Is there a service that will redirect your naked domain.com requests to www.domain.com? [closed]
I know this is easy with a 301 redirect in the apache config, but I'm looking for a 3rd party service that can do this cheaply or free. I'll be using this to redirect non-www traffic to a www record I've CNAME'ed to an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer hostname.
Solution 1:
Yes - two which are free are arecord.net and wwwizer.com First requires email confirmation and signup second seems better/easier - IP is provided on the homepage.
What I'm still searching for: a free redirect service out there which you can point to via A/CNAME record, and it will allow you to redirect to ANY destination URL!
Solution 2:
You should make this a HTTP 301 Moved Permanently redirect, as you mention.
Most DNS hosting services have this, so the first place to look would be your current DNS host / DNS service provider. There doesn't seem to be any agreement on what to call this -- GoDaddy seems to call it "forwarding", Gandi calls it "Web Forwarding".
If your DNS service provider doesn't have this, then the simplest solution would probably be to either:
- Find a super inexpensive web host like Nearly Free Speech, assign the root @ to this host's IP, and use PHP/.HTACCESS as you mention, or
- Switch to another DNS service provider.
.. at least I'm not aware of any (large, reputable) services which just do HTTP redirects without doing something else too, like DNS.
Solution 3:
Amazon's Route53 DNS service supports pseudo-A records for an ELB instance (they call them "ALIAS" records).