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**Mike Hughes** · 29-Sep-2004, 01:30 PM

What you need is a .htaccess file (assuming you're on a unix server)

Place it in the acatalog folder on your server with the following content.

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
Redirect Permanent /acatalog/oldfilename.html http://www.domain.co.uk/acatalog/New_File_Name.html

You'll need to repeat the 'Redirect Permanent' line for each page that needs re-directing.

The easiest way (for me anyway) to do this is to create the file in a text editor, save it as htaccess.txt and then upload to the server. Once there, you can simply rename it to be .htaccess (no file extension) and that's it.

Mike

PS. Some ftp programs won't show files like .htaccess unless you specifically set them up to do it. In that case the file will apparently disappear once you've renamed it, so if I were you I'd check your ftp program first. You do want to be able to access the file once it's on the server so you can delete it if something doesn't work quite right.

**Darren B** · 29-Sep-2004, 01:31 PM

Talk to you hosting company, i have a error 404 redirect set up on my site that automatically redirects to what ever url i want when a page is not found. I am able to make these changes myself through my control panel.

Some one here i am sure would know of a way you can upoad a file to do this for you but it is whether the hosting company allows though

Cheers
Darren

**imis** · 29-Sep-2004, 01:33 PM

Hi,

We've just upgraded a site for a client from V4 to V7 (www.bonasana.com) and had the same problem. We don't use a server setting but sorted it by editing the "old" pages to read as follows:

Old File Path/Name: http://www.bonasana.com/woh/acatalog..._Range_23.html

Content replaced with:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.bonasana.com/woh/v7/acatalog/Dr_Sarah_Brewer_s_Trilogy_Range.html">
<TITLE>Bonasana - Redirection</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
 
Automatically redirecting your request
- <a href="http://www.bonasana.com"> click here </a> if you are not automatically redirected.
</BODY>
</HTML>

The <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" line is the important one as this actually redirects the page to the new version automatically.

Hope this helps.

IMIS

**I-CC** · 29-Sep-2004, 02:03 PM

Hi,

Create a .htaccess file in the acatalog folder with the content:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.budget-bumps.co.uk/acatalog/

Then, any page which is not found within your acatalog folder will result in being directed to the default content of the acatalog folder.

If you can not get it working, then check with your hosting company provider that they allow htaccess file operations

**TraceyHand** · 08-Oct-2004, 09:35 AM

Fantastic thanks!

I've only just seen these replies (for some reason I never got the notification email when they were answered, suspect hungry Norton AntiSpam!)
HUGE thanks to Mike (Olderscot) and TechnoWeb!
Used the text from TechnoWeb post
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.budget-bumps.co.uk/acatalog/
and made a .txt file containing it (as Mike suggested)
Uploaded and renamed .htaccess and BINGO, works a treat!
Then proceeded to try and do a web search to bring up an old filename to no avail..lol..typically, the search engines are only showing new pages now but, hey ho!
At least if an old page *IS* linked anywhere, it now bounces straight to the /acatalog page!
Thank you, thank you!
Now I'll do the same for Chariots On Hire and I'll never worry about "page not found" again!
Cheers
Tracey

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