Posted by dorayme on 10/12/07 21:45

In article <TLidnb0XeZnkL5LanZ2dnUVZ_h_inZ2d@giganews.com>,
Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:

> On 10/12/07 04:56 am, David Segall wrote:
> > I have some pages on my web site that are no longer useful but I am
> > reluctant to simply delete them because they may be returned by a
> > search engine and, in any case, they are referenced in some Usenet
> > posts of mine which will never be deleted.
> >
> > My current plan is to amend them to indicate they are obsolete and
> > remove the links to them on my web site. The links on the obsolete
> > page would allow someone to browse back to the current site but not
> > vice versa.
> >
> > Is there a better or "standard" way of dealing with this problem?
>
> In <.htaccess> add this type of directive:
> Redirect permanent /oldpage.php http://example.com/newpage.php
>
> After a year or so change it to:
> Redirect gone /oldpage.php

Is this the idea that op should go ahead and remove the links and
tidy all up by collecting all the html target files concerned
into a folder obsolete/ and making a server side instruction to
redirect any one of them via an .htaccess file in which each url
is listed? I say this to see if you might clarify further with an
example of more than one url...

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dorayme

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