Redirecting subdomains to other than domain or IP address?

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  danielmaurer08 · Member · Nov 9, 2016 at 1:39 pm

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  We own the domain headsoptics.com and will use that for our brand new WP site. When using the DNS settings in WP I can map subdomains with CNAME or A records to other domain or IP addresses. But how do I do if I have subdomains which I want to just re-direct to other external web pages?
  E.g I want to redirect subdomain.headsoptics.com to http://www.prooptics.com/resource.html

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  kokkieh · Staff · Nov 10, 2016 at 10:31 am

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  Hi there,

  It’s not possible to redirect subdomains to specific paths on WordPress.com. That’s because it’s not possible to do this via DNS.

  To redirect a subdomain in that way you need to edit the .httaccess file to add a rewrite rule which basically overrides the DNS setting for the subdomain, and we don’t have any access to those files on WordPress.com.

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  danielmaurer08 · Member · Nov 10, 2016 at 3:27 pm

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  Thanks a lot for a swift and clear answer!