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Re: [cobalt-users] 4R - Web Redirection OT



At 10:19 PM 24/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
I have a domain setup and the owner requires it to point to his other
site that is hosted elsewhere. I did a ping on it's www address but if I
point my DNS to that address, it points to a different site on that IP
address.

What to do?

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Hi Richard,

I thought the error 404 suggestion was an interesting approach, not my
choice however.

Simply create a basic index.html file
with a meta refresh tag in the head section.


The 404 approach allows for bad urls like, "oh I remember the page it was xyz at the domain.com" and so www.thedomain.com/xyz.html is typed in , they still go to www.theotheromain.tld/index.html

I forgot to mention that the index file should also be there with a redirect.
Using both will prevent user frustration.

- Bill





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