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Start Page

Posted: Mon 14. Jun 2004, 00:17
by captaincrash
Hey, how can I redirect the start page to something other than the first arcticle in the hiearchy.

Posted: Mon 14. Jun 2004, 00:55
by colech
Try this simple and dirty approach:
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"> is the part that actually does the redirecting.

The number preceding the url (in this case zero) tells the browser the number of seconds to wait before redirecting to the new url.

You could set this to 5 and add some optional text to your page - something like:

"Please wait while we redirect you to our new site".

That's it! Just copy the code, save it (i.e. save as index.html) and your html redirect will work perfectly.

Posted: Mon 14. Jun 2004, 02:35
by DeXXus
Don't forget that if you haven't deleted "index.html" you can modify and use it for such purposes, too :wink:

Re: Start Page

Posted: Mon 14. Jun 2004, 03:45
by Pappnase
captaincrash wrote:Hey, how can I redirect the start page to something other than the first arcticle in the hiearchy.
hello

create an an article in the the root of the index site structure, and there you have the field "redirect" there you can add e.g. index.php?alias so you can redirect to every stucture level you want!

Posted: Mon 14. Jun 2004, 08:52
by Oliver Georgi
always use full URL in redirect fields like
"http://www.mysite.com/index.php?start"

Oliver

Posted: Tue 15. Jun 2004, 01:15
by captaincrash
Thanks guys, as always you are all a great help.