How To Set Up A Permanent 301 Redirect In Cpanel.

When I started Globalevangelists.com, I originally had the site listed on a different domain name, Just recently I decided to shut down the original site, but because I could see in my statistics that I was still getting traffic to the old site, I thought I would redirect the domain name so I wouldn’t loose any of that traffic.

There are a couple of ways I could of tackled this, one way was to manually add a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file and another way was to do a permanent 301 redirect in my Cpanel, I chose the later.

In this tutorial I want to show you how I easily redirected my old domain name within my web hosts Cpanel.

The first step was to log into my Cpanel.

After logging in, I had to find the icon under the Domains section titled Redirects. Click on it to continue.

Because I will no longer be using this site and I have since deleted it from my server, I want to make my redirect permanent, so in the dropdown menu I chose the Permanent (301) option.

Now I need to choose the domain name I want to redirect, (this domain name must be hosted on your server.)

In the next step I have to add the new URL, I usually open a new window or tab in my browser and go to the website I want my old domain name redirected to, I then copy the entire URL from the browsers address bar and come back to my Cpanel to paste it into the redirect page.

1. Add the new URL including the http://
2. Choose the redirect option, with or without www.(I left this as default as you can see in the image above.)
3. Click on the Add button to finish.

After completing the steps above you can see that I now have the old domain name pointing to my new website.

and Just one last check to make sure everyting is working correctly, I’ll go to a new browser window and type into the address bar the old URL, hit enter on my keyboard, and if everything is working correctly I should see my new website open up in the browser.

Popularity: 26% [?]

More On This Topic...

• How To Add A New Domain Name In Cpanel
• How To Set Up Your Email Accounts In Cpanel
• How To Easily Log Into Cpanel
• Installing Wordpress With Cpanel Security Upgrade