301 permanent redirect

[ctn]

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

[Robbc4]

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 🙂

[ctn]

many thanks

[Robbc4]

Yeha this will work withouth a problem 🙂

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

[ab1]

Hi

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

[ab1]

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

[amsgroup]

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.

[pmillman]

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

[amsgroup]

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

[dave]

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.