How do you redirect from an old web address/url to a new one?

Question

basicly want to redirect from old url to new one given to me as i cant use my own, plus i aint to good at the old web coding, programing thing.

Answer 1

automatically redirect a browser to another web page from one of your own Server-based redirect

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This is the preferred method of redirecting to other web pages, and additional information can be found at http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback.



As the main web server uses the Apache HTTP server program, here is how to do it on that system (for other systems' servers, see the references in the www.w3.org web page noted above).



Create a file in the directory in question called ".htaccess" and put into it the line



Redirect /path-of-file-to-be-redirected URL-of-page-to-go-to



For example, if you are a professor teaching the (fictitious - for the sake of the example only) PHY386 course during Spring Semester 2007, but you want to keep your web pages in a subdirectory of your own user area instead of in the courses area provided, you can go to the appropriate courses area on the server, /web/documents/courses/2007spring/PHY386 and put



Redirect /courses/2007spring/PHY386/index.html http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/username/subdir/index.htm



(all on one line, in case the above example is wrapped by your browser) into a file called .htaccess which has world-read permissions (that's the default).



The "path" argument is relative to the "web root", so in the above example, "/web/documents" is left off. The "page to go to" URL is a full URL, even if the web page is on the same server. More than one Redirect command can be put into the .htaccess file, and you can redirect all files in a directory to their equivalents in a "to go to" directory by leaving the filenames off.



If there is already a .htaccess file in the subdirectory in question, see the Apache HTTP server documentation to see where in it the Redirect command should be placed. If you are the person running the Apache web server program on a system, you can also put instances of the Redirect command into the server configuration file instead of, or in addition to, .htaccess files in specific subdirectories (again, see the Apache HTTP server documentation for the details).

"refresh" meta command



Note that this method is deprecated by the official HTML standards organization in favor of the server-based redirect method described above.



You can set up a web page to inform any browser which happens to load it that there is another web page it should go to instead, after an optional delay.



This is accomplished using a "refresh" meta command in the header section





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of your HTML file, along with the title and any "keywords" or other meta commands.

Syntax

The syntax for the "refresh" meta command is







where N is the approximate number of seconds that you want the current web page to be displayed before the browser automatically goes to the other web address. If N = 0, then the browser should go immediately to the other web address.

Netiquette tip

In case someone's browser doesn't handle these automatic redirects (most browsers do handle them, but some allow them to be turned off, as a way of discouraging "web spam", which often uses this type of "refresh" redirect), you may want to provide a second route to the intended destination by way of a standard link (see the example, below).

Example

















If your browser doesn't automatically go there within a few seconds,

you may want to go to

the destination

manually.









Select Example above or here to see how the example works in practice.

Notes on scripting languages

There are also ways of doing this with JavaScript, VBscript, and other internal web page scripting languages, but explaining them in detail is beyond the scope of this web page. A few examples may illustrate the method, however, and encourage users to obtain actual JavaScript documentation (a book, or online) to guide them in developing their own variants suited to their own needs.



The following JavaScript example, which would go ahead of the first flag on the web page, or between the and tags, opens the new site in the same browser window (effectively instead of the rest of the contents of the page that the script is in):









This JavaScript example opens the new site in the same browser window after displaying the current page in the window for 2 seconds (2000 ms):









(Note that this does exactly what the HTML META tag above does, but as the META tag method does not depend on the browser's having JavaScript available and active, in most cases the META tag method would be preferable).



The next JavaScript example opens the new site in a new* browser window:









* sometimes, the "new" window is one of those already opened in the session; this seems to be somewhat random, and I don't know if it's a browser bug or a "JavaScript thing" with the window.open command. Just note that browser behavior may not always be consistent if you use this script (or the next one, which also uses window.open). -- GJP.



This JavaScript example opens the new site in a new browser window after a 4.5 second (4500 ms) delay:









hope this helps



Cheers:)

Answer 2

look under { redirect from an old web address/url to a new one} web sites. no cost? that will do that for you.

Answer 3

You create a hyperlink and paste it on the old web address.

Answer 4

CONTENT="5; URL=html-redirect2.html">



change html-redirect2.html



to the websites which is the new one

Answer 5

3rd answer has all options try that one?