New service is available in our customers' Web Hosing Control Panel - URL Redirection, as of today! It allows customers to set up a redirection of any desired URL hosted on our servers to another URL - hosted with us or on a remote server. The new functionality has been incorporated in the former 'Password Protected Areas' section of the Control Panel, presently named - URL Protect & Redirect.

Both beginners and advanced users can take advantage of the new functionality. The 'URL Redirect' tool has a regular redirection option and a more advanced one (allowing redirection of chosen items only - from a given URL - matching defined criteria).

The service is very easy to set up. Customers need to choose first the type of redirection: regular - Redirect Directive, or defined - RedirectMatch Directive, then select a domain or a sub domain hosted with us from the dropdown available and enter the correct directory path (URL) of the web folder that is to be redirected. Very important part of the service is choosing a HTTP Status code - more information about the different codes follows below and is also included in the 'Help' section. After the customer has selected the desired URL path to be redirected and its HTTP status code, he/or she needs to type in the URL which the web folder will be redirected to and submit the form. If the customer has chosen to use the 'RedirectMatch' service, he/or she will need to fill in one more field - 'Regular Expression'. This is exactly the place where the customer will have to define the specific conditions that must be matched for the redirection to be performed - the so called 'regular expressions'. For example, the customer can specify that only files with .gif extension from the selected URL (web folder) should be redirected to the new URL. More details on how to enter the specifications can be found in the attached tooltip.