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.

If you’re looking for a vanity URL, please see the goUW URL-shortening service for the UW-Madison campus community.
If you’re canceling your account, please see Web Hosting - Inactivating Your Account or Additional Domain.

***We maintain redirects for a minimum of one year and can continue to host them indefinitely***

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.

Option 4: Customers who will require multiple redirects or future updates to redirects can request a free tier static HTML bronze account, and self-service redirects via an Apache .htaccess configuration file.

Specific rules can be crafted the .htaccess file to guide traffic from old or temporary URLs to new destinations.

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