[ic] index.htm / index.html
Mike Heins
mike at perusion.com
Tue Jan 17 14:06:39 EST 2006
Quoting Brian (brianmac at brimac.com):
>
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:22:57 +0100
> "Eric Bont" <eric_bont at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My old site (html website) used index.htm. This site has a high google
> > ranking using www.xxx.com/index.htm
> >
> > My new interchange site (same domainname other ip) use as startpage
> > index.html instead of index.htm
> >
> > My problem is that all the (old) Google links are now dead links looking for
> > .htm instead .html
> >
> > I made copy of pages/index.html to pages/index.htm but it still doesn't
> > work. What else can I do?
> >
>
> If you have shell access you can make a link from the old index.htm to
> the new index.html (assumes some kind of unix o.s.):
>
> ln -s index.html index.htm
This won't work for Interchange.
But on the Apache side, it is easy to do with the mod_rewrite
module:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/index.htm$ http://www.yoursite.com/index.html [L,R=301]
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Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.765.647.1295 tollfree 800-949-1889 <mike at perusion.com>
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