.htaccess file

[matimer]

I login into the .htaccess file in my public html file, but it's empty is that normal?

and then all i have to do is this:

redirect 301 /old_1.html [domain.com...]

and it will forward my site? to the main domain?

graicas mis amigos

matt

[jdMorgan]

matimer,

An empty .htaccess file is a normal thing for a default setup on a new account.

Your question is not at all clear. What are you trying to do?

Jim

[matimer]

I have a file:

bob.html (the old file) and when someone attempts to go to that file i want them go to the next location of that file: bob.shtml

So using .htaccess how do I do that?

thanks

matt

[keyplyr]

Try this:

Redirect 301 /old.html [your_domain.com...]

[jdMorgan]

matt,

The specifics I had in mind were:

Are both pages in the same domain?

Are both pages on the same server?

Are the two filenames different from each other?

Is this an Apache server?

If all the answers are yes, then this will work:

Redirect 301 /bob.html [your_domain.com...]

Jim

[tschild]

...

• Are both pages in the same domain?
  
• Are both pages on the same server?
  

...

I don't think these two conditions are necessary here because what the server does here is a redirect (telling the browser to retrieve the content from another URL) rather than a rewrite (internally chosing another resource to serve to the browser). Redirect targets are not limited to the same server or domain.

[matimer]

so bam... i just paste this into the blank .htaccess file

Redirect 301 /bob.html [your_domain.com...]

and wam bam thank you mam... it'll work?

Also what's the recomendation on the main page redirection....

redirect
/index.html
[domain.com...]

to...

[domain.com...]

is that the best for google?