[ic] PVT PVT I had this in html before - goofed,

Grant interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Jan 6 18:17:01 2003


>Below are the directions I used:
>
>
>1) Create a file in Notepad called htaccess.txt and store it in
>same directory on your hard drive as your index.html file.
>2) put lines like these in it:
>
>Send a permanent redirect from our old files to our new files and
>to handle 404 Errors
>errorDocument 404 /page-not-found.html
>Redirect permanent /old-missing-page-1.html
>http://www.your-url.com/new-replacement-page->1.html
>Redirect
>permanent /old-missing-page-2.html
>http://www.your-url.com/new-replacement-page-2.html
>
>3) save the file to your hard drive
>4) upload to your root directory on your host server.
>5) rename the file to ".htaccess" (without the quotes)
>6) test it to make sure it works!
>
>
>I had no luck, though I did find myself trying a lot of things in
>this formula, as I felt my take on it was
>different than the author meant it to be.  I was either having
>early senior moments or an attack of
>dyslexia, heaven knows but the result or answer won't come through
>my tiny brain. ;)  I'm self taught
>and perhaps too much a point and click, visual learner.  I tried
>such variations as
>/biz/6/desertmoonprofiles etc and nothing would help shake this
>into gear.  I couldn't tell where
>I should be typing this code for sure either, in the body of the
>page or the meta tags?
>
>The current site is:
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/desertmoonprofiles/
>
>The new site is:
>
>a domain set up ready to go, desertmoonprofiles.com
>
>Thanks so much for your help and your time!
>
>Web Site Creator
>DesertMoon9@msn.com

I might be able to help you with this as I use .htaccess for redirecting
myself.  What do you have where right now as far as the .htaccess file and
its contents?

- Grant