Megan — Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:04:32 +0000

I know, old topic. Something needs to be done about this. I've been duitifully checking my old bookmark almost every day for the past two weeks but nothing has been happening, so I assumed that you guys were having some problems and kept checking.

I didn't realize it had been that long! You could have at least sent out an e-mail saying that the forum is back. I got a couple about the switch over but nothing to tell me that it was working again

Did anybody miss me? Yeah, right... I didn't think so.

werehere — Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:35:27 +0000

No, my old bookmark:

http://www.webmaster-forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

goes to a plain old 404 page with a link to:

http://www.webmaster-forums.com

Surely that is not as good as directing me automatically to the new forum home, which is where I wanted to be?

Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:31:14 +0000

The current 404-page shows a link to the new start-page, what is so difficult about just changing bookmarks like I did?

werehere — Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:52:10 +0000

Redirecting just Ultimate.cgi is not smart. A lot of people have forumdisplays bookmarked, so the best is to delete the cgi scripts completely and then make a simple custom 404 for that folder and redirect all requests for any of the scripts to the new forum home page. Same goes for your whole UBB html directories as well.

Sat, 01 Jul 2000 21:32:54 +0000

Or.. You could just use .htaccess and put a redirect line.

Redirect /cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi http://www.webmaster-forums/forums/index.php

Justin S — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:55:49 +0000

You can use the following CGI script...

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Location: [url]http://216.10.4.112/forums/index.php\n\n";[/url]