I was wondering if someone could tlel me how to redirct a domain to my website.

I'm trying to redirect www.joinphila.com to www.joinphilly.com

Thanks for any help!

hi jenny:

in your Groupee Web Services Control Panel, go to Advanced>>Domain Pointers and set up a pointer by adding joinphila.com to the Source Domain field. then click "Add".

That is how I have it setup but if you go to www.joinphila.com it takes you to a site that says this : "The SSL/TLS-aware Apache webserver was successfully installed on this website."
and a bunch of other stuff...

hi jenny:

i'm sorry - i forgot that you have to uncheck the "create as an alias" box when setting up the pointer. i made this change for you, and it's working correctly now.

thanks,
kate

Thanks Kate

For future reference what does create as alias mean?

This has been here since april second, anybody now?

While I'm not an expert on this, I think that the domain pointer actually redirects you to a new URL while the alias just creates a sort of mask for the original URL.

I think the aliases don't work for shared customers because of the way the domains are set up, which is why the domain pointer is the way to go

Like I said, however, that's just my basic and perhaps flawed understanding. Anyone with a better idea is free to correct me.