Here's the weird thing. All these accounts are on godaddy unix servers.
At godaddy you can click on something that forwards a domain so I forward http://makemedia.tv to http://richardhhall.org/makemediatv I set up word press blog inside /makemediatv and I wanted to redirect it so that someone who types http://makemedia.tv would go to a word press page http://richardhhall.org/makemediatv/?page_id=17 So I created an .htaccess file and tweaked it a bunch with the help of the list with this line of code Redirect /makemediatv/fireworks http://richardhhall.org/makemediatv/?page_id=17 ... it worked, so now if you type makemedia.tv/fireworks into the browser you go to that wordpress page (actually the .htaccess file include three other redirects that also work for /flash /audacity etc) ... to make sure this was still working I added another Redirect line with makemediatv/fart ... etc and it worked to So, to test and make sure .htaccess is working correctly on the inspiredhealing.tv hosting account I put this exact .htaccess file at the root level in that account and my theory was that http://inspiredmedia.tv/fireworks should be redirected to the page above, but I get page not found, and I tried lots of other variations trying to redirect from one place to another and always got page not found so I guess it appears that .htaccess is not doing the same thing it that account, so the mime type thing may be that .htaccess just isn't working in that account Just some more info on my problem ... Richard On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok ... I've been experimenting more and it appears that the .htaccess file > in the inspiredhealing.tv godaddy account does not work for redirects > either, so it appears to be something wrong with my use of .htaccess in this > account as compred to the other where I got it to work. > > ... so, well, I don't know? > > On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Michael, > > > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > > > I tried the .htaccess thing with both versions and it didn't seem to > > work. > > > > For the record I have used .htaccess sucessfully in the past for > > redirecting and also, for the record, using dreamweaver the files with a "." > > do show up, maybe something special about dreamweaver on the mac. > > > > I did learn, in my previous use of .htaccess that I have to set the line > > break thingy in dreamweaver to unix and I had to have one blank line at the > > bottom of the file, but it still didn't seem to work. > > > > When I say it doesn't seem to work I mean that it still doesn't play in > > another window and it still doesn't show up in iTunes. > > > > Also, I put the file at the root level of the web account. > > > > Also, I did this sucessfully with another godaddy hosting account, not > > this one, but I would think they woudl work the same. > > > > ... other ideas anybody? > > > > ... Richard > > > > On 11/24/06, Michael Verdi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hey Richard, > > > It looks like the server is not returning the correct mime type for > > > mp4 files. You can try adding a line to your .htaccess file to change > > > that. > > > Since anything with a "." at the beginning of the file name is invisible > > > on > > > a mac you'll have to duplicate the file on your server, remove the period > > > and then download the file. Open it in a text editor, add this line, > > > "AddType video/mp4 .mp4" (without the quotes), save the file, upload it, > > > delete the .htaccess file and then rename the new htaccess file to > > > .htaccess. > > > If for some reason that doesn't work you might have to try "AddType > > > video/x-mp4 .mp4" > > > I'm not 100% sure about that. Anyone know any better? > > > > > > Also, Apple recently changed something about what files will play on > > > iPods (again) and there is a "optimize for..." dropdown in the mp4 > > > compression panel that need to be set to "streaming" now in order to be > > > compatible with an iPod. I have it documented on the Alive in Baghdad wiki > > > (haven't done it for Freevlog yet). You can find that at: > > > http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format#4iPodCompression > > > > > > > > > Let us all know if this works or not - this is always a pain in the > > > butt problem. > > > > > > -Verdi > > > > > > On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > The quicktime video from this post is not showing up in iTunes > > > > > > > > http://inspiredhealing.tv/?p=9 > > > > > > > > One thing we did differently was use Verdi's method of compressing > > > > the file to create a mp4 file, so the suffix is mp4 and I'm not sure if > > > > that > > > > is the problem. > > > > > > > > The feed is > > > > > > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/inspiredhealing > > > > > > > > and the correct post shows up at the top of the feed. > > > > > > > > Also, when I click on the mp4 file it does not automatically start > > > > playing in another page in fireant like .mov files normally do. > > > > > > > > Any help appreciated, as alway. > > > > > > > > ... Richard > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://richardhhall.org > > > > http://richardshow.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://michaelverdi.com > > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org & http://node101.org > > > Community Capitalism: http://havemoneywillvlog.com > > > Machinima: http://whenwewererobots.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://richardhhall.org > > http://richardshow.com > > > > > > -- > http://richardhhall.org > http://richardshow.com > -- http://richardhhall.org http://richardshow.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
