[linux-help] Re: Page redirect?

[Xjuzr@xxxxxxx]

Hello,
 I just re read your post and see you didn't want to it that way. 
A meta tag refresh/redirect is a possibility if you have a place to send the 
visitors.

--snip--
Redirecting works like this: when visitors click on a Web page that contains 
a META refresh tag inside the HEAD section, they're sent to a different page 
without actually clicking on a link. This is called page side redirection. 

Here's the syntax:

<META http-equiv="refresh" content="2; 
             URL=http://www.ADifferentSite.com/";>
 

This META tag will send a visitor to the new URL after 2 seconds. You can set 
the timing to 0 seconds and have it jump immediately or set it for 30 seconds 
or longer. 
--snip--

Personally, I wouldn't want an established site with other sites linking to 
me and search engine listings, et al. being sent to another address.

I would just move to the new hoster, change nameservers on the domain record, 
and let the old hoster keep the rent.

It happens all the time, hosters are used to it.

Regards,
xj


In a message dated 3/31/03 10:10:47 PM Central Standard Time, 
prenzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> I'm trying to do a Web site for some people who are locked into a 
> "contract" with an overpriced Web hoster. The host offers practically 
> nothing other than ftping your files up. They even charge $3./mo. to 
> have email forwarding. Their server (MS/IIS?) also messes up the mime 
> when sending a .css file. Mozilla doesn't respond to "text" when it is 
> expecting "css", although IE doesn't panic, but I have to embed all css 
> in the actual files, which is a pain for updating. They basically get 
> business on the newbie myth that hosting has to be local. As if you 
> might need to hand-carry something over to them some day...Okay, I hate 
> them.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like a seamless way to move the entire site to my other Web 
> hosters and just redirect a page request from bad host to good host. (My 
> freinds aren't cool with moving the domain name until the "contract" 
> runs out.) I used to know about an html way to redirect, but can it be 
> really fast so people don't notice so much? Or is there some other idea 
> y'all know about?
> 
> -- 
> Olwë Melwasúl
>     Wood-elf, Emissary to the Northern Ents
> 
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