Old Page Redirect to New

Hello,

If I were to change my pages from thispage.html to thispage.php or this-page.html how would I make sure that the old page will redirect to the new one?

 

There are probably several different ways of doing this, but if you have access to your ".htaccess" file then you could add this line in it:

Redirect /thispage.html http://yoursite.com/thispage.php

Code (markup):

 

or on thispage.html you could put

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="4;url=http://www.domain.com/link.html">

HTML:

content=4 - this number is how many seconds until it redirects
url= - url you want to redirect this page to.

 

or you can use this as well

<?
header(Location : "http://www.yourwebsite.com");
?>

PHP:

 

If you are changing all of them, you'd use something like this in .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
rewriterule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [r=301,nc]

Code (markup):

 

i think changing your .htaccess file is the easiest option

 

I have access to the .htaccess file so I will probably use this option. Thanks a bunch folks.

 

Or simply use javascript location.href to redirect it...

 

If you have a plan to have an SEO for your site someday, take off this code. G will penalize this meta refresh

 

Quite right. Never use meta redirects in this situation.

 

why you cant use the php header redirect ?

 

for SEO purposes, you are betting off using the 301 redirect within your htaccess file.

 

Hi
php redirection is much better then any other.

 

Using the php redirect in this case, from my point of view, may create more work for both the webmaster and the web server.

The webmaster would have to enable php scripting for files with the .html extension, causing a performance hit to requests for all files with that extension. The webmaster has to insert the redirect code into all the the files he or she wants to redirect, and the server has to send all html files, regardless, to be preprocessed by php. Ne?