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Started by Paul Hardy on Individual.net
Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:27
Redirects and similar
Author: Paul Hardy on Individual.net
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:27
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:27
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First a bit of background. I've had a Demon dialup account and Homepages space for about 10 years. I still use Demon as my primary incoming mail host, but I also now have broadband access (btinternet) and a couple of external web sites (eg from 34sp). I am pretty computer literate (degree in computer science), but not a web expert. Despite the way that Demon Homepages has been rather left behind by time (20MB limit, no .htaccess, etc), I do have useful stuff there, which has doubtless been bookmarked by lots of people - put "paul hardy" into google, and my home page is in the first page of hits, ahead of the US senator etc! Now the problem. I have a village map, which is available from http://www.hardy.demon.co.uk/comberton/map/. I've recently updated it, and have changed the filenames as a result (different version number, move to png rather than gif). Simplistically, I thought that I could just put a .htaccess in the folder, with redirect lines like Redirect 303 /comberton/map/comberton8_a3l_high.gif /comberton/map/comberton9_a3l_high.png so that anyone who had bookmarked the gif files would get pointed instead to the newer PNGs. However, having tried it, it didn't work, and googling around indicated that Demon doesn't support .htaccess for Homepages (just for commercial space). Note that use of META tags and Refresh isn't much use, as the references I want to redirect are for image files not for html files. So, the question. Anyone got any suggestions for handling this situation? -- Paul Hardy Email: paul at the hardy.demon.co.uk domain Exiled in Redlands, CA, USA
Re: Redirects and similar
Author: Dr J R Stockton
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:23
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:23
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In demon.homepages.authoring message <4tgj8eF140tnuU1@mid.individual.net>, Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:27:43, Paul Hardy on Individual.net <paul@hardy.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >So, the question. Anyone got any suggestions for handling this situation? I suspect that you cannot do what you really want to do. But you could replace the original GIF of Comberton with a GIF of text giving the URL of the PNG and a message about changing bookmarks. -- (c) John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05 IE 6 <URL:http://www.jibbering.com/faq/> Old RC FAQ of news:comp.lang.javascript <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-index.htm> jscr maths, dates, sources. <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> TP/BP/Delphi/jscr/&c, FAQ items, links.
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