Redirecting my website internally to an external website

Anthony 21 Reputation points
2020-11-27T06:18:28.777+00:00

Hello (before I start I should mention I have no way of putting this thread in the DNS forum, I cannot find the forum),

I've been trying to do this for a few days with no success and I must be missing a step.

My internal domain is abc.com

My external domain is also abc.com

In the past in order to get my website to work I had a DNS pointer that said www point to my external website IP. It worked fine

I have to now point my website to a different site, abc.com redirects to xyz.com

Externally, that works fine, internally however I can't make it work.

I tried putting the IP of the new site as a new DNS record, I tried a CNAME that was abc = xyz.com that didn't work

I tried to do it via IIS where I put http redirects, that also failed.

Can someone help me out, maybe explain to me what I'm doing wrong

Thanks !

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  1. Candy Luo 12,661 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-11-27T09:34:05.023+00:00

    Hi ,

    Externally, that works fine, internally however I can't make it work.

    What's the exact error message when you cannot browse internally?

    Also run ipconfig /flushdns to clear DNS cache.

    Check if the following link is helpful with you:

    Windows hosts: how can I redirect HTTPS site?

    Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

    For website redirecting related question, if you want to use IIS to do it, please have this asked in IIS forum for better answers.

    Here is the link:

    https://forums.iis.net/

    Best Regards,

    Candy

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  2. Anthony 21 Reputation points
    2020-11-27T15:25:18.833+00:00

    When I change the DNS from an A record (which I had before pointing to my old site) to a CNAME which reads
    www.abc.com go towards www.xyz.com
    I do a flushdns / registerdns and then try to go to the site

    If I do http://www.abc.com it redirects to https://www.abc.com and it gives me a (continue to this site not recommended)
    When I click on connect I then receive a HTTP 404 Webpage cannot be found

    Any ideas?

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  3. Anthony 21 Reputation points
    2020-11-29T05:07:17.813+00:00

    Anyone have any ideas?

  4. Anthony Tropiano 6 Reputation points
    2020-12-09T05:54:02.547+00:00

    I must admit,
    learn.microsoft.com is not a very user friendly platform.
    At the moment I have no idea how I can put this question in the IIS forum as there doesn't seem to be any forums to post in. I do not know what forum I am posting in now.
    Some guidance would be appreciated.
    Thanks!