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Re: Update URL's From Patrick R at http://www.growspot.com on 8 May '00 replying to Re: Update URL's posted by ck >What is a htacess file, I have a lot of separate pages that redirect to the index page, which I offer other products is that what you mean? Oh looking at your web site, it's nice but I noticed a lot broken images. A .htaccess file is a file that can be used to handle redirects, passwords and a whole host of things. to redirect: RedirectPermanent /bad/file.html http://www.domain.com/good/file.html (This is what you'd want:) Redirect /old/item1.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item1.htm Redirect /old/item2.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item2.htm Redirect /old/item3.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item3.htm etc. (you might want to use full urls for both, depending on the layour of your site) remember to put the spaces. You can also customize your own error documents: errordocument 404 /404.html where 404.htm is an html file with "Sorry, 404 error" or some other such thing. I just have a directory error_docs, so my .htaccess file would be: errordocument 404 error_docs/404.html You need to have telnet or ftp access to change your .htaccess file though, else you'll need to ask your web host administrator to help you out. (I recommend Hurricane Electric at http://www.he.net, the have a great self-serve web-hosting which is great if you know what you're doing) Check out http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/ for more HTTPd Tutorials PS. GrowSpot is still beta (we're doing data entry for the e-commerce section right now, then we're going to get the photos up, so yeah, some picts aren't there) check back end of May! Cheers!

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>>What is a htacess file, I have a lot of separate pages that redirect to the index page, which I offer other products is that what you mean? Oh looking at your web site, it's nice but I noticed a lot broken images. > >A .htaccess file is a file that can be used to handle redirects, passwords and a whole host of things. > >to redirect: > >RedirectPermanent /bad/file.html http://www.domain.com/good/file.html > >(This is what you'd want:) > >Redirect /old/item1.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item1.htm >Redirect /old/item2.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item2.htm >Redirect /old/item3.htm http://domain.com/old_items/item3.htm >etc. > >(you might want to use full urls for both, depending on the layour of your site) > >remember to put the spaces. > >You can also customize your own error documents: > >errordocument 404 /404.html > >where 404.htm is an html file with "Sorry, 404 error" or some other such thing. I just have a directory error_docs, so my .htaccess file would be: > >errordocument 404 error_docs/404.html > >You need to have telnet or ftp access to change your .htaccess file though, else you'll need to ask your web host administrator to help you out. (I recommend Hurricane Electric at http://www.he.net, the have a great self-serve web-hosting which is great if you know what you're doing) > >Check out http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/ for more HTTPd Tutorials > >PS. > >GrowSpot is still beta (we're doing data entry for the e-commerce section right now, then we're going to get the photos up, so yeah, some picts aren't there) check back end of May! > >Cheers!