Jaiem — Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:55:00 +0000

What happens when the old ISP deletes your account? Won't the redirect go away?

For that matter, if you've moved your domain to another company why doesn't your URL point to the new company?

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Rob Pengelly — Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:17:00 +0000

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Brian Farkas — Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:12:00 +0000

If your old ISP was unix and ran Apache (which a lot of hosts do) you can make a .htaccess file in the main HTML directory with one line in it:

code:

Redirect /  http://www.yoursite.com 
[/code]

Replace yoursite.com with the new URL to your site and it will redirect seamlessly

[This message has been edited by Brian Farkas (edited 09 January 2000).]

Sun, 09 Jan 2000 23:48:00 +0000

I think your best bet would be to put up a page saying that the site had moved (this way, users that have bookmarked your site know that they need to change the bookmark) and setup a meta redirect tag that sends them to the new site after like ten seconds. The code for the meta tag would look like:

code:

<meta http-equiv=REFRESH content="8;URL=http://www.newdomain.com">[/code]

Replace the "8" with the number of seconds you would like the page to wait before redirecting and "http://www.newdomain.com" with the location of the new site.

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