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Update On: 23 Jul 2021How can I Redirect URLs in cPanel

Login your cpanel
1. Click the Redirects key on the front page under the “domains”
2. Enter the address of the web page to move in the first field.
3. Enter the redirection address in the following field. (this can be a subdomain
and maybe listed as a register on the home page).
4. Choose one of the following choices in the list:
*Temporary or *permanent
5. Click the Add button.
Redirect URLs in cPanel Servers

Redirect Examples using .htaccess

To redirect an entire site to a new domain:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new-domain.com

The following performs a 301 redirect based on the clients IP address, this could be used for banning IP addresses.

Banning an IP Address using ReWrite

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^(A\.B\.C\.D)$
RewriteRule ^/* http://www.yourdomain.com/access-denied.html [L]

To redirect a folder and all of the pages or files contained within it to another page or domain.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^foldername/* http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

Domain redirect

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Image Hotlink protection and redirect

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yourdomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://domain.com/hot-link.gif [L]

PHP 301 Redirect

Insert the following in your index page.

ASP 301 Redirect

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader='Location','http://www.mysite.com/'
%>

Force SSL/https redirect

Redirect the user to secure connection (https://) can be accomplished with a .htaccess file containing the following lines:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

In case you wish to force HTTPS for a particular folder you can use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} somefolder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/somefolder/$1 [R,L]

The .htaccess file should be placed in the folder where you need to force HTTPS.

HTML Redirect