Redirecting A 5 Year Old Site With NO HTACCESS or PHP?!

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Dio, Sep 23, 2006.

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    I've been looking around for a nice easy way to do this, but I'm struggling. I think I have about 2000 pages on a site, all hand made and they've been up for a long time. The problem is, it's my ISPs free space and I have No access to HTACCESS, and I am unable to use PHP on there either.

    There's a duplicate of the domain on it's own space that I want to redirect to - does anyone have any ideas how I could quickly redirect these pages away from the old domain, dump all the content on the old domain and still get some SE love as they're such old pages?

    This is what I think I should do:

    Option 1: replace every file in the old site with a blank page with a link to the new domain's root index - and, a meta refresh of around 10 seconds.

    Option 2: relplace every file in the old site with a blank page, but this time, the link goes to the corresponding file on the new site. (Way too time consuming)

    Option 3: ???

    Any ideas are appreciated.
     
    Dio, Sep 23, 2006 IP
  2. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    #2
    Do you have SSI on all the files? You can place

    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=URL">

    on one file. Though I'm not sure what the search engines think of it.
     
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  3. Dio

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    Nah - no SSis or anything like that as far as I know - just plain old vanilla html pages.
     
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    If you have the exact same text in every header, get a search and replace program to add the code....if you want all the pages to go to the same URL.
     
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    Dio Well-Known Member

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    I'm starting to think that's the best option :)
     
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    what about perl? quite a few free webhosts support it.
     
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    scrap the perl idea, you can do redirects through google sitemaps. Obviously that won't work for yahoo and msn but i guess its a start
     
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    Well, in the end I took the quick and easy option - they're all on a meta refresh (the joys of DreamWeaver templates :)) to the root page of the second domain. I gave up fussing and just left them, the domain they've gone too has a lot of age as well - so there's no point sweating it.
     
    Dio, Sep 24, 2006 IP