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How to redirect a domain hosted on 365.
Our domain, Mydomain.com, was moved to Office 365 to host our mail. It is the small business version o 365. At the time our website was http://www.mydomain.com. Our company has changed branding and the website we use is now http://www.thebigdomain.com. mydomain no longer has content. We want people going to http://www.mydomain.com to be redirected to http://www.thebigdomain.com. I changed the A record in 365 to point to the IP address of thebigdomain, but now when you go to mydomain you just get a "HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found." error. So I'm at a loss as what to do next.
Any help or questions to clarify are welcome.
Jim
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- There is an easy solution to this.
Get your website hosting provider to add www.mydomain.com as a host header to www.thebigdomain.com.
If there is no way to do that, you could always do a CNAME redirect (but that's a bit flakey) or spin up another website and forward it on, but that will cost.
Hope that answers your question.
Best, Chris - In your DNS you create a CNAME record for www.mydomain.com pointing to www.mybigdomain.com
For more information about CNAME just google or see following link:
https://www.pickaweb.co.uk/kb/cname-can-use-domain/
Adam
