To have your domain-name linked to Congressus is of course of utmost importance. You want your members and future potential members to be directed to your association's website. In this article we will explain the process step-by-step.
If you do not have a domain-name yet we suggest registering one with the hosting provider of TransIP.
For e-mail (and more) we suggest you make use of Google Workspace for non-profits.
Are you using TransIP? Then you can follow the steps described in this article made for TransIP-customers.
Link your domain to your Congressus-website
Send a heads-up to Congressus Support to let us know you want to go live and on which domain. Contact us via chat or support@congressus.nl.
Log in to your hosting provider.
Go to the DNS-settings for your domain.
Check if there is already a CNAME-record for
www.You can remove this record.Create a new CNAME-record for
www.toredirect.congressus.nl.Make sure to set the TTL (time to live) as low as possible to ensure a quick transition.
Redirect visitors to www.<yourdomainnname.nl>
Your Congressus-website is only available via www.<yourdomainnname.nl>. Therefore, it is important to redirect visitors from <yourdomainname.nl> (without www.).
Through TransIP
Do you use TransIP as a hosting provider? We advise you to use their redirect service ('Doorstuurservice') in order to redirect all visitors for your domain to https://www.<domainname.nl>
Through other providers
Log in to your hosting provider.
Check if the configuration panel of your provider offers a redirect service. Send all visitors for
domainname.nltohttps://www.domainname.nl.No redirect service? Add a
.htaccess-file to the 'root' of your website at your hosting provider. Use the following content for this file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
Congratulations! Your website is live now!