Powered By Network Solutions: WebsiteBuilder - How to change your domain name with a 301 redirect - Video

To use a different domain name for your website, you need to redirect your old domain to your new domain. However, this is a bit challenging if you are one of our customers who has a website through us but do not have a hosting account. 

Here's what you need to do: 

1. Download and install an FTP client, like Filezilla. You will need this to access your hosting files.
2. To connect to the server, make sure you have your FTP username and password ready. 
3. Once we have access to your hosting files, you need to download and edit your .htaccess file. This modification will instruct your rewrite engine to go to the new domain instead of the old domain.  
4. After editing, you need to upload this file and overwrite the existing .htaccess file.

Please watch this video for the complete walkthrough:

Add the following code snippets into your .htaccess file: 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OLDDOMAIN.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.OLDDOMAIN.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://NEWDOMAIN.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Change the word "OLDDOMAIN" to the old domain name you want to redirect to, and change the "NEWDOMAIN" to the new domain name it is redirecting to.