505 error page

External Since: Aug 07, 2003 Posts: 3

Hi All

Don't know if this can be done, I have a shared hosting with an ISP
and I want to restructure my directories on the server. I have various
domains pointing to my site which point to sub directories, and most
search engines have listed the sites.
Because I am moving the directories about is there anyway of setting
something up that will do the following

If a user tries to access
mydomain.co.uk/dir-a/A-Page.html (or any page in that directory)
then they get redirected to
mydomain.co.uk/new-dir-a/

The problem is /dir-a/ will no longer exists so the script of what ever
need to be somewhere so it runs every the main domain is accessed
and then looks up what the users was looking for and then redirects them
to where I need them

I Hope that makes sense and any help will be great.

External Since: Jul 30, 2003 Posts: 35

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Whilst lounging around on Thu, 7 Aug 2003 02:44:20 +0100, "Brian"
<brian.TakeThisOut@nrwp.co.uk> amazingly managed to produce the following with
their Etch-A-Sketch:

> Hi All
>
> Don't know if this can be done, I have a shared hosting with an ISP
> and I want to restructure my directories on the server. I have
> various domains pointing to my site which point to sub directories,
> and most search engines have listed the sites.
> Because I am moving the directories about is there anyway of
> setting something up that will do the following
>
> If a user tries to access
> mydomain.co.uk/dir-a/A-Page.html (or any page in that directory)
> then they get redirected to
> mydomain.co.uk/new-dir-a/
>
> The problem is /dir-a/ will no longer exists so the script of what
> ever need to be somewhere so it runs every the main domain is
> accessed
> and then looks up what the users was looking for and then redirects
> them to where I need them
>
> I Hope that makes sense and any help will be great.
>
>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/dir-a/(.*)$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://domain.com/new-dir-a/$1" target="_blank">http://domain.com/new-dir-a/$1</a>
[R=permanent,L]
RewriteRule ^/dir-b/(.*)$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://domain.com/new-dir-b/$1" target="_blank">http://domain.com/new-dir-b/$1</a>
[R=permanent,L]

(note: the above should be on 3 lines, may wrap in this post)

etc etc etc.

Using the $1 means that if they goto /dir-a/A-Page.html, this will
then redirect to /new-dir-a/A-Page.html etc. Whatever they specify
after /dir-a/ will be assumed in the new location (meaning that
google etc should find your "new" files too, rather than a
redirection straight to the dir only (no file)).

HTH =)

Regards,

Ian

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