Since I redesigned my website using Freeway I’m seeing a lot of these errors coming into the server. The old links are not connecting to my new site. Is there a way to set up a redirect page that would take them to my homepage? How would I go about doing this?
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You could make a custom 404 page, and use your hosting provider’s
control panel to wire it up. On that custom page, you would put a
friendly message including links to the most-requested pages.
Another way that you could handle this would be to set up a redirect
file. Since you have the server logs to show what’s going missing,
just make a list of these in a plain text file. Then edit the file so
that it reads like this:
Redirect 301 oldfile.html newfile.html
Redirect 301 anotherfile.html newanotherfile.html
if you have any folders that are not replicated in the new site, then
you can do the same with
Redirect 301 oldfolder newfolder
Each redirect should be on a new line, and there should be a single
space between Redirect and 301, the other spaces can be tabs or
multiple spaces if you like.
Once you have all this set up (and do use a proper text editor–not
Word-- for this) use an FTP application to upload the file to your
server. Once it’s there, look and see if you already have
an .htaccess file (you may need to turn on a “Show hidden files”
option in your FTP app). If you do, then open it and copy and paste
the lines you created earlier into it. If not, then rename your text
file .htaccess (the leading period/full stop is important here) and
your redirects should start flowing.
A 301 header means Moved Permanently, which will cause any search
engine to update its index accordingly. After a while, you should
stop seeing these 301 results altogether, as visitors update their
bookmarks and search engines update their indexes.
Walter
On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:53 PM, PrairieGal wrote:
Since I redesigned my website using Freeway I’m seeing a lot of
these errors coming into the server. The old links are not
connecting to my new site. Is there a way to set up a redirect page
that would take them to my homepage? How would I go about doing this?
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I recently looked in cpanel and found the redirect option that works a treat for incorrect addresses. Click on the redirects icon and put in www.whatever.com/404.shtml then put in your home page or wherever you want for the redirect. There are no delays, messages or any new pages to add at that point.
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