Primary vs secondary domain names

Hi folks.


We've got a heap of System Root URLs registered via our System Configuration screen. They point to a range of different sites on our Matrix server.



I want to register several new URLs there, all of which are to be pointed at the one, single new site.



My question is, is it possible to make one of these new URLs the "primary" URL for that site, as it were, and make the others "secondary" URLs so that when a user visits one of the "secondary" versions of a page's URL it will actually take them to the "primary" version?



I'm trying to avoid problems with analytics across multiple URLs for the same pages, etc.



Any advice you can give would be most appreciated. (And sorry if this has already been covered in any earlier topics I haven't spotted.)



Steve

MySource Matrix doesn't support this feature, but you can do it in two others ways.


You could create a site for each URL and make the home page a redirect page, sending them to the main site URL.



You could also do this outside of Matrix (in Apache) and not register the URLs in Matrix at all, thereby decreasing the size of the DB.

Most domain registration / hosting companies can do this for you at DNS level. We've got about 70 domains forwarding into a single site. They create a permanent 301 on the nameserver I think…


EDIT: Spelling! :expressionless:

Thank you Greg and Duncan for the information. I suspected this was the case but it's good to have it confirmed.


We'll explore some of the alternatives you suggest.



Steve