How to redirect siteA to siteB with A or CNAME records

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Peter Coulton picture Peter Coulton · Aug 19, 2008 · Viewed 197.4k times · Source

I have 2 hosts and I would like to point a subdomain on host one to a subdomain on host two:

subdomain.hostone.com --> subdomain.hosttwo.com

I added a CNAME record to host one that points to subdomain.hosttwo.com but all I get is a '400 Bad Request' Error.

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Answer

Eric Z Beard picture Eric Z Beard · Aug 19, 2008

Try changing it to "subdomain -> subdomain.hosttwo.com"

The CNAME is an alias for a certain domain, so when you go to the control panel for hostone.com, you shouldn't have to enter the whole name into the CNAME alias.

As far as the error you are getting, can you log onto subdomain.hostwo.com and check the logs?

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