NS1 provides basic support for forwarding your domain. Unfortunately it's missing important features like HTTPS & Analytics.
When the redirect is setup at NS1, no SSL certificate is installed on the domain. This results in SSL errors when visiting the domain via HTTPS.
redirect.pizza automatically installs & manages a SSL certificate and makes sure it never expires. 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 NS1 '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 NS1
To allow redirecting via redirect.pizza, we need to make a one-time DNS change at NS1. Login with your NS1 credentials. From the menu click on 'DNS'.
From this screen click on your domain.
Step 4: Changing the DNS
We are now ready to change the DNS.
Before adding the correct DNS records, make sure any existing A record for 'www' and '@' / root are removed. All other records may remain intact.
When you've successfully deleted the records named above, add the following records:
- Record with Type 'A' on root level (leave name field empty) and answer '89.106.200.1'
- Record with Type 'CNAME' name 'www' and answer 'edge.redirect.pizza.'
Below are two screenshots of how your records should look like:
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, a SSL certificate will be automatically requested & installed.
Closing
That's it! You've succesfully setup redirect.pizza with NS1. The domain now has full HTTPS support and is redirecting via redirect.pizza.
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