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301 permanent redirect

ctn — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:04:15 GMT

Can anyone advise whether you can set up a 301 permanent redirect on a domain name reigstered through btconnect.

i have searched the forums to no avail as all i can see is the URL or Frame redirection. If anyone does know how you can do this through your account option i would be extremley grateful.

Many thanks

Re: 301 permanent redirect

Robbc4 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:06:09 GMT

It shouldn't be a problem (Not 100% though).

BT's server is apache and all you would need is .htaccess setup so that the redirect can work.
I will test this on my webspace and let you know my findings 🙂

Re: 301 permanent redirect

ctn — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:49:58 GMT

many thanks

Re: 301 permanent redirect

Robbc4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:44:14 GMT

Yeha this will work withouth a problem 🙂

Just make sure you have the .htaccess file located in the public folder 🙂

Re: 301 permanent redirect

ab1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:32:14 GMT

I've been reading this thread because I'm trying to do the same, a redirect 301 from our BT website to our new website hosted by another provider.

The BT DNS team have helpfully advised me it is beyond their remit to do a redirect 301 - Great service!

I have already created a .htaccess file and placed it in our public folder on the BT server with the instruction I believe should work:

redirect 301 /ourBTdomain/ http..newwebsite-url

But this does not seem to have any effect.

I know the BT server is looking at the .htaccess file, because when I deliberately place wrong code in the file, when I attempt to access the website shows it shows a server error.

Any comments, suggestion or advice about what I am doing or not doing to make this work! Please let me know.

Thanks

Re: 301 permanent redirect

ab1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:17:31 GMT

Hi,

I posted the last message when I was having difficulty sorting the redirect 301 code.

I have now found out how to do it, mainly through trial and error and some friendly suggestions.

Thanks to anyone who was thinking about replying to my post anyway.

Bye

Re: 301 permanent redirect

amsgroup — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:12:10 GMT

Hi.

I also want to set up a 301 re-direct and I also can't get the .htaccess file to work.

Could you post what it was you discovered that made it work?

Thanks.

Re: 301 permanent redirect

pmillman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:12:53 GMT

Hi,

When adding the redirect entry in your .htaccess file, please make sure it is exactly like the following, including the upper case letter:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://google.com/

I've tested this and it works like a charm. Just replace "index.html" with your homepage name if it is different and replace "http://google.com" with the URL you want it forwarded to.

Peter

Re: 301 permanent redirect

amsgroup — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:38:51 GMT

Hi Peter

Thanks very much for such a quick reply!

I changed my .htaccess file as you suggested (I didn't have a capital 'R' in redirect), but it still doesn't work. I have tried various different combinations and this is the contents of my last attempt .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 / http://www.myurl.co.uk/index.htm

I have put this .htaccess file in the root folder, the 'public' folder and the other folders, but it has no effect.

I am trying to redirect from a BTconnect free website - does this make a difference?

Thanks again for your help.

Alex

Re: 301 permanent redirect

dave — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:59:43 GMT

The free webspace does not support .htaccess files so this will never work. You would instead need to do this using an HTML meta refresh tag.

Re: 301 permanent redirect

amsgroup — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:05:40 GMT

Hi Dave.

Forgive my ignorance, but how do I do that?

Thanks.

Alex

Re: 301 permanent redirect

pmillman — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:04:05 GMT

Your meta refresh would be located in the "Head" of your HTML code and should look like this:

This will redirect to the URL of your choice.

Peter

Re: 301 permanent redirect

amsgroup — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:25:40 GMT

Hi Peter.

Great, thanks for your help!

Merry Christmas.

Alex

Re: 301 permanent redirect

pmillman — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:47:40 GMT

np, you have yourself a merry Xmas too! 🙂