[thelist] Advice on Redirect

[Simon Willison]

Sylvia Braunstein wrote:

> I was told to remove some products from our website and redirected the html
> files to avoid error messages. However, I deleted all the pdfs and the
> jpgs/gifs. The last error log (from the site that checks our links) was huge
> (hundreds of pages) and mostly related to the removal of the pictures and
> pdfs.
> How do I avoid these error logs from occurring without taking a chance that
> someone will accidentally hit those urls?

You just need to remove all of the links from pages in your site to 
files that have now been removed - the error log should tell you which 
pages have links that are now broken.

Cheers,

Simon