Acatalog as home page (simple question)

[leonkush]

This may be a very simple question:

I have nearly finished my first Actinic site and have been keeping the current site with an Under Construction message at the main site address www.mysite.co.uk/index.html

All of my testing has been at the default Acatalog address - www.mysite.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

This week I am going to launch the site live to the public and want to set up a redirect from www.mysite.co.uk/index.html to my home page www.mysite.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

I have thought of simply placing a javascript 'formload' redirect to the acatalog URL when the user enters the site.

As this is a Java script redirect - do you think any browsers may block it?

Or can anyone suggest the normal way to do this?

Thankyou

[DaveT]

You should use htaccess files. Javascript will mean none of your pages get indexed as search engines don't move on beyond the first page.

Create a blank text file and add the following to it:

Redirect /index.html http://www.YOURSITE.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

Then save it as '.htaccess' - no quotes, no .txt extension, dot in front.

Then upload it with an FTP program to the root directory. This will also only work on Unix or Linux servers, not Windows. To see this in action go to www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk

[leonkush]

cheers

I will give it a go

Leon

[Mike Hughes]

Best to use a 'Redirect permanant' rather than just a 'Redirect'.

Redirect permanent' is a 301 redirect that tells the SE that the old page has gone and the new one is now the right one (for applying PR to, etc). Just using 'redirect' without the 'permanent' statement does a 302 temporary redirect which the SE can take to mean that the old page is temporarily unavailable but is still a valid page, thus any link PR will not be applied to the new page and the old page will remain in the index (with the new pages content).

Mike