Confused about pointers etc.

[snowweb]

Hi, I thought I understood until I saw a check box in the create domain pointer page, saying 'Create as an alias'. What's confusing me is I'm wondering what it would create it as if I don't check that box?!?

A customer has oralclinic.net which they have using for a couple of years now and now they want to change their domain to oralconfidence.com, but I suggested they ran the old domain alongside for a year until everyone knows the new address.

I want to get the changeover correct as I want to try to keep the domain out of the google sandbox if possible, I would also like them to be able to login to webmail using either domain.

What would be the safest way to accomplish this please?

Regards, peter

 

[nobaloney]

If you do not check Create as an alias then DirectAdmin will use pointers. In other words typing in the new URL will result in a redirect to the old URL. Email will NOT be available under the new URL and email addresses under the new domain name won't work.

Based on the fact that you're changing to the new domain name, the way I would do it (in fact the way I have done it for clients) is to rename the existing site to the new domain and create an alias for the old domain name.

Jeff

 

[snowweb]

Cheers Jeff, cleared my confusion and worked a treat.

Thanks buddy.