Markting Urls

[Darren B]

Actinic will unfortunately stuff it under the acatalog directory, Mark was suggestion you creeate and new page for this promotion with links to the refering actinic pages.

Have you managed to crack this yet? or decided how you want to do this.

This is an example of how htacess works http://www.tametheweb.co.uk/orders/Knowledgebase.html

redirects to

http://www.tametheweb.co.uk/knowledgebase/

its the same sort of thing but in reverse

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[Mark H]

But wouldn't placing an htaccess file on the server require an ability to use FTP software outside of Actinic, which Rob might not be able to do?

[Darren B]

Mark it possibly would, as i said earlier, it depends on his hosting control panel, so can be done easily without the need for ftp.

But i know nothing of rob's abilities, and maybe it might be something he is not comfortable with trying. I did ask if he had cracked it yet or had decided which way to go, i was also giving and example of how htacess can be used to help in this decision.

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[Mark H]

Darren/Duncan - wouldn't it be relatively easy to set up two subdomains on the host's control panel (with their help if available):

i.e www.offer1.performancemotorcare.com
www.offer2.performancemotorcare.com

and have them point/forward to the relevant products? Change "offer1" and "offer2" to some wording that could still be used in the future simply by changing the point/forward.

[leehack]

Whatever you gain in one hand, you will lose in the other as within actinic means same design/template, so easy management of pages. If someone is prepared to type in a long domain name, I suspect they will go that extra mile and type 8 more characters.

OR, hows about renaming the shop top page and having index.html as the prize landing page or even crazier, why not buy domain name www.pmc.com and have that redirect to the correct page.

[Darren B]

depending on the host and if they allow subdomains, but this would also require a redirect, again back to htaccess.

The easy answer is to use the proper url including the acatalog folder. But i am sure rob could manage this without to much trouble.

I think the question is for Rob to answer - "Do You Feel Lucky" oops wrong line "Do you Think You Can Do It"

Tools required are
and ftp program - filezilla will do
a text editor- notepad will do

logon on to the server and look for the .htacess file (you will need to select show hidden files under filezilla)

right click on the file and select view, add the lines save click back on filezilla and it will prompt you to upload.

This is a brief explanation but gives you the idea

[Darren B]

OK

the lines for your htaccess would be

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^performancemotorcare.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.performancemotorcare.com$
RewriteRule ^offer1.html$ "http\:\/\/www\.performancemotorcare\.com\/acatalog\/offer1\.html" [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^offer2.html$ "http\:\/\/www\.performancemotorcare\.com\/acatalog\/offer2\.html" [R=301,L]

check this works immediately after you have uploaded it to your sites root area

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[Darren B]

Whatever you gain in one hand, you will lose in the other as within actinic means same design/template, so easy management of pages. If someone is prepared to type in a long domain name, I suspect they will go that extra mile and type 8 more characters.

OR, hows about renaming the shop top page and having index.html as the prize landing page or even crazier, why not buy domain name www.pmc.com and have that redirect to the correct page.

Yer that too

[Mark H]

"depending on the host and if they allow subdomains, but this would also require a redirect, again back to htaccess."

On a lot of control panels (for instance 1&1) all you have to do is enter the URL of the page you want to point/forward to, and copy this from the relevant product page. I agree, of course, that htaccess is a good solution, but this might be simpler

Time for a beer.

[RuralWeb]

IMO marks idea is the simplest

[Darren B]

"depending on the host and if they allow subdomains, but this would also require a redirect, again back to htaccess."

On a lot of control panels (for instance 1&1) all you have to do is enter the URL of the page you want to point/forward to

This is what i have been saying, but not all hosts have this option, the way this works is to create / edit the htaccess already on the server.

And The Beer sounds like a great idea, mines an IPA

[Mark H]

Which host are you with Rob? Chances are that at least one of us can guide you through this.

Sorry Darren - has to be a cool Peroni

[Darren B]

I think Rob has gone and hung himself

has to be a cool Peroni

and a what ?

[TraceyHand]

that's the second time someone has mentioned a Peroni today (not both here) and I'd never heard of it til now either

(mine's a Stella, btw..after a couple of 'home measured' bacardis )

[Mark H]

In my experience (don't ask) the best lager in the world.