How do you redirect your site?

BJ Min · 06-03-2009, 01:31 PM

hi,

i use frontpage and was wondering how do you redirect
your site?

i want my site to appear in a landing page i made which is not the original
index...i use htm files (frontpage)...

any codes would be appreciated...

thanks
BJ

Harry Behrens · 06-03-2009, 01:34 PM

Not totally sure if this is what you mean, but the way I do redirect for a static HTML file is to insert the following tag inside the HEADER section of the webpage:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.url.com">

The "0; part is the time before redirecting, so if you want it to wait 5 seconds then redirect it would be "5;URL= and so on.

I believe Frontpage lets you go into the page's code with a tab in the editor, so it should be easy to insert from there...

BJ Min · 06-03-2009, 01:41 PM

thank you...i have just inserted that exact code in my index.htm pages for all my subdirectories...

by the way, i also put that in my ERROR PAGES using CPANEL...

i guess that's pretty much it huh?

bj

ps...when i try to redirect through CPANEL REDIRECT, it doesn't work
for some reason after i put in the code you sent me...if you know why,
please post...if you don't know, thanks anyways!

adam123 · 06-03-2009, 02:11 PM

hey,

just put these into your .htaccess files and you're done:

ErrorDocument 400 /errors/badrequest.html
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/authreqd.html
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/forbid.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/serverr.html

with these you can handle all type of errors

All the best,
Adam

Gene Pimentel · 06-03-2009, 02:15 PM

HOLD ON! The "meta refresh" method is bad for SEO. You should use a permanent redirect. Open notepad. Enter this code:

Code:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.newdomain.com/page.html");
exit();
?>

Naturally, replace the URL with your own landing page URL. Save it as index.php (not .txt). Upload it to your domain, and you're done. If you have an index.html in the directory, you'll need to remove it.

adam123 · 06-03-2009, 02:16 PM

you can use php redirect too

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

put these lines to your index.php file and replace the yoursite where you want to redirect

Quote:

Originally Posted by BJ Min

hi,

i use frontpage and was wondering how do you redirect
your site?

i want my site to appear in a landing page i made which is not the original
index...i use htm files (frontpage)...

any codes would be appreciated...

thanks
BJ

Istvan Horvath · 06-03-2009, 02:19 PM

You can not place it anywhere - it has to be in the "head" section of your html site, i.e. between the <head> and </head> tags.

Just a side note: this kind of redirect is seen by search engines as temporary redirect... and in most cases what people want would be a permanent (301) redirect.

Read more why you should NOT use meta refresh:
301 redirect - Google Search

Harry Behrens · 06-03-2009, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gene Pimentel

HOLD ON! The "meta refresh" method is bad for SEO. You should use a permanent redirect. Open notepad. Enter this code:

You know, I had read about this, so I was aware of it, but somehow my mind just completely blanked it out when I read/replied to this thread. Good catch.

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Harry Behrens HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Caracas, Venezuela Posts: 306 Thanks: 118 Thanked 167 Times in 69 Posts Contact Info	Re: How do you redirect your site? Not totally sure if this is what you mean, but the way I do redirect for a static HTML file is to insert the following tag inside the HEADER section of the webpage: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=http://www.url.com"> The "0; part is the time before redirecting, so if you want it to wait 5 seconds then redirect it would be "5;URL= and so on. I believe Frontpage lets you go into the page's code with a tab in the editor, so it should be easy to insert from there...
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BJ Min Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,675 Thanks: 148 Thanked 36 Times in 19 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: How do you redirect your site? thank you...i have just inserted that exact code in my index.htm pages for all my subdirectories... by the way, i also put that in my ERROR PAGES using CPANEL... i guess that's pretty much it huh? bj ps...when i try to redirect through CPANEL REDIRECT, it doesn't work for some reason after i put in the code you sent me...if you know why, please post...if you don't know, thanks anyways!
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adam123 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 108 Thanks: 4 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	Re: How do you redirect your site? hey, just put these into your .htaccess files and you're done: ErrorDocument 400 /errors/badrequest.html ErrorDocument 401 /errors/authreqd.html ErrorDocument 403 /errors/forbid.html ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html ErrorDocument 500 /errors/serverr.html with these you can handle all type of errors All the best, Adam
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