making old url go to new one
I am sure many people bookmarked the old url:
http://www.webmaster-forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi
and are wondering why they can't get into the forums
maybe just create a simple script to forward people to the new one or just put a little message up.
Travis
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Justin S posted this at 18:55 — 1st July 2000.
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You can use the following CGI script...
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Location: [url]http://216.10.4.112/forums/index.php\n\n";[/url]
Anonymous posted this at 21:32 — 1st July 2000.
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Or.. You could just use .htaccess and put a redirect line.
Redirect /cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi http://www.webmaster-forums/forums/index.php
werehere posted this at 21:52 — 2nd July 2000.
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Redirecting just Ultimate.cgi is not smart. A lot of people have forumdisplays bookmarked, so the best is to delete the cgi scripts completely and then make a simple custom 404 for that folder and redirect all requests for any of the scripts to the new forum home page. Same goes for your whole UBB html directories as well.
We're Here Forums!
Anonymous posted this at 22:31 — 2nd July 2000.
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The current 404-page shows a link to the new start-page, what is so difficult about just changing bookmarks like I did?
werehere posted this at 22:35 — 2nd July 2000.
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No, my old bookmark:
http://www.webmaster-forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi
goes to a plain old 404 page with a link to:
http://www.webmaster-forums.com
Surely that is not as good as directing me automatically to the new forum home, which is where I wanted to be?
We're Here Forums!
Megan posted this at 20:04 — 17th July 2000.
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I know, old topic. Something needs to be done about this. I've been duitifully checking my old bookmark almost every day for the past two weeks but nothing has been happening, so I assumed that you guys were having some problems and kept checking.
I didn't realize it had been that long! You could have at least sent out an e-mail saying that the forum is back. I got a couple about the switch over but nothing to tell me that it was working again
Did anybody miss me? Yeah, right... I didn't think so.
Megan
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