Hi Graham, trust you're well.

Not sure what to use here.

I think I need to use a 302 redirect.

Server: Apache Web Server 1.3

Object is to redirect, temporarily, all the pages in my /public_html directory to a single page in the same directory. This is for updating an entire site. When done the .htaccess will be removed.

Is this possible?
Code:

Redirect / http://www.mydomain.com/tempage.html

Or to another directory:
Code:

Redirect / http://www.mydomain.com/tempage/tempage.html

?

I know I can use .htaccess for this by listing each page, just wondered if there was an easier way.

Hope you can help,
thanks - Ted


Personally I would use mod_rewrite, as this ensures that page is served in a single request and the name is preserved.   Could make a difference in search engine placements

Something like ...

RewriteEngine On
Rewrite *.html tempname.html

... in your .htaccess, but I am away at the moment and have writen that from memory

I'll check that out, thanks Graham

Graham, got it sorted (w/help from my tech suppt and server forum as well). Thought you'd like to see the solution.

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on Rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/update\.html$) [NC] RewriteRule (.*) /update\.html [R=302,L] </IfModule>

By having an "update page" in the web folder, an .htaccess with the above code in will redirect to that page. This happens with all sub-directories as well.

This works on my live server, but am not sure if it will work on all Apache servers (?) - I don't know if this sort of stuff is like Perl (101 ways to do the same thing).

Cheers - Ted

The two things this depends on are
(1) Is mod_rewrite loaded and
(2) Does the main httpd.conf file allow for .htaccess overrides.

Thanks Graham, trust you got back okay (easily)  

Still away, Ted ... posting from New York state!

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