How are the links to the items structured? Are they all unique? I've got the menu links, which are all to folder /shop/ which is easy to do the index.html trick Robert mentioned, but the product links around the site look like this:
http://secured.domain.org/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jpmrepm8 The site is on is a Windows 2000 Server. If there isn't a quick fix script, I suppose what I could do is do a simple search and replace with my editor that changes all the links from /shop/ to /shopdown/. That'd bring them to a 404 easily, and then I can do a search and replace to bring it back. Bunch of file uploads, but at least not having to handwork every single link. Sound sane to you, or do you think there's an easier way? Alida If so (and you're using Apache to host the website), you could use mod_rewrite and redirect all requests for items to a single page stating the shop is closed. If not, then you have a choice (these are all using Apache coz it's what I know, however I'm sure that someone here could help you do something similar if you use a legacy windows system): 1) rename the page that displays items and the index page for the shop, then use .htaccess to display a custom 404 stating that the shop is closed 2) Use some kind of regex foo to grep the links in every page and remove them automatically 3) manually remove the links from every page. Hope this helps, if you want any more advice or any further details, feel free to ask. Cheers, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Redirecting traffic away from online store during upgrade Quoting Alida Saxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering, is there an easy way to redirect traffic away from a site's > shop, without having to directly change all the links that go to that shop? > Unfortunately the shopping cart doesn't have a "store closed" function. > Beyond the shop, it is a simple ASP site with includes, the store is in > subfolders beyond domain.com/shop/ > > It wouldn't be a big deal if all I had to do was modify the menu links, but > the site's got a lot of individual product links that I'd have to search and > replace on. If there was any way to cut that work down, it'd be great. > > Thanks in advance, > > Alida Alida, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies?" ____ . 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: unknown lmsubst tag argument: '' 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.
