redirection

[Hugh Welford]

Hi - I have an obsolete site residing in a host domain sub-directory, many
pages of which are listed in google. Dont want to lose valuable google
listings.

Can anyone tell me how to re-direct .htm pages? If the whole site were
deleted, is it possible to customise the 404 page not found page so that it
re-directs to the new site?

Thanks

Hugh

[Mike Brind]

Hugh Welford wrote:

Hi - I have an obsolete site residing in a host domain sub-directory, many
pages of which are listed in google. Dont want to lose valuable google
listings.

Can anyone tell me how to re-direct .htm pages? If the whole site were
deleted, is it possible to customise the 404 page not found page so that it
re-directs to the new site?

Thanks

Hugh

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="n(secs);
url=http://www.wherever.com/newfile" />

but you really should have asked this question in an html group.

--
Mike Brind

[Mike Brind]

Mike Brind wrote:

Hugh Welford wrote:

Hi - I have an obsolete site residing in a host domain sub-directory, many
pages of which are listed in google. Dont want to lose valuable google
listings.

Can anyone tell me how to re-direct .htm pages? If the whole site were
deleted, is it possible to customise the 404 page not found page so that it
re-directs to the new site?

Thanks

Hugh

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="n(secs);
url=http://www.wherever.com/newfile" />

but you really should have asked this question in an html group.

On the other hand, asking this question in an asp group isn't so wrong:

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.wherever.com/newfile"
%>

I nearly forgot all about that :-)

--
Mike Brind

[Evertjan.]

Mike Brind wrote on 26 apr 2006 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Hugh Welford wrote:

Hi - I have an obsolete site residing in a host domain sub-directory,
many pages of which are listed in google. Dont want to lose valuable
google listings.

Can anyone tell me how to re-direct .htm pages? If the whole site
were deleted, is it possible to customise the 404 page not found
page so that it re-directs to the new site?

Thanks

Hugh

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="n(secs);
url=http://www.wherever.com/newfile" />

but you really should have asked this question in an html group.

... except when this old site is equiped with ASP and set to run ASP on
it's .html pages. Then you could set on each page:

<%
response.redirect "http://mynewsite.xyz" &_
request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME")
%>

=============

... or: when this old site is equiped with ASP and and has a dedicated
404.asp page, that is code accessable to you, and could be set to detect
the actual failed page request and redirect accordingly.

=============

However, I then would recomment making a noindex, follow construction for
updating the bots.
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Evertjan.]

Mike Brind wrote on 26 apr 2006 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.wherever.com/newfile"
%>

That is even better!

and it could be implemented on a dedicated 404.asp, I suppose.

Does Response.AddHeader "Location",.. do an immediate redirect,
or after a Response.end?

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Mike Brind]

Evertjan. wrote:

Mike Brind wrote on 26 apr 2006 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.wherever.com/newfile"
%>

That is even better!

and it could be implemented on a dedicated 404.asp, I suppose.

Does Response.AddHeader "Location",.. do an immediate redirect,
or after a Response.end?

After Response.End. On an asp page that has a load of calls to
databases, it would be worth popping Response.End just after
Response.Addheader "Location",... to save the rest of the page being
processed. Since the OP has plain html in his files, it's not so
necessary, but as you point out, he would have to set his server up to
run .htm files as asp.

I don't think he would need a 404 page. After a few months, the search
engines that index the old site should all have updated their indexes,
so deleting the old site without repercussions should be ok.

--
Mike Brind

[Hugh Welford]

Thanks very much guys - very helpful
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Hi - I have an obsolete site residing in a host domain sub-directory, many
pages of which are listed in google. Dont want to lose valuable google
listings.

Can anyone tell me how to re-direct .htm pages? If the whole site were
deleted, is it possible to customise the 404 page not found page so that
it re-directs to the new site?

Thanks

Hugh