On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Aaron A. King wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but is this something that must be done by > reconfiguring > the server? Or can one put the 301 redirect into an HTML page sitting at the > old site?
You can't. There is a non-standard, but de facto standard way to accomplish something very similar in HTML, by using <meta http-equiv="Refresh" value="0; http://new-url/";>, but you wouldn't want to use that unless you really had no control over the server /whatsoever/, even through local configs (.htaccess). There are pretty good reasons not to use that method most of the time; and it also fails to programatically notify indexers or user agents that the new destination replaces the old one (as a 301 does--though I have no idea how smart indexers are about that sort of thing). Apache (and maybe other servers) supports the concept of an ".asis" document (as-is), which gets served exactly as is, and includes the appropreate HTTP headers _in_the_document_. However, IIRC, Apache doesn't normally have these set up by default, and so if you're able to get that working, you'd probably be able to get the mod_rewrite stuff working as well (which is a generally better approach). -- HTH, Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
