Redirection for customer with new ISP

rjbutler posted this at 21:57 — 4th January 2000.

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Is there an easy way to have requests to a Web site redirected to the new URL when a site is moved to a new ISP. The site was virtualy hosted by the first ISP but now it will be hosted on our server under its own domain name. I need to redirect users looking for the site at its old address to be able to find it at its new address.

Any Ideas???

Anonymous posted this at 23:48 — 9th January 2000.

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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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Brian Farkas posted this at 00:12 — 10th January 2000.

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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).]

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Jaiem posted this at 21:55 — 12th January 2000.