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labeler2003 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-23-2005, 12:44 PM

It depends on whether your site is hosted on a UNIX system or Windows system.

Your webmaster should know how to do this without your needing to tell them--otherwise they are not a webmaster.

In any case:

On a UNIX system you need to tell your webmaster to set up an .htaccess file. The .htaccess file is a plain text file that goes in the root.

If the entire web site has moved, you can do a single redirect that sends all visitors who try to go to the old location, to your home page at the new location:

Code:

redirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://www.newlocation.com/index.html

Or you can do individual redirects to send visitors to specific pages to the new location of that page:

Code:

Redirect 301 /blogfile.html http://www.newlocation.com/blogfile.html

If the original file was in a folder, the redirect includes the path:

Code:

Redirect 301 /foldername/blogfile.html http://www.newlocation.com/foldername/blogfile.html

I have information about 301 redirects on my blog at:

http://internetresults.blogspot.com/...-redirect.html

If your web site is hosted on a Windows system it is a little more complicated. The changes need to be made in IIS, and that is usually done by the system administrator. If you need to know about IIS, I can tell you more.