Hostgator Redirects Do Not Work - Redirects Just Disappear From Account

[mikeyman120]

Hello,

Does anyone else use Hostgator and have a problem with their redirects. I go into cpanel and click redirects and set them up there. I then test my links on my sites every once in a while and I get "hostgator page not found". I then go into cpanel and click redirects and it says no redirects are set up in this account. I have always loved hostgator but this is weird. Makes me worry my sites can just get deleted.

I have had no problems with my websites and email accounts for at least 3 years. But redirects just don't seem to work in Hostgator.

I recentley found a lady on you tube and her links were down. It said "hostgator page not found". I contacted her and told her I know she is using hostgator redirects and that they just don't seem to work. She said she is using hostgator redirects and they were gone from her account.

Any one else notice this with hostgator.

Mike

[Srikanth D]

Strange.. I never faced such problem.
Did you try contacting theie support? or the live chat? They respond quickly.

[kaitech]

Actually I have and I have questioned it quietly to myself. I have a few sites that even though the page was uploaded and refreshed it still showed a 404 error. No this is not the same as the problem you have but I have noticed weird lil things. I am thinking of going back to a dedicated server again at least I have full control of everything. Lots of people think that dedicated servers are expensive and hard to maintain that is not true. You can find servers from around $59-and up.

[mikeyman120]

Originally Posted by Srikanth D

Strange.. I never faced such problem.
Did you try contacting theie support? or the live chat? They respond quickly.

Hello,
Yes their support is great but they don't know what I am talking about they say.

Mike

Anyway I now make php redirects so that won't happen again.

[Lawrh]

Your post spooked me as I use HG domain redirects for affiliate links in an ebook. Well, I just tested and they work fine.

[Dan Grossman]

Originally Posted by kaitech

Actually I have and I have questioned it quietly to myself. I have a few sites that even though the page was uploaded and refreshed it still showed a 404 error. No this is not the same as the problem you have but I have noticed weird lil things. I am thinking of going back to a dedicated server again at least I have full control of everything. Lots of people think that dedicated servers are expensive and hard to maintain that is not true. You can find servers from around $59-and up.

Or a VPS from $9.95 and up, which gives you the same control as a physical server.

[dave147]

the last redirect i used didn't work in IE but did work in FF, after live chat they told me to just set it up again, so I did and it did work in both. They seem to be working fine in both now

[Lloyd Buchinski]

Originally Posted by kaitech

I have a few sites that even though the page was uploaded and refreshed it still showed a 404 error.

If you are using ff it doesn't do a true refresh unless you press ctrl + f5, something that took up too much of my time wondering why something wouldn't work. Also when using the stripped down ff window to 'preview html' on a server, even that won't make it reload the css sheet.

Probably not even the cause of the problem you are having but thought I'd mention it in case it was.

[Manuel Viloria]

What is the redirect page?

Does it look like example.com/go/keyword
or is it example.com/go/keyword/

(Please take note of the trailing slash)

In the cPanel of some webhosts, I end up creating
two redirects: one with a trailing slash, and one without,
to avoid those 404 errors.

Kind regards,
Manuel Viloria

[James Schramko]

I always use my own index.php file (make in notepad)

using this code:

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>


I do NOT trust C Panel OR Domain registrar re-directs since they have failed for me a few times in the past.

[Dan Grossman]

Originally Posted by James Schramko

I always use my own index.php file (make in notepad)

using this code:

<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

You need to send the right HTTP status code or you're throwing away the search engine positions for the URL you're moving, and any backlinks that were pointing to that page.

[James Schramko]

for affiliate links?

[James Schramko]

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
?>

for SEO

[willsmith]

Originally Posted by Michael D Price

or you can just do the same thing inside an htaccess file, and it doesnt use any cpu time like modrewrite or php does ....

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

It dawned on me that I have links from other websites pointing to my website and some link using www.mysite.com and others are just mysite.com. It seem that I read somewhere that this will cost you some ranking position and possible duplicate content issues.

Does anyone know if this is true and if so, can I use a redirect like the above to salvage the page rank from the inbound links?