topic Re: Other alternative Https redirection service in APIs & Integrations

Other alternative Https redirection service

chrissa0000 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:14:34 GMT

Hi guys!

We would want to use Https redirection service for our rootdomain example

http://mydomain.com (pointing to a redirect IP) > 301 redirects to > http://www.mydomain.com (hosted on HubSpot).

We currently use EasyRedir as suggested by this article https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/cos-general/root-domain-not-loading-https.

We would like to ask if there are still other alternative aside from EasyRedir that is cost effective. Does GoDaddy offer this kind of service? Thanks

Re: Other alternative Https redirection service

cbarley — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:59:15 GMT

Hey @chrissa0000! GoDaddy should have a forwarding service to forward your root domain to www. Here's a forum post I found on this: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9849/how-to-forward-non-www-to-www-using-godaddy-dns-manager

Is GoDaddy your DNS provider?

Re: Other alternative Https redirection service

chrissa0000 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:11:21 GMT

Yes @cbarley we use go daddy, do they do offer htis kind of service?. We purchased an SSL certificate before in GoDaddy so that we would not use EasyRedir and then GoDaddy advised us to request for Certificate Signing Request (CSR) from Hubspot which Hubspot didn't gave from us.

Re: Other alternative Https redirection service

cbarley — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:35:02 GMT

Hi @chrissa0000 , yes forwarding your root domain ==> www. subdomain should be possible within GoDaddy. You just need to follow the instructions here from GoDaddy: https://ph.godaddy.com/help/forward-a-domain-12123

Re: Other alternative Https redirection service

22Eighteen — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:20:16 GMT

If you redirect your https root to the subdomain www - and there isn't an SSL certificate applied to the root if anyone types in https://rootdomain.com they will likely get a browser security warning.

I think this article could be a solution.

https://medium.com/@ristinolla/redirect-root-domain-to-www-subdomain-with-ssl-enabled-using-aws-cloudfront-and-s3-f373c3d7f935

Re: Other alternative Https redirection service

Kmoloo — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:30:16 GMT

@cbarley - Sorry, this solution doesn't work as GoDaddy doesn't secure the root domain when you forward it to the HubSpot secured subdomain (www).

Best to use easyredir or cloudflare. You need Easyredir's professional plan at $39/mo. which is pretty cost-effective.