Domain redirection and suspension

Question

Hi,

I have a site developed in ASP.NET and hosted on a windows server using shared windows hosting account at godaddy.

I developed a replica of my website in php and hosted my php site on a free hosting service (php, linux, mysql) and its working fine. This is on a shared subdomain. Example (mysite.freehostprovider.com)

Now I want to continue using the free hosting service. So I would like my site to be redirected from www.mysite.com to mysite.freehostprovider.com

Since I have not paid for Windows hosting. They have stopped hosting for my site. But my domain is valid till 2010. What do I need to do to see my website go live @ www.mysite.com

My free hosting provider supports redirection. I tried but wasn't successful.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Ideally you would CNAME www.mysite.com to mysite.freehostprovider.com, but a free hosting provider might not let you do that (they'll be using vhosts, so you can't just go ahead and do it).

You should probably give the redirection another go.

Answer 2

You need to enable forwarding or redirection from your domain registrar. If it is GoDaddy you are using then check out the "Forwarding a Domain" portion of this support article (page 4): http://help.godaddy.com/article/2227