Duh, why didn't I think of that??? :( My 404 is customized so they get a friendly message and have all the navigation, etc. But it would make sense to check the page requested and redirect all traffic for the gallery pages right to the gallery.
Thanks BJ! -----Original Message----- From: Bj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:13 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Pages moved - Best way to handle? Once upon a time when I changed a site around, I would leave 'stub' pages to replace all the missing ones with a "This page has moved" message and a redirect after 5 seconds. Now I do a custom 404 that looks like a regular page on the site, including all the navigation, with the 404 type message in the body, see http://www.the-british-chihuahua-club.org.uk/nosuchpage.htm for example. But to make it transparent to the user just put some ASP code in the page (before anything else so headers aren't sent) that checks for gallery calls and does a redirect (in ASP that's Response.Redirect("URL") > > From: "Todd Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/07/13 Thu PM 01:18:52 GMT > To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com > Subject: [wdvltalk] Pages moved - Best way to handle? > > Hi Gang - > > I built a site about a year and a half ago as an emergency - and favor > - to the owner. It wasn't exactly what we wanted but it worked at the time. > About a month ago, I rebuilt the site. The most significant change > (other than cosmetics) was the location of the gallery. It moved from > static pages located in "/images/gallery/" to dynamic pages located in "/gallery/". > > As you can imagine, a lot of the pages are cached. I have a custom > 404 page that shoots me a message when someone hits the page. 99% of > them are for the old gallery. Some are from legitimate surfers, some are from bots. > Yes, I'm getting tired of all these messages. > > Other than removing the alert email from the 404 message, does anyone > have any suggestions on the proper way to handle this? Is there > anything I can/should do? Everything is running ASP on Windows 2003 > running IIS 6. I also should note that I have full access to the > domains DNS. I'm wondering if I can set up something that says > anything for "http://www.site.com/images/gallery/*"; should just go to > "http://www.site.com/gallery/gallery.asp";? > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > Todd > > Omaha, NE > > > ____ ? The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ? ____ To Join wdvltalk, > Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or > use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change > subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
