Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/21/06 17:41

JB wrote:
[top-posting corrected]
> In article <4sgq4vFvol05U1@mid.individual.net>,
> hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net says...
>> JB wrote:
>>> Ok, I have an old web page where I want the entire page to redirect to a
> new
>>> one.
>>>
>>> The old one is (some content edited)
>>>
>>> http://intergate.ca/personal/name/index.htm
>>>
>>> The new web page is:
>>>
>>> http://www.newpage.com
>>>
>>> I have made an .htaccess file using notepad, making sure it's not saved as
> a
>>> .txt file.
>>>
>>> Notepad has wordwrap off.
>>>
>>> In the file I have:
>>>
>>> redirect 301 / http://www.newpage.com
>>>
>>> I have uploaded it to the root directory of the old site using CuteFTP in
>>> ascii transfer mode.
>>>
>>> Now when I access http://intergate.ca/personal/name/index.htm
>>>
>>> It wants to go here:
>>>
>>> http://www.newpage.compersonal/name/index.htm
>>>
>>> That is the exact URL that I get above, except for "newpage" and "name"
> have
>>> been changed.
>>>
>>> So what am I doing wrong?
>> redirect 301 / http://www.newpage.com/
>
> Thanks, but now I get this:
>
> http://www.newpage.com/personal/name/
>
> Which is pretty much what I figured would happen after adding the "/" :)
>
> I can't get rid of that stupid directory name from my old site, being
joined
> with the new.

Sorry, I misunderstood. OK, you want to replace

http://intergate.ca/persona/name/index.htm

with

http://www.newpage.com/index.htm

which amounts to changing

/persona/name/

to

http://www.newpage.com/

So

redirect 301 /persona/name/ http://www.newpage.com/

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