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Unable to Access Forwarded Website

"Forwarded" domain unreachable. Users get "Page Can't Be Displayed" when trying to access website forwarded using GoDaddy to another domain. forward is a "permanent (301)" and set for "forward only" (No Masking). SonicWALL firewall with all Security Services disabled still cannot access. Other sites with similar FW can access site successfully.

David Favor

Provide your redirect source + target for testing.

Tip: Never, ever, ever use a 301 for this, as 301s cache in visitor browsers forever, so if you must change the redirect target, then previous visitors will never see your change, creating many problems.

Tip: Remove any hardware like SonicWall. Get your redirect working correctly with no hardware, then you can always add in hardware later. This will tell you if there's a hardware problem or actual site config problem.

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Thanks for the tip. I've set it back to a "temporary" (302), but that was not working before which is why i changed it. I don't have the code as I'm redirecting to a domain hosted elsewhere. Essentially i'm forwarding "easydomain.com to ConfusingDomain/subdir/subdir to make it easier for the end user.

David Johnson, CD

why don't you do it in DNS
cname easydomain.com confusingdomain.xxx

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Thanks, but I don't think a CNAME will support a sub-directory of the target domain.

David Johnson, CD

in your webserver you add the records and the virtual directory

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thanks for your response. We do not manage the webservers, only the internal network. Domain is using GoDaddy forwarding.

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David Favor

Aside: I wrestled with hardware firewalls for years.

Once I switched over to just using iptables + Tarpit Logic never had a wasted minute since, wrestling with oddball firewall oddities.