Re: O.T. - Redirecton

Jack Lauman writes: > I need to redirect all requests from 2 older sites to the home page > of the new replacement site. > > There are hundreds of links on search engines pointing to the older > sites and I need them to refer to the new one. > > Can I do this with php or is there a way to modify httpd.conf to do it? > > Thanks, > > Jack I have found Apache's mod_rewrite to be a good way to deal with this. I had a website on my ISP's server, but later got a domain name on a new host. I use the following in the original site's .htaccess to redirect all requests for files to the corresponding file on the new server: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule bandname[/]?(.*) http://www.bandname.com/$1 [R,L] For instance, if the user requests a file from the old server, i.e. http://www.oldserver.com/~torben/bandname/recordings.html, they will be automatically redirected to http://www.bandname.com/recordings.html. Note--I wrote this sort of in a hurry months ago, so there may be better ways to do it. There is a whole page dedicated to writing redirects using this module at: http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/ Hope this helps, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+