{"id":228,"date":"2018-03-22T02:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domainsplus.uk\/domains\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2018-03-29T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:30:41","slug":"domain-mapping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/domainsplus.uk\/domains\/domain-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Domain mapping allows you to point multiple domains to your main website (primary domain<\/em>). For example, you can map your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> and your-website.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> to your primary domain yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong>. Making a change to your primary domain will automatically update your mapped domains, so there\u2019s no need to worry about updating the content or design of multiple websites.<\/p>\n

Visitors will continue to see your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> and your-website.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> addresses in their browser to avoid confusion, but all the same content on your primary domain will be visible to them.For example, typing http:\/\/your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> will load the content at http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong>, or http:\/\/your-site.co.uk\/contact.html<\/em><\/strong> would load http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk\/contact.html<\/em><\/strong> if the domain had existing files and folders prior to the domain mapping.<\/p>\n

Once at the primary domain website, any links clicked within your web pages that are using the full address (i.e. http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk\/contact.html<\/em><\/strong>) will switch over to the primary domain and all content will load from http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> as normal. If your primary domain\u2019s page links are configured within your website using just the page filenames (i.e. contact.html<\/em><\/strong> and not using the full address) then the mapped domain will continue to appear in the web browser\u2019s address bar.<\/p>\n

Please note that domain mapping cannot map directly onto a sub-domain<\/em><\/strong> or a specific folder on a website. Domains can only be mapped onto the root of the domain and its contents (i.e. your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> mapped to yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong>, not<\/strong><\/em> your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> mapped to sub-domain<\/strong><\/em>.yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> or yoursite.co.uk\/<\/em><\/strong>folder<\/strong><\/em>\/).<\/p>\n

Mapped domains include the same email features as provided with your primary domain hosting package, including WebMail<\/strong>. To manage email (mailboxes, forwarding, email filtering, etc.) for a mapped domain, simply login to the Web Control Panel<\/strong> for the primary domain and the mapped domain will appear in a pull-down menu within the email settings pages.<\/p>\n

Domain Mapping Pricing & Details<\/strong>
\nIn order for domain mapping to work, both domains must be on our system. The main website (primary domain<\/em>) should be a web hosting account and the domain to be mapped should be added as a Domain Extra to either a new or existing domain with our domain service here at domainsplus.uk<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Web Forwarding<\/strong><\/p>\n

An alternative to domain mapping is web forwarding (or web redirect). This will allow http:\/\/your-site.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> (or any pre-set web page) to redirect completely onto the website at http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong> (or any pre-set web page). As soon as the redirect has occurred (which is seamless and instantaneous) then the domain and all content will appear from http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With web forwarding, you can create multiple redirect web addresses on the same domain, but each redirect can only forward onto one web address at a time.<\/p>\n

For example, http:\/\/your-site.co.uk\/products.html<\/em><\/strong> can redirect to http:\/\/yoursite.co.uk\/products.html<\/em><\/strong> or onto http:\/\/your-new-site.co.uk\/products.html<\/em><\/strong>, and http:\/\/your-site.co.uk\/gallery\/<\/em><\/strong> could redirect to http:\/\/your-new-site.co.uk\/photos\/<\/em><\/strong> or even http:\/\/your-site.co.uk\/gallery\/<\/em><\/strong> onto http:\/\/your-site.co.uk\/photos\/<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There are two different types of forwarding available: framed<\/strong> and non-framed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n