index page

[inverisle]

Hi,

I am having trouble getting rid of my brochure page. I need to know how to have www.mysite.com/acatalog as the index page where its the first page people see when they type in www.mysite.com

I have deleted the brochure page and updated the site but it still shows up. Do I need to delete it off the server?

Any help appreciated!

Cheers.

[Mike Hughes]

If you want people who type one URL to arrive at another one then you need to do a redirect.

I believe the correct one is a 301 redirect (permanent redirect) that Google and other search engines will follow and attribute links/pagerank correctly.

I can't tell you how to do this, bit I'm sure some of the others here will.

Another option is to create a copy of your acatalog/index.html page at the home page url but it can and does cause problems when you create buy links to products etc.

Mike

[craigtubby]

You could do a javascipt redirect

<script Language="JavaScript">
location.replace("http://www.mysite.co.uk/thispage.html")
</script>

Google wouldn't follow that link though - so you would need to put some text and a manual link.

If someone has javascript turned off .... well they would just see a blank page I think.

It's quite a clever bit of code, go to http://www.huddweb.demon.co.uk to see what it does. Notice how huddweb isn't in the address bar, and it isn't in your history - it's useful for sites that don't let you do redirects. I think if your quite quick though you can catch it before it forwards you on.

[garyhay]

Unzip the file attached

Peter place the attatched file in the public_html folder then remove the 1 so its just called .htaccess.

Change the file in notepad first to show your domain name

[inverisle]

Hi Gary,

Tried to open the file but cant. Is it the same as:

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

in a .txt file?

I tried this and renamed it but didnt work.

:-(

[inverisle]

Originally posted by garyhay
Unzip the file attached

Peter place the attatched file in the public_html folder then remove the 1 so its just called .htaccess.

Change the file in notepad first to show your domain name

I am also doing this to intensegames, not moviestarz, so I put it in the intense folder before acatalog. I have tried both though and neither works for me....

must be doing something wrong.

Can you send the text that needs to go in the htaccess file.

Cheers

[garyhay]

Peter can you e-mail me the password for the FTP so I can have a look.

file should read

redirect index.html http://www.intensegames.co.uk/acatalog/index.html

all on one line

make sure you dont have index.htm and if you do delete it