How do you use wildcards in Web Forwarding records? – UltraDNS Support

Wildcards can be setup to use single wildcard functionality or double wildcard functionality in Web Forwarding.

Single wildcard redirects anything matching the wildcard to a specific page:

From	To
http://www.sourcedomain.com/*	http://www.targetdomain.com/

This would redirect 'http://www.sourcedomain.com/example.html' to 'http://www.targetdomain.com/'.

Double wildcard functionality takes the portion matching the wildcard in the source URL and appends it in place of the wildcard in the target URL:

From	To
http://www.sourcedomain.com/*	http://www.targetdomain.com/*

This would redirect 'http://www.sourcedomain.com/example.html' to 'http://www.targetdomain.com/example.html'.

Here's another example:

From	To
http://www.sourcedomain.com/*	http://www.targetdomain.com/this/that/somethingelse/*

This would redirect 'http://www.sourcedomain.com/example.html' to 'http://www.targetdomain.com/this/that/somethingelse/example.html'.

Those examples involve wildcards set in the path of the URL. Wildcards can also be setup on a subdomain of a domain in your account or in the querystring of a URL.

Wildcard on a subdomain:

From	To
http://*.sourcedomain.com/	http://www.targetdomain.com/page.html

That would redirect 'http://undefinedsubdomain.sourcedomain.com/' to 'http://www.targetdomain.com/page.html'.

Wildcard on a querystring:

From	To
http://www.sourcedomain.com/whatever.aspx?*	http://www.targetdomain.com/somefolder/review.aspx?*

That would redirect 'http://www.sourcedomain.com/whatever.aspx?test' to 'http://www.targetdomain.com/somefolder/review.aspx?test'.

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