Rob Pengelly — Mon, 21 May 2001 02:48:16 +0000

Haven't posted here in a while, nor do I plan to, but I just implemented something similiar on my site.

I use my 404 page to redirect users. If someone, for instance goes to
http://www.ratemymullet.com/62
the 'missing.php' will be executed, and inside that file, I redirect the user to
http://www.ratemymullet.com/show.php?id=62

Eg:

<?
//missing.php
$REQUEST_URI = str_replace("/","",$REQUEST_URI);
header("Location: http://www.ratemymullet.com/show.php?id=$REQUEST_URI"); 
exit;
?>

In your .htaccess file, just add
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.php

In regards to speed, I haven't noticed any speed decreases while using the 404 redirection.

Hope that helps.

It's called a temporary or permanent redirect

Suzanne — Mon, 14 May 2001 18:27:17 +0000

It can be done with tags as well, but not invisibly to the user.

Where 60 is the number of seconds until the page refreshes, and URL=http://www.whatever.com/page.html is the page -- no spaces, no quotes, URL must be in all caps.

However, what you want to do for a permanent redirect is:

RedirectPermanent index2.html http://www.zerocattle.com/index.html

Where index2.html is the page you want people to not go to and http://www.zerocattle.com/index.html is the page you want them to see instead. The full url is required for the new page, where as the path is required for the old one.

For temporary redirect using the same files:

RedirectTemp index2.html http://www.zerocattle.com/index.html

***

http://www.wdvl.com/ is an excellent resource, btw, for things like this when you can't bear to go through the Apache documentation at apache.org . They didn't have the information (that I could find) on .htaccess for permanent redirects, however.

http://www.apache.org/DELETE_ME/mod/directives.html has all the information, but it can be a bit confusing without real life examples.

Suzanne