301 redirect with DNS?

[GregDixson]

Quick question.

Is it possible to 301 redirect a non-www to www. (properly in terms of SEO) with DNS (C Name, A name, or other)

..have searched around and found conflicting information. Would like to know a definite answer.

I usually implement all 301 redirects with htaccess. However have a client situation where we only have access to the CMS, but which does have DNS settings.

thanks in advance,

Greg

[xown]

Hi Greg

Its not possible.

The closest thing you can get is using Cloudflare DNS and create a page-rule, that handles the redirect based on your settings. This saves a trip to your server, however its not a real DNS redirect since its just another server doing a redirect instead.

Hope it makes sense

[GregDixson]

Thanks, yea didn't think it would be.