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Monday, April 11, 2011 2:32 PM
Hi All,
We have an application that was previously hosted on an internal server (http://example.com). This application is now being hosted by an outside vendor with a different URL (http://new.server.com).
To make it easy for our users, we placed a shortcut. in the Start Menu in our image. I'd like to set up a redirect in DNS to point example.com (which no longer exists) to new.server.com in our primary DNS server (Server 2008R2). If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
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Monday, April 11, 2011 7:06 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote
DNS was not designed for URL redirection, rather just for hostname resolution. So there's really no way to "redirect" a URL from non-secure to a secure HTTPS link.
For something like this, if you still have the internal server, server-name, you can install IIS on it, and under the default site properties, home directory tab (properties would depend on if IIS6 or IIS7), create a redirect to the URL you want.
Ace
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Monday, April 11, 2011 7:36 PM ✅Answered
Hello again,
like Ace said, you can use IIS and perform http redirection.
For more information, post in http://forums.iis.net/ forums.
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Monday, April 11, 2011 3:40 PM
You have to proceed like that:
- Create a primary zone named example.com
- Create an empty A record that points to the IP address of the new.server.com server
Once done, use nslookup to make sure that all is okay.
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Monday, April 11, 2011 3:49 PM
A slight addendum to my question, regarding syntax (and an apology, for not realizing this sooner and making it a part of the original question):
Say my original URL was in the following format, rather than a complete .com domain:
http://server-name/service
And the new address was in this format:
https://new.server.com/sample (it is an HTTPS site)
What would I use for the primary zone? Just the server name? And, would this change the syntax of the host record? Unfortunately, I have no choice on needing to redirect to the "/sample" portion of the URL, the root will not be enough.
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