redirect an entire webpage...

linuxtricks · Jan 25, 2002

My companies website is going under construction. I'd like to be able to have any page that is accessed on the website redirected to an "Under Construction" page.

What is the best way of doing this? ---
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Newposter · Jan 25, 2002

I use this HTML code to redirect automatically to another page without intervention:

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH"
content="4;URL=http://domain.com/index2.htm">

Insert this in the <head> section of code. The "4" is a 4-second timer, you can pick the appropriate interval.

Don't know if there's an efficient way to do a mass update on all your pages to redirect, but you can put this in your main page.

linuxtricks · Jan 25, 2002

Actually, I was looking to redirect more than just one page. More like the entire domain. =)

Nevertheless, I got it going.
I did this:

1. vi httpd.conf
ErrorDocument 404

http://domain.com/index.html

ErrorDocument 402

http://domain.com/index.html

ErrorDocument 500

http://domain.com/index.html

2. mv htdocs/ htdocs.bak/

3. mkdir htdocs/

Then, just created an under construction page called 'index.html' and put it onto the htdocs folder.

Now, when someone enters

http://www.domain.com/ANTHING_HERE,

they get redirected to the htdocs/index.html file.

Works great. Thanks!

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