.htaccess pointers

[kirxklox]

How do I make a redirect from an old web page to a new one?

[BigBison]

Sorry Sam, I'm not an Apache user. Here's the manual, though:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html

Skip down to the heading "Content Handling" and see if those options are what you are trying to do.

[kirxklox]

I think so! I will give it a test later.

[kirxklox]

I tried both and could not get it to work. I will do more testing Monday.

[Servetech]

For a simple redirection in your .htaccess file the following sort of thing should work:

Redirect /old_page.html http://www.domain.com/some_page.php

To redirect any hit to that folder / space:

Redirect / http://www.domain.com/

or to a specific, a page perhaps:

Redirect / http://www.domain.com/page.php.css.html.whatever

[Jamie]

If you're trying to do this on a server with cPanel, the software has it built right in to its control panel.

Login to cPanel, find the "Redirects" icon, and in there you'll find a very simple interface to setup redirects.

It will also ask you whether the redirect is temporary or permanent. A temporary redirect tells a bot (such as a search engine) to continue indexing the old URL, while also indexing the new URL. A permanent redirect will tell a search engine to stop indexing the old URL, and just index the new one.