Another Redirect

[boxturt]

I have a second site I am seriously considering bringing here. It's current host is using Zeus. The site is mostly archives and I have about 30,000 links that point back to home.html which uses SSI. I know I can rename home.html to home.shtml and do a permanent redirect through Cpanel -

 

Redirect permanent /subdomain/home.html http://my_domain.com/subdomain/home.shtml

 

But I also discovered I could put

 

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

 

in my .htaccess file and that works equally as well.

 

Or does it?? Which method is more efficient and/or causes less server stress?

 

Thanks,

Ty

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Neither cause that much of a strain on the server that would be worth worring about, although the htaccess is obviously going to use more processor juice (all of about 0.0000001% extra!)

 

I would say, its best to do it which ever way you want. Personnely I would do it via the redirect in CPANEL as then i can edit this without damaging any other files should i accidentley press the wrong button!

 

Jim

[nolageek]

I have a second site I am seriously considering bringing here. It's current host is using Zeus. The site is mostly archives and I have about 30,000 links that point back to home.html which uses SSI. I know I can rename home.html to home.shtml and do a permanent redirect through Cpanel -

 

Redirect permanent /subdomain/home.html http://my_domain.com/subdomain/home.shtml

 

But I also discovered I could put

 

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

 

in my .htaccess file and that works equally as well.

 

Or does it?? Which method is more efficient and/or causes less server stress?

 

Thanks,

Ty

I added a line similar to that that allows *.html pages to be parsed with PHP since I wanted to use php on a few of my pages, but didn't want to break any bookmarks or anything. My other choice was to figure out a mod_rewrite way of doing it - but that made my head hurt.

 

Vincent

[boxturt]

Thank you gentlemen. That's kind of what I figured, I just wanted some more input. As both elements end up in the .htaccess file I think I'll think I'll use the "AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html" method. That way I won't have to change any extensions or worry about "strays". 15,000+ pages be a real pain to have to debug

 

Thanks again