[thelist] What is the Best Practice for Single Page Redirects?

Mark Groen mark at markgroen.com
Fri Jul 11 00:04:48 CDT 2003


On July 10, 2003 at 19:38, Pat Meeks wrote:

> Question:
> I do my permaent redirects in .htaccess files on an Apache server
> using PermanentRedirect (aka 301). Is this the same as putting a "301
> code in in HTTP headers", and will Google note the change and change
> it in their index?

Yep, same thing. syntax that works in .htaccess:

redirect 301 /somedirectory/oldfile.html http://www.domain.com/newfile.html

careful to maintain the spaces

Regards,

	Mark Groen

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