Redirecting a Web Page

What do you do when you change your residence or telephone number? Inform friends and family of the change; not to speak about the utility and credit card companies! The same applies to web pages. If you manage a personal website or a commercial one, managing links is a crucial task.

The web page referenced by a link might have been moved to a different location or the page might have been updated and referenced by a new file name. In such cases users will be unable to reach the right page. If you had submitted your web page to search engines, the old information will still be out there on the web resulting in Page Not Found errors.

Methods

• A simple way to redirect users to your new location is by using META tag functionality. Place the following tag in the HEAD section of your html page that is to be redirected:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="20;url=http://www.foo.com/newpage.htm">

• Another common method of redirecting is to use .htaccess. Open the existing .htaccess using a text editor or create a new one if no .htaccess is available. To create a new one, open a blank page in a text editor such as notepad or textpad and save it as .htaccess. Use 'Redirect' syntax to redirect your site visitors to the new page.

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