Custom DNS and URL redirection for your domain
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Founder & CTO
Effective February 2022, redirects are available for custom domains only.
The custom DNS and URL redirection features have now been released to production. Some of the things you can now do:
- Use your file storage area to publish files as a website, either in
your own domain if configured through the Options -> Virtual
Domains screen, or to
http://yourusername.fastmail.fm (docs).
Just login to your account and go to the Options ->
Websites/Redirects screen - Use your file storage area to publish a directory of photos as a
photo gallery either in your own domain, or to
http://yourusername.fastmail.fm (docs) - Change the DNS for your domain to point to other servers. For
instance, make http://blog.yourdomain.com point directly to a
blogging
service,
or http://wiki.yourdomain.com point to a wiki service, or
http://mail.yourdomain.com point straight to the FastMail login
screen (actually this is already the default for all virtual domains
who use the DNS at FastMail). Just login to your account and go to
the Options -> Custom DNS screen - Maybe the service you want doesn’t support domain mappings, so just
use a redirect instead to redirect users who go to
http://blog.yourdomain.com to
http://yourblogname.yourbloggingservice.com. You can even “cloak”
the redirect so people still see the URL
http://blog.yourdomain.com rather than
http://yourblogname.yourbloggingservice.com. Just login to your
account and go to the Options -> Websites/Redirects screen
and in the Create Website section at the bottom, make sure you
choose Redirect to external site or Cloaked redirect in the
Pushlish as section
(docs).
You can even do this for your FastMail username, so
http://blog.yourusername.fastmail.fm can be redirected to your
blogging service
These new features now provide enough DNS and URL management features that there should be no need to use a service like zoneedit anymore, it can all be controlled from within FastMail. For discussions on these features, please see this forum thread: