Redirect question...

Timfy

A press release for a website that we have mashed together has been released. Unfortunately, the URL included was incorrect.

Should have been domain/win.html
What was sent domain/win

Is there any way to set up a simple redirect that sends .../win to .../win.html

Obviously if it was an incorrect spelling I could just set up a quick and dirty redirect script on the "wrong" page and if there was the trailing / I could just mirror the directory but no, nothing that simple.

Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted... cheers all!

JDxtra

Create a folder called "win". Inside here, place an index.htm file that contains your redirect code.

igCorcaigh

Can you create a folder called win and tgen create a default.html file which contains a redirect.

It's nasty, I know.

Depending on your server setup, there's probably a better way.

igCorcaigh

JDxtra wrote: »

Create a folder called "win". Inside here, place an index.htm file that contains your redirect code.

Aha, great minds eh?

Timfy

Guys... a thousand thank yous to you both. So bloody simple that I didn't even try that... I assumed that the lack of trailing / would throw that out the window!!!

Superstars!

Timfy

Thread can be closed now.

igCorcaigh

Timfy wrote: »

I assumed that the lack of trailing / would throw that out the window!!!

It won't, because the url lacks a file extension, and so the server will interpret win as a folder name.

daymobrew

I would think that a .htaccess file with a 301 redirect would be quicker for the browser:

Redirect 301 /win https://domain.com/win.html
Redirect 301 /win/index.hml https://domain.com/win.html

You'd have to experiment to find which one works as it would depend on what the server sees the incoming request as.