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Subject : Re: LUG: Permanent redirect of NCSU webpage

From : Ben Berry <bsberry@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:25:53 -0400

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I don't think that's that it.  The ability to do a sitewide redirect implies that you have control of the apache server already, which implies that you *are* the owner of said domain.  If that's the case, you're perfectly allowed to to use .htaccess redirects, and is, I believe, how it's done.

Isn't this his NCSU site? The space hosted on NC State's servers, meaning he doesn't control it? This isn't a sitewide redirect, he's just putting a .htaccess in his folder, to redirect everything in that folder...?

Ben



On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Kevin Hunter < hunteke@earlham.[redacted] > wrote:
At 1:58pm -0600 Mon, 05 Jul 2010, Ben Berry wrote:
I would also note that redirects and other .htaccess directives might
be disallowed to prevent spoofing (i.e. Get someone to click a link to
a . ncsu.edu address and the redirect them somewhere else).

I don't think that's that it.  The ability to do a sitewide redirect implies that you have control of the apache server already, which implies that you *are* the owner of said domain.  If that's the case, you're perfectly allowed to to use .htaccess redirects, and is, I believe, how it's done.


If all else fails, a meta refresh tag will get the job done, if be not
quite as canonical.

I think he specifically doesn't want to do it this way because, as I recall that doesn't keep his Google rankings.

Kevin

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