Can this be done?

minton posted this at 21:16 — 30th May 2000.

Joined: Nov 1999

Ok, I didnt know where to put this so please just move it to the forum that it belongs in.

OK, my website is hosted by a company called freenetname.co.uk. They give you a free* domain name (.co.uk) and host it for free*. Unfortunetly they are... how do I put it?... **** and so I want out. Now the problems set in. When I signed up i never thought my site would be getting the amount of traffic aday that it is now so i was not bothered by the fact that they owned the domain and that if i wanted out as i do now I had to pay £94 ($150 i think) to transfer doamin ownership to me. Well, they dont have a cgi-bin or anything so i want to move hosts which is going to cost me that much. the cost of the host is not a problem as I am getting it for free (will i ever learn ) but what i want to know is this:

Is there a way to monitor a domain so that when it is accessed a different page will show. IE, when i am transferring my domain to this new host and freenetname are no longer hosting it (so a 404 will be shown) there will be something monitoring all the attempts to access the site and it will redirect it to another page at another location so that a 404 will not be shown. Is thsi at all possible and sorry fot hther lengthy post and pleasde move to whatevrr forum it belongs ion.
Thanks

*not free at all, a ton of strings attached etc

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Ken Elliott posted this at 20:07 — 31st May 2000.

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Joined: Jun 1999

The only way for you to redirect the traffic is to leave a .htaccess file in your website root folder on the old server. The .htaccss file must contain only this

code:

Redirect /order http://your_domain.com/directory/directory/ 
[/code]

Hope that helps.

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