cPanel – Redirect
How to use Redirections in cPanel?
There are two types of redirects available –
Permanent (301) Redirect
This one redirects your visitors to a new website and updates your visitor’s bookmarks. This also directs search engines to your new website. This redirect is permeant and means that the page has moved. So, the Search Engine and other crawlers update their data according to the new link. Popularity and SEO of link remain the same as the old link had.
Temporary (302) Redirect
This one redirects your visitors to a new website but does not update your visitor’s bookmark. Search Engines still index your original website. This redirect is temporary and the search engine thinks that the new link is going to get removed, hence it does not have the same popularity as the old link.
Create a Redirect
To create a redirect, please follow these steps −
Step 1 − Click on Redirects found in Domains section of cPanel Home.
Step 2 − Choose your redirect type from the Dropdown Menu, Permanent or Temporary Redirect.
Step 3 − Choose the Domain Name you want to redirect from the Dropdown menu of lists of domains.
Step 4 − In the next textbox, enter the path of page or path of the folder you want to redirect.
Step 5 − Enter full URL of the page your domain will be redirected to, in Redirect to the textbox. You will also need to specify the protocol as well, Http:// or https://.
Step 6 − Select www. redirection, it determines that if you want your domain to be redirected with www or not. Explanations of options given below.
- Only redirect with www. − This redirect will be done only if the user has entered www. in URL.
- Redirect with or without www. − This redirect will always be done, does not depends on whether the user has entered www. in URL or not.
- Do not redirect www. − This redirect will not work, if the user has entered www. in URL.
Choose your option accordingly, recommended is that you use Redirect with or without www.
Step 7 − Select Wild Card Redirection checkbox, if you want to redirect all files and folders in a subfolder to the same file or folder in the new domain. For example, with wildcard redirection, www.example.com/pic.jpg will redirect to www.new–example.com/pic.jpg. Without wildcard redirection www.example.com/pic.jpg will redirect to Select the checkbox accordingly.
Step 8 − Click on Add button to save the settings.
