: GoDaddy URL redirect won't work with affixed www I have a mydomain.com that I recently redirected to my-new-domain.com using the forward option 301 in GoDaddy. It is working fine when I typed

@Courtney195

I fixed this issue like this.After adding forwarding from old domain to my new domain new-domain.com. I added one Subdomain forwarding. For that put 'www' in subdomain name and forward to new-domain.com

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@Alves908

forward option 301 in GoDaddy


I assume this is the Forwarding without masking option as detailed on the GoDaddy support page? In which case, they do state part way down that page:


If you want your visitors to be able to go to your domain name with or without the www prefix, you need to forward your domain name to use

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@Angie530

You need to create a cname record for www pointing to your main A record. It looks like the website unavailable may be coming because you are missing a cname for WWW in your godaddy dns records.

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@Ann8826881

I have am not too familiar with the GoDaddy option except that we get this question from time to time. It seems this option is somewhat limited. I cannot answer to GoDaddy, but I can offer this.

You can create a blank site with your web host and use .htaccess (assuming Apache) to redirect both mydomain.com and mydomain.com to my-new-domain.com.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ my-new-domain.com/ [R=301,L]


This is a basic example that should work. You can change my-new-domain.com to my-new-domain.com if this is what you prefer. I would recommend creating an index.html as a security measure just in case.

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