Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Namecheap URL redirects take a while before going into effect

I just added a URL redirect record into my Namecheap domain, and at first it seemed that the redirect was not working; the new subdomain wasn't resolved. One of their help documents said that it can take 30 minutes for new records to start working, but I think I waited that long for no results. Eventually, though, it did start working.

If yours doesn't, and you're using the Advanced DNS tab (as opposed to the redirection section of the initial tab), make sure the subdomain part doesn't include the full domain. For example, when redirecting subsite.example.com, you would only put subsite in the host field.

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