hopefully a simple question

hi,

can you help? if I have a site under one url and want to redirect another url to a specific page on that site, what's the best way to do it?

thanks,
adam

if you site is using php it's fairly easy
or .htaccess if you have a linux server.
aswell as javascript (but some people disable it)

Following on from what Alex said:

.htaccess way:- http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml (best way)

PHP redirect:- http://php.net/header

Javascript redirect (wouldnt recommend):- http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptredirect.php

Personally i would go with the PHP/.htaccess version.

Good luck!

Thanks, I'll need it. The first link you kindly provided seems just the thing, the only thing I'm not sure of is where (via FTP?) the .htaccess file should be placed. The domain I want it in shows empty html and cgi-bin folders, does it belong in either of those?

in public_html

As Alex said the public_html or www folder. AKA, the root of your web server.

quick question.
if its in root (public_html)
does it apply to all subfolders?

Yes, normally depending on how it is written it does apply to sub-folders. Although, it will not apply to sub-domains, or addon-domains.

Ahh thanks
I'm going to try and master htaccess,
it's a shame there aren't many good tutorials on it
well at least not any i have found

Me neither.. Thanks for all your help. I use Media Temple Gridserver account under the main domain eostreorganics.org. I have several other domains hosted on that account, they count as sub domains, at least I think so.
When I access the server at the root there are several folders, like so




all the URLs are in the domains folder. I want to reroute londonorganics.info to eostreorganics.org/wherelondon.html

I'm not sure what exactly needs to be written in the .htaccess file, but I'm guessing something along the lines of

Redirect 301 londonorganics.org/index.html http://www.eostreorganics.org/wherelondon.html

Only, as you can see in the .jpg, there is already an .htaccess file at the server's root level. It was created when the gridserver account was created and contains, as far as I can tell, the following code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^domains/[^\/]+/html/webstats[/]?$ https://beta-ac.mediatemple.net/services/manage/grid/reports/urchin/xxxxxx/urchin.cgi [R]

So, I'm guessing I need to edit that existing .htaccess file. Have I got that much right?
If so, anyone got any idea what the .htaccess file's code should be to achieve what I want?