How to redirect subdomain to affiliate link?

by Jorge Vidaurre

Posted: 12 years ago 11 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

i have a subdomain on byethost.com and would like to redirect the subdomain to an affiliate link. Anyone know how to do this?

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Tim3 12 years ago

Originally Posted by 568129

i have a subdomain on byethost.com and would like to redirect the subdomain to an affiliate link. Anyone know how to do this?

Go to 'Redirects' in your cPanel and add you to/from links in there.
this should automatically add the necessaries to your .htaccess file.

Check to make sure it is re-directing. If it isn't open go to File Manager make sure you can see 'hidden files' open the ,htaccess file associated with the domain you are working with, and see if the redirection code is present, if it is at the bottom of code on the page cut and paste it in at the very top, make sure you don't add any spaces or extra lines. Click save and test again after clearing your browser cache.
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Adie 12 years ago

Log-in to your cpanel and click on "redirects". No need to edit any htaccess file. You can just paste your affiliate link there and save..
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- Tim3 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Adie
  
  Log-in to your cpanel and click on "redirects". No need to edit any htaccess file. You can just paste your affiliate link there and save..
  
  ...and supposing doing this doesn't work?
  
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Jorge Vidaurre 12 years ago

I went to the redirects sections and entered my affiliate link and it says The url you have entered appears to have invalid characters, please check and try again. how come it says that?
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  Has your link got any characters in it other than letters or numbers?
  
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edwinkoh 12 years ago

Just create a new index.htm file, put it into the sub domain.

In the index.htm file, put this code

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.your-url-here.com">

before </head>

This will automatically redirect your subdomain.

Hope this helps.
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Jorge Vidaurre 12 years ago

the affiliate link has equal sign and interrogation sign and forward slash.
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Deepak Media 12 years ago

You can upload a php redirect file in the file manager of your sub domain folder.

Here's the script for php redirect...

<?php

header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;

?>

Save it as index.php and upload to your sub domain folder.
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lordspace 12 years ago

So you've tried this in the .htaccess file
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heiniken15 12 years ago

You use .htaccess to redirects a link .
Search google with Keywork "redirects link .htacess" . You'll like it
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Jorge Vidaurre 12 years ago

i created a index file and the redirect works now
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