Mijndomein hooks you up with basic support when you want to forward your domain. But, it's missing some important features, like HTTPS and Analytics.
When you set up your redirect at Mijndomein, you still have to manage SSL certificates yourself if you want your website to be secure. Without proper SSL management, errors will turn up when visiting the domain via HTTPS.
So, how do you secure your website with HTTPS in Mijndomein?
Easy, with redirect.pizza. We handle the SSL certificates for your site without any effort from your side. We ensure they’ll be up to date. And there's more good stuff. Redirecting your apex domain to the www. version, for instance, just takes a few clicks.
How to set this up? We’ll guide you through the steps with this walkthrough, so let’s get started!
Step 1: Create a redirect.pizza account
Get started today by creating an account: https://redirect.pizza/register.
Step 2: Add your domain to redirect.pizza
Add your domain you wish to redirect. For our example, we have a domain with Mijndomein 'redirect-pizza-forward.xyz'. Add the domain to the 'Source URL' field. We recommend adding www & the apex (non-www).
You see the DNS 'checking' as the detected & required values are different.
Step 3: Navigate to Mijndomein
To allow redirecting via redirect.pizza, we need to make a DNS change at Mijndomein.
Login with your Mijndomein credentials and from 'Mijn producten' click on 'Beheren' next to your domain
Then click on 'DNS instellen'.
Step 4: Changing the DNS
We are now ready to change the DNS. You will probably see a screen that looks something like this:
Before adding the correct DNS records, make sure any existing A, AAAA or CNAME record for 'www' and '@' are removed. All other records may remain intact.
Then add the following records.
- Record with Type 'A', leave the Name empty and Value '89.106.200.1'
- Record with Type 'CNAME' Name 'www' and Value 'edge.redirect.pizza.'
Your screen should now look like this:
Step 4: DNS verification in redirect.pizza
The DNS changes have been made! This takes some time before the internet picks up these changes. In most cases, it should be done within a few hours, depending on the TTL set on those records.
redirect.pizza will automatically keep checking the DNS records. If it's detected to be correct, an SSL certificate will be automatically requested & installed.
Closing:redirect.pizza is now set up with automatic HTTPS!
All done! You've successfully set up redirect.pizza with Mijndomein. The domain now has full HTTPS support and is redirecting via redirect.pizza. So sit back and relax. You’ll never have to worry about the security of your pages again. Because this means that all URLs are automatically redirected to the HTTPS version of your website. You don't have to worry about any SSL certificates either, as we’ll ensure that they are automatically renewed. This is all part of our Automatic HTTPS feature.
Optional: redirect all pages to the apex or www. version of your website.
Once you’re all set, make sure to think about how you can get the most out of our service! You can, for instance, redirect all your pages from your apex domain (also called naked or root domain) to the www. version of your domain. (Wonder why you should? Take a look at our use case!). It also works the other way. If you want to redirect all your pages from the www. version to your apex domain, you’ll be good to go in just a few clicks! (Check our support page for more details).
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