Redirect question

by Roaddog

Posted: 15 years ago 4 replies

PROGRAMMING

good day,

I have a directory where I put an old premade site script that I was going to play around with after a bit. I put no index on the robots txt. Well, while I was working on other sites, this one got more pages indexed (by Google) than the ones I was seoing. The old site script turned out to be no good because it used amazons old api. I did not think it worth trying to fix.
This is none wordpress.

Is there any way in cpanel, to redirect all those indexed pages to the new(er) site in cpanel? There is something like over 900 pages that will go to a 404 page now if I don't do something.
I hate to waste it.

I tried redirecting the url's that are listed on google, to the domain name.
The thing is, I never had to do this before on a none wordpress site using cpanel, so I don't know how long it would take to propogate thru the www.

or even if it can be done

any help will be much appreciated

Jim

#question #redirect

shinepuppy 15 years ago
Hey Roaddog,
I think I understand. You could solve this by creating an .htaccess file and redirect all 404 errors to a PHP script. Put something like the following in your .htaccess file in the directory in question:
Code:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
Then, create a 404.php script in your document root that contains whatever you like... maybe something like:
Code:

<?php header('Location: http://whateverDomain.com'); ?>
If you really wanted to get fancy you could put some logic in your 404 script to inspect the $_GET variable and redirect to different URLs based on the file requested.

Hope this helps!
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- Roaddog 15 years ago
  
  shinepuppy,
  
  Really, really appreciate your help.
  I will give it a shot.
  
  My coding skills are "home mechanic" at best
  
  Thanks
  
  Jim
  
  edit* Thank you, that worked like a charm
  
  Jim
  
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  shinepuppy 15 years ago
  
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- shinepuppy 15 years ago
  
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