.htaccess

[kkashi]

Hi,

 

How would I redirect from **** to ****/site/index.html?

 

I created an empty index.html under www

I updated the .htaccess to have:

 

redirect /index.html *****/site/index.html

 

But it does not work. PLEASE HELP Mad!!!

[LisaJill]

I use many redirects, they look like this:

 

>Redirect /index.xml http://www.lisa-jill.com/?rss=1

 

(as an example)

 

Since yours looks very similar, I would guess that the only change you need for your syntax is that "r" needs to be "R". These are *nix boxes and therefore sensitive.

 

Also moving this for organization. =)

 

Hope that helps!

Edited May 9, 2004 by TCH-Lisa

[kkashi]

Hi,

 

Are you referring to the the r after the question mark?

 

What does ?rss=1 mean?

[LisaJill]

Ah no, that was just an example from my .htaccess, for your example you'd use:

 

>Redirect /index.html http://www.****/site/index.html

 

That's the first r, in Redirect. =)

 

Does that help? Sorry about that.

[kkashi]

This is exatly what I have done, but the site name keeps replicating as follows:

 

*****/site/index.htmlsit...site/index.html

[LisaJill]

I'm having a really bad day with proofreading, I'm sorry kkashi. =/

 

The reason that it is looping is because you've told it to go the root of your domain and find index.html and to redirect it back to index.html - over, and over, and over ... an endless loop.

 

Can you tell me exactly what you are trying to do using a real world example?

Edited May 9, 2004 by TCH-Lisa

[LisaJill]

Fixed it, in hindsight it was easy. If you try to redirect / then it's going to loop endlessly no matter what, so we changed it to /index.html and it worked. =)

 

For anyone else needing to do this:

 

>Redirect permanent /index.html http://www.****/site/index.html

 

[arvind]

or

 

>Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.****/site/index.html

which is a permamnent redirect just another way to write it