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Long time no post, been a long while since I made a post on here (I only just realised I joined this forum 15 years ago next month too ) but I do lurk from time to time and it’s good to see some of the old timers still active.
I am looking for some idiot proof advice on wildcard domains and an idiots guide explaining to me how to achieve the following.
Basically I have a domain name registered at 123-reg with my nameservers pointing to Fasthosts hosting (that’s where my site is hosted)
Can someone please explain to me how to achieve a ‘catch all traffic’ for anyone visiting a web address which doesn’t exist, and for that visitor to be redirected to the main homepage for anything that is typed in the form of a sub domain.
eg If xxxxxx.mydomain.co.uk or anything was typed which didn’t exist, the visitor would be sent to the home page of mydomain.co.uk
I have read about wildcard domains and setting up a dns entry with an A type entry of * and pointing that to an IP address, however everything I have tried doesn’t work.
Any advice on this would be truly appreciated as it is driving me mad, and I’m unsure if it’s an actual issue between having the domain registered one place and hosted at another place, or if I am doing something wrong.
Thank you
I am looking for some idiot proof advice on wildcard domains and an idiots guide explaining to me how to achieve the following.
Basically I have a domain name registered at 123-reg with my nameservers pointing to Fasthosts hosting (that’s where my site is hosted)
Can someone please explain to me how to achieve a ‘catch all traffic’ for anyone visiting a web address which doesn’t exist, and for that visitor to be redirected to the main homepage for anything that is typed in the form of a sub domain.
eg If xxxxxx.mydomain.co.uk or anything was typed which didn’t exist, the visitor would be sent to the home page of mydomain.co.uk
I have read about wildcard domains and setting up a dns entry with an A type entry of * and pointing that to an IP address, however everything I have tried doesn’t work.
Any advice on this would be truly appreciated as it is driving me mad, and I’m unsure if it’s an actual issue between having the domain registered one place and hosted at another place, or if I am doing something wrong.
Thank you