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Old June 16th, 2003, 03:07 PM
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Redirecting users to a script whilst remaining searchable?
Hi, I'm hoping I might get some help with a little problem. I have a script at http://www.rateamate.net/cgi-bin/ez...ezPhotoRate.cgi

What I'm after is user entry instantly into the site script from typing the domain address at www.rateamate.net

It doesn't matter what the address bar shows as long as typing www.rateamate.net takes the user straight to http://www.rateamate.net/cgi-bin/ez...ezPhotoRate.cgi

Natrually I want the site to be visible to search engine spiders/robots.

I'm really struggling with this one and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi,

You can use mod rewrite in htaccess if you are running on an Apache web server, see this page of the manual for more info and search the forums for mod rewrite.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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another solution (webserver independent)
Hi malc,

You could also just do a redirect using JavaScript from your index.html page:

Code:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.setTimeout('window.location=" http://www.rateamate.net/cgi-bin/ez...ezPhotoRate.cgi ";',delay);
// --></script>


delay -> an integer that defines how many milliseconds to delay before redirecting (1 second = 1000 milliseconds)

It's not as good as Silky's method, which is more efficient, but it will work.

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Old June 21st, 2003, 05:28 AM
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Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

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Lightbulb captain planet!
....Malc is in Cheltenham....

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....Nao is in North Wales....

....with these forces combined, we become CAPTAIN UK DEVSHED!...


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Old June 23rd, 2003, 01:49 AM
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How true.

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Ummm well I'm in Swindon UK via Brazil
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alternatively, if its an IIS server, you can use the IIS plug-in to set the default document as something like index.cgi /php /html /whatever you want....

an I'm in Glos (well actually Brecon atm...), but from Glos
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