301 Redirects on single webpage

[webpresence]

Hi,

We have changed the structure of our site and we now have two identical index files;

www.example.com/index.html
www.example.com/index1.html

Index1.html is no longer needed, but;

Index1 has a PR4, Index has PR2 so we want to transfer the PR of Index1 to the Index page via a 301 redirect (this will also solve the problem of the exisiting incoming links and search engine listings that currently point to index1).

The question is;

Can this be done by adding code to the index1 html file OR would we need to modify the .htaccess file? (we don't really want to touch the .htaccess file for fear of messing things up).

Many thanks!

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by webpresence

Can this be done by adding code to the index1 html file OR would we need to modify the .htaccess file? (we don't really want to touch the .htaccess file for fear of messing things up).

Either or should work. I would get used to using your .htaccess file though. As always when you implement redirects you should always check the headers to make sure it is working fine.