Changing url of a web site

[Ulrich Babiak]

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Timothy Renick wrote:
> I have setup a new server to run our web site.  The url has changed on 
> purpose.  Now what I want to do is to keep all of the old server urls 
> active, however, have them all point to a page that states something like 
> "Our URL has changed to ...."  I have made the new page, but I can't 
> figure out how to make all of the old urls point to it.  
> The problem is that many people have bookmarked into the site and I want 
> them to change their bookmarks.  The old site is running an older NCSA 
> web server.  

What you are looking for is called redirection which is a
feature almost any web server offers. If I remember correctly,
the old NCSA can have  something like 
PASS /*  http://the.new.server/*
in the configuration file - this tells the server to redirect the
browser to the new site while keeping the trailing portion of the
URL. As I said, I am not sure about the old syntax, but if you
look up "redirection" you should find it in the docs.

Ulrich

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