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Post April 12th, 2004, 12:08 pm

hey all. anybody know of a script that i could put on the top of old pages to automatically open up my index page so old search engine links don't lead people to pages that have old dead links and missing images files? i don't want to delete them becuase the search engines have already crawled them and they come up in searched, i just want those pages to automatically revert to the index page. does such a think exist? and or is this wise?
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Post April 12th, 2004, 12:08 pm

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Post April 12th, 2004, 12:27 pm

I just use a PHP file...

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<?php
 header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
 header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
 header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com");
 exit;
?>
  1. <?php
  2.  header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
  3.  header("Status: 301 Moved Permanently");
  4.  header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com");
  5.  exit;
  6. ?>


Then just save it out as whatever your old file was called.

Of course, if you're using .html files, you can't put PHP code inside 'em (unless your host is configured to parse EVERYTHING for PHP code)...

But what you can do, is save the code above as error404.php

Then set it up as the default error document in .htaccess

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ErrorDocument 404 /error404.php
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Post April 12th, 2004, 12:35 pm

i'll mess with it and see if i can make it work. thanks for the help!
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Post April 12th, 2004, 3:39 pm

I use this code, works pretty quick.


Put this in the head section:
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<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_goToURL() { //v2.0
 for (var i=0; i< (MM_goToURL.arguments.length - 1); i+=2) //with arg pairs
  eval(MM_goToURL.arguments[i]+".location='"+MM_goToURL.arguments[i+1]+"'");
 document.MM_returnValue = false;
}
//-->
</script>
  1. <script language="JavaScript">
  2. <!--
  3. function MM_goToURL() { //v2.0
  4.  for (var i=0; i< (MM_goToURL.arguments.length - 1); i+=2) //with arg pairs
  5.   eval(MM_goToURL.arguments[i]+".location='"+MM_goToURL.arguments[i+1]+"'");
  6.  document.MM_returnValue = false;
  7. }
  8. //-->
  9. </script>



And this in the HTML:
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" onLoad="MM_goToURL('parent','http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.com/');return document.MM_returnValue">
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Post April 12th, 2004, 3:47 pm

:D
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<html><head>
<script language="javascript">
window.location="http://www.google.com";
</script>
</head></html>
  1. <html><head>
  2. <script language="javascript">
  3. window.location="http://www.google.com";
  4. </script>
  5. </head></html>
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Post April 12th, 2004, 3:49 pm

:roll:
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Post April 12th, 2004, 3:59 pm

:D ASP
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<%
Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com")
%>
  1. <%
  2. Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com")
  3. %>


Replace Google with your url of course, I just use it for examples and testing becouse it loads faster than just about anything.

I know, I tend to take all the fun out of things :roll:
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Post April 12th, 2004, 4:02 pm

oh lol fair enough :)
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Post April 13th, 2004, 5:16 am

In fact you do not need script, a meta will do:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://www.new.com">
Leave 10 secs for the redirect, otherwise search engines may spot this as a cloaking technique.

Best way is to use server redirect: 301 Moved Permanently.
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Post April 14th, 2004, 2:33 pm

you guys rock.
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Post April 15th, 2004, 8:35 am

I personally have used a javascript much as the same as above especially when a group was referencing a file on my site that I had renamed and had to create some new pages just the redirection. I would leave these pages about a month or two and then remove since most search engines rescan your site every month.

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