[thelist] Subdomain name mapping

[deke]

On 4 May 2001, at 11:13, Daniel J. Cody posted a message which said:

> One thing you may want to find out is if they can provide a permanent
> redirect for you.. You can do this by passing a 302 code in the HTTP
> header along with the new URL info.. The 302 is for a 'permanent
> redirect' and will let any automated bots, spiders, etc that they need
> to update their records to point to the new URL.

He says the server is being "binned" (and I suspect he means
/dev/null rather than /bin), and everybody is being moved over to the
new domain. 

If there isn't a host on the old domain, it's going to be darned hard
to return a 302 error - the user is going to get a DNS error instead.

What the company *should* be doing is setting up an httpd on the
IP looking for the old domain name. It doesn't need to serve pages 
- it just needs to do redirects. And a simple RedirectMatch could
send *all* requests for pages to the corresponding page on the new 
domain.

But I've never been very successful in solving problems by trying to
convincing someone else to do something that doesn't benefit him... 

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deke







 
> You can do this pretty easily in apache, and you can probably do it
> easily in IIS too.. Shout if you want more info :)
> 
> .djc.
> 
> Simon Coggins wrote:
> > 
> > > You should have a page that does the redirect right now and inform people of
> > > the coming move if the new stuff is set up, otherwise maybe add a popup to
> > > inform folks of the pending change? If your ISP's SysAdmins are any good
> > > they'll have redirects already configured for the sites they are going to
> > > move.
> > 
> > The redirect page is already up, I've submitted the change to search
> > engines, and I've been trawling through the referrer logs and emailing the
> > webmasters of the main sites that link to me, but I'd like a bit more time
> > to make the transition smoother. Unfortunately I was only given three
> > weeks notice. The problem is at present they're just going to switch the
> > old site off. No redirects - nothing.
> > 
> > I'm trying to persuade them to provide redirects, but I just wanted to
> > check that it was possible to redirect between domains like that,
> > especially given the fact that the server that served the old page is
> > getting binned.
> 
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