Redirecting dynamic URLs

External Since: Nov 29, 2003 Posts: 28

Reasking the question in a more proper manner:

I recently move some pages in my site to a new directory and tried
telling this to the search engines with redirects, for instance:

Redirect 301 /galleries/Malaysia/Rest/img.php?pic=7
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Malaysia/Ipoh/img.php?pic=4
(all in one line)

This is in a .htaccess file in the directory
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Malaysia/Rest/

and doesn't work (ends up producing the error page).

But a redirect like this
Redirect 301 /galleries/Malaysia/Rest/imagehtm/image7.htm
http://www.molon.de/galleries/Malaysia/Ipoh/img.php?pic=4

works for instance.

Apparently the server doesn't like a dynamic address in the from part of
the redirect.

The question is then how do tell the search engine that the page has
moved. I've been told that with mod_rewrite you can at least make the
server serve the right page, but that doesn't tell the search engine to
update its URL. Any suggestions ?

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Alfred Molon

http://www.molon.de/Galleries.htm - Photos from Myanmar, Brunei,
Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Egypt, Austria, Budapest and
Portugal

External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 1662

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molon.DeleteThis@yahooDELETE.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1af4bb5b60d23a6b98a5f3@news.supernews.com...

> The question is then how do tell the search engine that the page has
> moved. I've been told that with mod_rewrite you can at least make the
> server serve the right page, but that doesn't tell the search engine to
> update its URL. Any suggestions ?

As I said last time. I do it with PHP. Easy. If you must insist on
..htaccess, and keep getting problems, then good luck.
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Charles Sweeney
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