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Asked: 2026-06-07T08:42:03+00:00

I want to forward a url so that if you type www.example.com in the

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I want to forward a url so that if you type http://www.example.com in the address bar, you are forwarded to http://www.test.com/test.php.

What I have done is added a cname record to my zone file.

So I have:

www  IN CNAME www.test.com/test.php.

This isn’t getting the job done.

I have read quite a bit and am still having trouble grasping how the whole dns process works. My understanding is that a CNAME will just cause your domain to use another domains zone file. If this is the case, then a CNAME wouldn’t be what I am looking for.

If anybody could point me in the right direction, or give me a brief overview of the process in url forwarding, it would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You confuse DNS with URL forwarding. All you may have in a zone file is 

    www.example.com.  IN CNAME www.test.com.

    www.test.com is a domain name, www.test.com/test.php is a URL.

    having this CNAME have exactly same effect as having an “A” record for http://www.example.com pointing to the same IP address as http://www.test.com – youyr browser will first look at this CNAME, then get an IP address for http://www.example.com, then browser will send to that IP address, HTTP request for http://www.example.com (!).

    URL forwarding done on a webserver, on http://www.test.com webserver you may define a virtual host http://www.example.com (NOT http://www.test.com), which may run your test.php or redirect from / to /test.php.

    Or on http://www.example.com webserver you may setup a HTTP 303 redirect from http://www.example.com to http://www.test.com/test.php and then you don’t use a CNAME.

    Though somewhat unordered but hope it helps.

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