[thelist] Domain Names...

[Erik Bennett]

Hrrrm... I fear my first post wasn't clear enough...

I'm aware that I could put just a regular page up at
http://www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us/index.html with the redirect to
http://www.ecasd.k12.wi.us. In fact, that's what I was planning on doing.

What I was asking was, we want to stop using www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us
altogether, but like I said, I still have over 1,000 requests coming through
it a day, so I don't want to just turn it off completely.

What I want to do is set it up so that any request that comes through
www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us, whether it be
www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us/foo/bar.html or
www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us/bar/foo.html the user sees the redirect page
that states "www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us will no longer be used, blah blah
blah, update your bookmarks, blah, go here instead." Like I asked before,
would this be easier to take care of with the custom 404 page?

The 301 redirect solution provided is interesting. Does that have any
bearing on what I would like to do?

Also, reposting/rewording this question has raised another for me. Say I get
the single page to work, does anyone have a simple (preferably ASP, also
could be PERL) solution for pulling in the current URL typed in and
reformatting it to display on the page in the new format? (i.e.
www.central.ecasd.k12.wi.us/bar/foo.html = www.ecasd.k12.wi.us/bar/foo.html)

Thanks for the replies, I hope my repost clarifies things a little better. I
have a tendency to be long-winded... :-)

Once again, we're an (unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your
viewpoint ;-) ) all MS shop, so we've got Microsoft NT 4/2K servers, IIS 4
and all that jazz. Only thing I insisted on also having was PERL, because
let's face it, how could I survive without it? :-)

Thanks in advance for any replies!

Erik

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Erik Bennett
ECASD Webmaster				Network Accounts
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