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Why redirect?<br />
1) You're working for a web-hosting company and your client has all the top domains and wants to point his .net/.org domain to .com.  You need to redirect .net/.org to his .com page.<br />
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2) You're working for a web-hosting company which provides "DNS Parking" with redirection service. Client wants to get a domain and redirect to his existing geocities homepage, you need to redirect to his geocities homepage.<br />
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Hardway:<br />
You as an system administrator create his account as usual (with the hard way or by using some script). You created 3 accounts:<br />

<ul>
<li>example.com</li>
<li>example.net</li>
<li>example.org</li>
</ul>

Redirect .net/org to .com with Javascript/PHP on the index page.<br />
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Easyway:<br />
In your httpd.conf file or vhost.conf if you use Include, add in the Redirect directive:<br />
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<pre>
&#60;VirtualHost *&#62;
        ServerAdmin user@example.org
        DocumentRoot /usr/vhost/example.org/httpdocs/
        RedirectPermanent / "http://www.example.com"
        ServerName www.example.org
        ServerAlias www.example.org example.org
&#60;/VirtualHost&#62;
</pre>

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(You need  mod_alias module loaded before you can use the Redirect directive)