What will happen if I point two domains to the same site?

[The_Schmo]

Help!  In trying to change the site address from one site to another I now get 404 errors on the old site links.  I have tried creating a new site with the old address with a holding page but it is a mess.  What will happen if I point two sites to the same URL?

[PaulMathews]

@The_Schmo You can point multiple domains to a single site. It is fairly common for sites to have a primary domain and one or more secondary domains. For example, American Airlines made it faster and simpler to get to their website by using the primary domain of https://www.aa.com, however, their full business name (secondary) domain also gets you to their website: https://www.americanairlines.com. Notice that, in the latter case, not only does the domain forward to the American Airlines website, the url automatically resolves from the secondary domain to the primary.

Most registrars will allow you to forward a domain to a particular site address and you can usually choose domain masking so that the forwarded domain automatically resolves to the primary. Check your domain registrar instructions on how to forward a domain to a particular url and follow that for the domain that is currently generating the 404 error.

Here's how you do it for a Godaddy domain: https://www.godaddy.com/help/forward-my-domain-12123

[The_Schmo]

Hi Paul and thanks for your quick response. If I can be slightly more specific, what will happen if I change the Weebly settings 'Site Address' of Site B to the same address as Site A. Does B overwrite A or vice versa? Or does one forward to the other? Am I being stupid? (probably yes)

[PaulMathews]

@The_Schmo Ah, I see. You cannot use a domain on a site that already exists on another site for fairly obvious reasons. This would be equivalent to having two entirely different houses somehow located at exactly the same street address. If you wish to move a domain from one account site to another, you'll revert the domain on the site where it is currently active to its original, free Weebly third-tier domain (e.g., mywebsite.weebly.com). Then you'll change the domain on the new site to that desired domain.