How to assign multiple hostnames or IP addresses
Any live website should only be served via a single domain. Any other domains (e.g. my-website.com or mywebsite.co.uk) you own that are pointing to your website should redirect to a single domain. This is very important for SEO as each domain is seen as a unique site by google so the more domains you have pointing to a site without a redirect to the main domain will negatively affect your SEO.
Your uSkinned license will also only work for the main primary domain that has been assigned. You will see an invalid license message if your website is hit from a domain or IP address not included in your uSkinned license file. It is important you follow the steps below to avoid this happening.
Add your redirect rules to the web.config file of your website. In the following example, mywebsite.com is the main domain of your website.
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect to main domain" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="www.mywebsite.com" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="www.my-website.com" />
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="my-website.com" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://mywebsite.com/{R:0}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
If your website is served via https, change the action type above to:
<action type="Redirect" url="https://mywebsite.com/{R:0}" />
And then add the following rule:
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
</rule>
If your secure certificate has been assigned an IP address which can be directly used to access your website, you will also need to add the unique IP address assigned to your secure certificate to your conditions group.
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="YOUR IP ADDRESS" />
Using this approach your website will always be served via mywebsite.com no matter what domains or IP addresses are pointing to your website and your uSkinned domain license will always work.
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