Grover
Fri 30th Jul '04, 8:59am
Hi,
I have the following directory-structure on my server:
/public_html
/public_html/site1
/public_html/site2
Forget about site 2: On site 1 there's my VBulletin-forum.
Right, when a visitor goes to www.site1.nl (http://www.site1.nl/) , a server-configuration redirects the user to /public_html/site1. I do not use .htaccess in /public_html
The thing is: I do not have content pages yet, so my 'site1' consist only of my VB forum. Since my forum is located at: /public_html/site1/forum, I had to re-direct my visitors to that map. So I created an index.htm in /public_html/site1 with this content:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Recently I learned (see: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm) that search-engine spiders do not like a meta-refresh. So I changed the above file to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<! -- meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php" -- >
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
... and added a .htaccess-file to /public_html/site1 with this content:
Redirect /index.htm http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php
My question is : I have read somewhere (but can not find it back) that even a .htaccess has it's cons in this matter and that it would be best to use a javascript-solution for redirecting a page.
Is this true, or is the above solution good enough?
I have the following directory-structure on my server:
/public_html
/public_html/site1
/public_html/site2
Forget about site 2: On site 1 there's my VBulletin-forum.
Right, when a visitor goes to www.site1.nl (http://www.site1.nl/) , a server-configuration redirects the user to /public_html/site1. I do not use .htaccess in /public_html
The thing is: I do not have content pages yet, so my 'site1' consist only of my VB forum. Since my forum is located at: /public_html/site1/forum, I had to re-direct my visitors to that map. So I created an index.htm in /public_html/site1 with this content:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Recently I learned (see: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm) that search-engine spiders do not like a meta-refresh. So I changed the above file to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<! -- meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php" -- >
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
... and added a .htaccess-file to /public_html/site1 with this content:
Redirect /index.htm http://www.site1.nl/forum/index.php
My question is : I have read somewhere (but can not find it back) that even a .htaccess has it's cons in this matter and that it would be best to use a javascript-solution for redirecting a page.
Is this true, or is the above solution good enough?