First, Let’s check what Alias or Domain Aliasing is and why you would need it.
Domain Aliasing helps you to forward a new domain to your original domain.
For example, setting up newdomain.com as an Alias of olddomain.com will allow you to load the content of olddomain.com but the URL in the browser will remain newdomain.com until you click any link on the page.
This process is also known as domain masking, so if you read about it somewhere, you’ll know what it is!
Please keep in mind that in some cases depending on the website and its rules, setting up an Alias may not work as expected. If this is the case for you please don’t hesitate to contact our support team which will gladly assist you.
So let’s check how you can set up an Alias with us:
Step 1. Log in to your WPX account
You can log in to your WPX account here.
Step 2. Navigate to your hosting plan
You can either find your hosting service through the navigation menu or within your dashboard. Once you log in to your WPX account select My Services (1) → WordPress Hosting (2).
Then you will see all of your hosting services with us. When you find the plan that you want to manage, you need to select the orange button Manage service.
Step 3. Creating an Alias for the new domain from the panel
You would need to first add the new domain as an Alias.
For that to happen, you would need to navigate to Manage Websites (1), and then select Add New Website (2) option to create it.
From there you will need to input the specific details:
- Type – Alias of
- Select a domain – the domain that you want to set an Alias for (it must be already added to your account)
- Domain name – here you have to type the new domain that you want to be forwarded to your old domain.
- An optional setting for having an Email with the Alias
Once you have added the needed information, you can proceed with selecting Create Alias.
A few important notes on Domain Aliasing:
- An Aliased domain cannot have an SSL Certificate installed just for the alias site. If you need your Alias to have an active SSL, you need to install it manually as a custom SSL certificate. Add the specific Alias to the add more options under Custom when installing an SSL certificate on the site that the alias is added to.
- In order for the Alias to work, you must point the Aliased domain (newdomain.com) to the same nameservers (or at least the same A Record) as the original domain (olddomain.com).
- Aliases CANNOT be used to point to specific IP addresses or to point to a specific page on another domain.
- An Alias IS NOT the same as a 301 redirect; if you need to redirect a domain to another using a 301 redirect, this is not the correct way to do it.
- The Aliased domain CAN have a separate mailbox.
- If you want to set up Multisite WP Installation, the extra domains must be set as Aliases.
- Aliases do NOT consume a hosting slot in your account.
If you get stuck with anything discussed on this page, please get in touch with the WPX Support Team via live chat (use the bottom right-hand widget) and they will respond and help within 30 seconds or less.