Domain resolution query

Turbo-G · 26 Aug 2011 at 20:58

Hi,
Wondered if you could help me out. I have 2 domains, one of which is my main site (domain1.com), the second being a related domain (domain2.com). I want to use the secondary domain to resolve directly to a particular page on my main site.

Am I right in thinking I need to create a custom DNS entry on my secondary domain, e.g. www.domain2.com -> CNAME = domain1.com/mypage.

Cheers.

Turbo-G · 26 Aug 2011 at 23:49

Sorry, to re-iterate as I weren't clear in my first post. I actually want www.domain2.com to resolve to www.domain1.com/mypage but remain in the URL as www.domain2.com/mypage.

Would this be possible?

Turbo-G · 27 Aug 2011 at 01:47

Am I right in thinking that it would be better from an SEO perspective for domain2.com to 301 redirect to domain1.com/mypage?

If so, presumably I would create an entry in the .htaccess file on the secondary host, e.g. "Redirect permanent / http://domain1.com/mypage" ?

Problem is, the secondary domain doesn't have hosting. So what would I do, change the name servers for the secondary domain to target my primary domain name servers and then create some kind of rule in the index of domain 1? Sorry for the annoying questions.

Turbo-G · 28 Aug 2011 at 15:29

OK, been thinking further about this.

Surely I just need to create a new DNS entry on domain2 so that "domain2.com" has a CNAME entry of "domain1.com" ? Can I go as far as adding a specific URI to the CNAME record, e.g. "domain1.com/mypage" ?

Thanks