Doing a redirect?

How do you do it!

[gilamonster]

I have recently moved a website from one URL to another. Can anyone help me setup a redirect? hopefully something seamless.

Thanx,

Gil Cole

[valder]

mod_rewrite.. you seek mod_rewrite!

if you're running apache, see the manual pages on mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org] and apache.org's rewrite guide [httpd.apache.org].

When you've read up on some of it, and after googling around and searching the apache forum for a while, you may ask for further help on apache forum [webmasterworld.com] here on WebmasterWorld. But I encourage you to read up on it first and experiment a little with it before asking newbie questions on that forum.

If you're not running apache, there's a mod for windows server also, I think it's called ISAPI rewrite, but I don't know much about it.

[kazecoder]

gila - let me offer another solution...I know in some website control panels their is an icon for url redirect.

Valder - Correct me if I am wrong but most hosts won't allow you to access the mod_rewrite function?

[valder]

Afaik, most hosts that run apache will let you use mod_rewrite, but there's probably many that don't as well. If they don't let you use it, I suggest you go to another host.