Search Engines Going to Old Pages

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Gregg

I have pages coming up on seach engines that I do not want the public to see.
I can put them in a different folder, but that will break the link, which
will take the visitor to a "this page cannot be found" page ( like this:
http://www.salesimaging.com/gregg ).

How do I create a default page that actually takes someone to my site
(similar to this... http://www.cnn.com/gregg ).
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

You could create a default page, index.htm(l) and place in the folder with a link to your site. You
can also create a default 404 page, but since your site in under Unix/Linux you would have to edit
the .htaccess file to implement. I don't work with Unix/Linux so I can not help you with this.

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G

Gregg

Thanks. My server folks tell me I need to write a code and create default
webpages and upload to my domain directory.

Is this easy or hard to do? Do you know anyone who I can pay to do this for
me?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Gregg,

Check your email.

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C

cookoonest

Here is a short tutorial on how to create a .htaccess page.

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Create Custom Error Pages

We'll start with the most common use for this file. This is
relatively simple in comparison to our next steps. Your
first step is to design your custom web pages for the
errors. They should keep the same template as your site,
but should inform the visitor that they experienced an
error.

The most common error pages are 404, 401 and 500. You
aren't limited to these errors as you could create an
error page for each and every error.

So now you have it complete. Great, next thing you need to
do is open up an ASCII text editor such as windows notepad.

Starting from the top of your page, write this:

ErrorDocument 404 <http://www.domain.com/404.html>
ErrorDocument 401 <http://www.domain.com/401.html>
ErrorDocument 500 <http://www.domain.com/500.html>

Keep in mind to replace the URL's with the pages you have
just uploaded. Now you can try to save it as .htaccess,
but in my experience, windows does not allow it. Why?
Because there is nothing before the first period and only
an extension. Remember, this page is for an Apache server,
usually run on Linux or Unix. Windows does not understand
this at all.

Your solution is to save the file as htaccess.txt, then
upload it to your server. This file is uploaded into the
root of your public_html directory. Be sure it is uploaded
in ASCII form or it won't work. After doing that, you
should use your ftp client and rename the file to it's
proper name.

Now any errors that occur will be directed to the
appropriate pages.
 
R

Ronx

Follow that tutorial and say goodbye to your FrontPage extensions.
FrontPage uses the .htaccess file for its own purposes, so if you overwrite
the existing file with your own, the extensions will be effectively blown
away.

You can, however, edit the existing file. Use an FTP program to download.
Make a backup.
Add your extra lines to the bottom of the file and then upload, again using
FTP.

Do this at your own risk. My own host advises that if the .htaccess file is
edited the extensions will no longer work at all.
 
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