123-reg and web forwarding

[trafford]

hello folks, changed our .com domain to 123-reg and a little unsre what the settings should be for forwarding.

as i understand it actinic (our hosts) don't use dns and the choices i had were:

No web-forwardingIf you select this option anyone typing traffordangling.com into a web browser will be shown the 123-Reg default page.

Framed web-forwarding to a single page

If you select web-forwarding to a single page the destination URL can have a specific filename on the end (e.g. index.htm).
It could just point to a directory (URL ends with /) in which case the files displayed would depend on the webserver 'directory index' settings.
The destination URL will be replaced by yoururl.com.

Non-framed web-forwarding to a single page

This option is the same as above however the destination URL will always be displayed in the address bar of the browser.

Framed web-forwarding

The destination URL will be replaced by traffordangling.com

Non-framed web-forwarding
The destination URL will remain in the browser's address bar.

i went for this last choice, it was a guess cos i haven't a clue but it sounded about right

did i do good? please say yes . . . .

[trafford]

sorry i forgot to add that all i want to do is to forward people to our .co.uk address if they type in .com.

dave

[swardell]

Non-framed web-forwarding
The destination URL will remain in the browser's address bar.

should do the job perfectly well, forward your domain.com to your domain.co.uk

[trafford]

many thanks . . . . . makes a refreshing change to get it right lol

[trafford]

sadly my elation was a bit premature . . . .

hasn't worked and it isn't pointing to the .co.uk address, as we are hosted by Actinic can anyone tell me if i have to add the .com domain in the plesk control panel?

or should i have selected a different option in 123-reg?

thank you

dave

[Mike Hughes]

Hi Dave,

That option should work. Did you set up the destination url in 123-reg?

Mike

[trafford]

yes mike i did exactly as here

URL to forward website for traffordangling.com to:
http://www.traffordangling.co.uk/

[Mike Hughes]

Odd because I just tried it with a domain of my own and it's pretty instantaneous. I did use the full http://www.etc.co.uk as the destination address just as you did.

I wonder why your's isn't working.

Mike

Edit: I just checked your headers and there's no sign of any forwarding. All I get is

#1 Server Response: http://www.traffordangling.com/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:47:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:46:55 GMT
ETag: "17a8797-ee7-1743adc0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3815
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Whereas on mine I get

#1 Server Response: http://www.redirected.co.uk/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:48:24 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Location: http://www.destination.co.uk
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
Redirect Target: http://www.destination.co.uk

#2 Server Response: http://www.destination.co.uk
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:48:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:35:49 GMT
ETag: "890a0606-7f0d-4b30f565"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 32525
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

[trafford]

aaahhh could that be the problem? in 123-reg it says currently managing
traffordangling.com and not www.trafford. . . . . . ???

[Mike Hughes]

There doesn't seem to be any forwarding on traffordangling.com without the www. either. (see my edits above about the header responses).

That's also what the 123-reg forwarding page says for me as well.

Let me try something else to check. Back in a minute.

Mike

Edit: OK. I'm back. this work for me. Try this http://www.3f-tackle.co.uk/ I can't think why it doesn't for you.

[Mike Hughes]

just in case, I tried a .com domain and that works as well.

http://www.3f-tackle.com

All I can suggest is that you re-enter the destination address and check your spellings. It all seems to work for me.

Mike

[trafford]

thanks for trying mike, i've tried pointing it at folders and all sorts . . . . can't seem to get any joy so i've filed a support question and asked them to look into it for me . . . . saves me biting the desk . . . . .

dave

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

I had to set-up web forwarding with 123-reg yesterday and was advised on the other forum to reset the nameservers to the default 123-reg nameservers as they were pointing to the nameservers of my hosting.

I changed the name servers to:
ns.123-reg.co.uk
ns2.123-reg.co.uk

and also went to 'Manage DNS' and clicked on 'Reset DNS to default'
by the next morning web forwarding was working perfectly.

[trafford]

who is it you use for hosting though? we're using actinic hosting and as i understand it they don't use name servers, i'll give it a go by all means but i just don't want to make it any worse than it is lol

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

If you want to try making any changes make a note of the settings before hand so you can change back after.

I use Clook Internet for hosting and not actinic hosting.