301 redirect help

[tigger]

Ok daft question of the day, I've never used 301's well that’s my excuse :)

If a 301 redirect is used to redirect a page is it visible to the visitor? I mean can he see that he is being redirected? I’m assuming no

[wilderness]

No a server side 301 in htaccess is not visible to the visitor.

[tigger]

cheers :)

[jdMorgan]

tigger,

With either a 301 or 302 redirect, the visitor's browser address bar will update to show the new URL. In these cases, the server sends an initial response to the browser containing either a 301-Moved Permanently or 302-Moved Temporarily status code, along with the new URL. The browser then updates its address bar and uses the new URL to re-request the desired object in a second HTTP transaction.

Server-internal redirects, where the URL is rewritten with mod_rewrite to specify a different local file path, are not visible.

Visible:
RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ /bar.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ /bar.html [R=302,L]
RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ /bar.html [R=permanent,L]
RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ /bar.html [R=temp,L]
Redirect permanent foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
RedirectPermanent foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
Redirect 301 foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
RedirectMatch 301 ^foo\.html$ [yourdomain.com...]
Redirect temp foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
RedirectTemp foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
Redirect 302 foo.html [yourdomain.com...]
RedirectMatch 302 ^foo\.html$ [yourdomain.com...]

Invisible:
RewriteRule ^quux\.html$ /foo.html [L]

Jim