[thelist] Advice on Redirect

Sylvia Braunstein sbraun at rugged.com
Sun Sep 14 10:30:29 CDT 2003


Thank you very much, I will try that even though I use Dreamweaver and I
thought it was doing that automatically.

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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Simon Willison
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Subject: Re: [thelist] Advice on Redirect


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

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