Web Hosting - Website Redirects

DoIT’s Web Hosting service offers a free service to all UW-Madison customers who need to redirect a URL or domain to a new location.

Here are the redirect options:

Option 1: Redirect all requests for myolddomain.wisc.edu to an informational page explaining that the site has a new URL and instructing users to update their bookmarks or links. We recommend creating a new page in the Knowledge Base (KB) to which we can redirect the site.

Option 2: Automatically redirect all requests for any pages within myolddomain.wisc.edu/* to the home page of mynewdomain.wisc.edu

(for example, mynewdomain.wisc.edu/subsite/ or mynewdomain.wisc.edu/subsite/newpage.html).

Option 3: Automatically redirect all requests for myolddomain.wisc.edu/* and match the relative path to the page at mynewdomain.wisc.edu/*.

(for example, myolddomain.wisc.edu/subfolder/page.html will be redirected to mynewdomain.wisc.edu/subfolder/page.html.)

-- If you’re interested in implementing a redirect on your current website, please contact webhosting@doit.wisc.edu with the necessary details.



Keywords:
redirect, forward, bounce, inactivate, meta refresh, Apache, IIS, 302, 301, 404
Doc ID:
42357
Owned by:
Jake S. in DoIT Web Hosting
Created:
2014-07-30
Updated:
2025-07-28
Sites:
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