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Joomla Redirect

Okay we are moving our current site to Joomla.

We have redirects currently:
www.oursite.com/mail to https://mail.company.com/owa

This redirect is so users don't have to remember this diffrent company's url to access website.
Therefore, there is no page "/mail"
How do i accomplish this on joomla I have installed JeDJ and test before i go live?

Ankit_J_P

ASKER

ReDJ installed for redirect. I am new to Joomla and don't know how to redirect joomla to a different url when someone types www.company.com/mail

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TonyReba

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Ankit_J_P

ASKER

yes

TonyReba

The only other suggestion is to write your redirect page in the htaccess file

htaccess Redirect
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1719982

Ankit_J_P

ASKER

I guess what I don't understand how joomla works. All pages are articles so do i need to create "mail" article to redirect www.mycompany.com/mail to a www.xzy.com/abc

TonyReba

yes you can do that on an article or create an external link to mail.mycompany.com

Ankit_J_P

ASKER

How do i point www.mycompany.com/mail (this page not created this for user to type and it will redirect to)-------> to -----> https://anewsite.com

How do i do this in Joomla

teomcam

You can do it by editing htaccess using following code

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newwebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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SWTHOMAS

This is generally something that should be configured in DNS. This can be very easy to configure depending on how your website is being hosted.

Are you using a hosting service, and if so, which hosting company?

I can see you want to setup a redirect to your exchange web access site. I would not suggest editing htaccess file, especially since the solution can be much similar than editing the htaccess file.