DNS is a database of all domains and subdomains, and values associated to them.