Re: LUG: Permanent redirect of NCSU webpage - Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:47:02 -0600

Subject : Re: LUG: Permanent redirect of NCSU webpage

From : Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:47:02 -0600

At 3:25pm -0600 Mon, 05 Jul 2010, Ben Berry wrote:
>> 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...?

I can't speak to the ability to use the .htaccess with NCSU's setup, but
I have in the past used .htaccess to redirect from arbitrary directories
to arbitrary other URLs. You're right that he doesn't have control of
the root ncsu.edu domain so he can't do that redirect, but he should
(depending on the configuration of the NCSU apache instance) be able to
301 redirect to his new site just fine.

N.B. it's been about four years since I've last done this particular bit
of mojo, so I'm perfectly willing to accept that my information may be
out of date.

Kevin

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