Re-Directing a custom domain name to your Concierge website or Booking Engine
Posted by Jeff Tweddale on 09 Apr 2019 11:54 AM
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You may have a website domain name you wish to promote that is not the 'base URL' for your Concierge site, which will usually be something like: https://Hotel.BookingCenter.com/demo
Instead, you may want to market a name such as: www.myconcierge.com so that it re-directs automatically to https://Hotel.BookingCenter.com/demo.
Or if you are in need of a temporary website for your domain while you build out a new hotel website (or need to get a new merchant account established with pictures of your property and policies showing what you are representing), you can use our Booking Engine #02 template that can work as a temporary web site hosted at: https://book.bookingcenter.com/02/?site=MYPMSDO where you replace the Site ID: MYPMSDO with your BookingCenter Site ID. To do this, you will need access to your website hosting platform (often referred to as a 'dashboard') and have someone place a 301 Re-Direct at the root level of the new domain name you wish to use. If this will become a permanent change, so we recommend the 301. Directions for actually issuing a 301 Re-Direct this can be found anywhere on the internet, such as here. If it is temporary, such as using our Booking Engine template 02 for your 'website', do not use a 301, rather use a 302 re-direct for short term purposes.
Here's a basic example of how to do it:
All you need to know is the 'Concierge' URL of your particular MyGuest implementation, and voila! A user who types in www.myconcierge.com will be sent to: https://Hotel.BookingCenter.com/demo or a user who visits will be re-directed to this page.
* Note that the 4 images that the #02 Booking Engine template uses are the ones on the 'Images' page in the Setup area called: Property, Restaurant, Conference, and Exterior. Don't worry that the image you wish to place isn't actually a 'restaurant', just use these image locations to put the image you want in the 4 spots on that #02 template. We have more detail on how the Booking Engine templates work - and be customized - are at: https://docs.bookingcenter.com/display/MYPMS/Booking+Engine.
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