404 Redirect Help

simmonsmike7 · 02-21-2009, 04:26 PM

Web Design Noob In The House!

What's the HTML to redirect a page to a different page?

Thanks.

seree · 02-21-2009, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simmonsmike7

Web Design Noob In The House!

What's the HTML to redirect a page to a different page?

Thanks.

Just put this code within the <HEAD> section.

Code:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html">

Quentin · 02-21-2009, 07:20 PM

A 404 page is actually a marketing opportunity which many marketers overlook.

A person reaches a 404 page either because they entered a wrong page url or in the case of a membership site are not registered.

Your 404 page can therefore be a tool to make the offer again or provide helpful information to keep them on your site.

If you go to The Internet Marketers Club and try to click on one of the links you will see my 404 page which reinforces the sign up process.

Here are a whole bunch of very interesting 404 pages from different sites to give you and idea of what can be done.

404 Error Pages: Reloaded | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

Quentin

xga · 02-22-2009, 06:36 AM

If you are using apache server, you can add the following to the .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html

So when someone visit your website through an invalid URL, he will be redirected to missing.html (or any file that you specify on that line).

Normally 404 redirect is done at web server level (using mod_rewrite or ErrorDocument) instead of html level. This is because 404 means that the web server cannot find the suitable html file in the first place, so any html redirect won't get chance to work.

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xga Active Warrior Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 3 Posts	Re: 404 Redirect Help If you are using apache server, you can add the following to the .htaccess file: ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html So when someone visit your website through an invalid URL, he will be redirected to missing.html (or any file that you specify on that line). Normally 404 redirect is done at web server level (using mod_rewrite or ErrorDocument) instead of html level. This is because 404 means that the web server cannot find the suitable html file in the first place, so any html redirect won't get chance to work.