301-redirect

[balidog]

Hallo experts.
Would you tell me how to do a redirect?
We have to change few pages in our HP, and need new URLs for them.
However, is redirect actually the best way?
I ask this, because my webmaster is not very helpful nor reliable, so I have to do it by myself.

Many Thanks

[timmathews.com]

balidog -
Get a new webmaster.
email me, tim@timmathews.com I will get you fixed up.
Thanks!
Tim

[cyanide]

Aside from getting a new webmaster, you can do it yourself with .htaccess if you are on Apache

Redirect 301 /oldfolder/oldpage.php http://www.domain.com/newfolder/newpage.php

Make sure it's all on one line and no line breaks

[kservik]

What about redirecting index.php?s12 to static pages? I tried .haccess redirect, but that did not work.

[Weedy Lady]

If you leave the old url page on your server (a good idea) you can try adding the following to your coding in the HEAD section:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="noindex,follow">

AND the following script:
<script language="JavaScript">
if (parent.location.href == self.location.href){
window.location.href = 'index.html'
}
</script>

NOTE: that the 'index.html' needs to be whatever page you want to redirect TO.

That might work for .php pages. If it does, you can change the coding for the content part of the page to a clickable link redirect that people will see. This prevents having pages with duplicate content on your site and provides for a manual redirect just in case the script in the head section doesn't work.

Simplistic, and kind of the long way around the barn, but an "if all else fails" suggestion nonetheless.

[brian.mark]

While the suggestion from Weedy Lady will work, it won't move the SERPs from your old page to the new one.

If you want to make URL's move like you're pointing to I believe mod_rewrite is in order.

In your .htaccess file, do something like the following.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.php?(.+)$ http://www.site.com/dir/$1.html [I,O,RP,L]

Or, do it in reverse if you want to use the old page but have it appear static.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^dir/(.+).html$ http://www.site.com/index.php?$1 [L]

The latter is the more common use whereby you make a static looking page out of a dynamic page.

If you need any more assistance, Google can find a log about mod_rewrite, or just ask.

Brian.

[brian.mark]

I had to edit that a few times to get the $ in the right places. Ugh. Should be right now. I need to learn to use preview.

Brian.

[kservik]

Sorry, I did a poor job explaining myself. I dont want to use URL rewrite, but are going to drop an old script for a new one.

I want to redirect page for page from an old script with dynamic URLs to a new script with totally diffrent ant static URLs.

Tried using .htaccess with Redirect 301 /url http://url, but that does not seem to work with .php?123 type pages.

Kim

[brian.mark]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.php?(.+)$ http://www.site.com/dir/$1.html [I,O,RP,L]

This example uses the P initiative, which is a perm redirect. It should work for what you're wanting.

Brian.

[steve0]

If your pages are dynamic... and you want to "redirect page for page"
A simple way might be:

<?
~pseudo correlation method here~
parse the url, database look up, etc..
~end pseudocode ~

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:/$newpage");
exit();
}
?>

Just place the 'header' calls before any output.