hoster doesn't support .htaccess or asp

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hoster doesn't support .htaccess or asp

can a 301 redirect be done manually in html?

davester28

7:05 pm on Aug 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

My hosting company is not very flexible. (Y!) They do not seem to support .htaccess files, and i know my package doesn't have asp or php

I have need to rename some pages, so I'd like to redirect any spiders or visitors who go to the old page names to the new page names.

for example...

redirect 301 widget_design.htm widget-design.htm

Any suggestions how to acheive this without using .htaccess or asp/php?

Any help greatly appreciated

jonknee

6:38 am on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

I think you're out of luck. If they don't support .htaccess, they probably won't want to change their Apache config file (httpd.conf) to add in a 304 manually.

le_gber

10:19 am on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

You could use a javascript and meta refresh (to be sure everybody will be forwarded.

on the old pages set the time before forwarding to 2/3 seconds with a message saying sorry but this pages has permanently moved and in the meta you put a robots noindex, follow tag.

Leo

davester28

1:07 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Is this method O.K. with Google? (will it know that I'm forwarding to the new page because it is a replacement for the old page - like a 301 redirect)?

I know with a 301 redirect, the new page takes the old pages place / PR , etc... Will this method do the same?

Any sample code of the redirect would be appreciated, I'm a newbie.

Staffa

3:57 pm on Aug 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Replace # in CONTENT="#; by the number of seconds before the visitor is redirected - anything from 0 to whatever.

I have no other option for a redirect either and it works very well with G and other SEs.

Leave the <body> of the page empty and leave the page on the sever for several months until it is not requested by any SE robots anymore, then delete it.
Good luck

davester28

5:07 pm on Aug 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the help, the page redirects are working great (and so simple) - thanks for the code.

My only question is...

1 person recommended no index, follow, and the code sample is no index, no follow.

I would think i would want to do "no index, follow", so that google finds the new pages / transfers PR to the new pages, but I wasn't sure...

Thanks again!