How To technical question 100 DNF

[bidawinner]

I have a domain with previous link pop and as usual I set up servers for the domain then check where the traffic is going to :
for example if I hada domain widgets.us and the previous owner had 50 pages like widegets.us/blue.htm widgets.us/red.htm widgets.us/green.htm ..

Then I would of course build the same pages to gather whatever treaffic was their before..

Well today I stumbled across a problem ..

I am seeing seeing in my logs.. old pages like widgets.us/blue/

widgets.us/green/ etc.. without htm or html or any extension?

So I made a few page named widgets.us/blue (wont let me add a trailing /)

The page actually works BUT when I look at all the old inbound links they dont work ..

I find a website that has a inbound link to the domain and click on the link http://widgets.us/blue/ and it wont resolve to the page I made http://widgets.us/blue

100 DNF to help me sort this out

 

[Spider]

What you should do is create a .htaccess file that will redirect all 404 traffic to your index. The top line should say

ErrorDocument 404 /index.htm or ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yahoo.com if you want to redirect it to an entirely different website.

Place the file in the root folder of the domain, the same place your index.htm file is.

 

[Spider]

also /blue/ is a folder. If you did http://widgets.us/blue/index.htm then that would work for http://widgets.us/blue/

 

[bidawinner]

Ok, This better explains the problem

http://inelegant.org/ddp/07007/

What I want to know is if a website has a link (widgets.us/blue/ )to another website (a domain..that you just purchased) and you want to create that same page widgets.us/blue/ BUT .. Front Front page wont let you creat a page with the trailing "/"
. so I can only create widgets.us/blue ..

So how do I get around this ?

 

[Spider]

the folder is blue, the file is just an index. create a folder called blue and make that page called index.htm. This will fix your problem with widgets.us/blue/ not going to a page.

 

[bidawinner]

Originally posted by Spider
the folder is blue, the file is just an index. create a folder called blue and make that page called index.htm. This will fix your problem with widgets.us/blue/ not going to a page.

Got it..

Its just a folder ..doh.. Thanks Spider ! DNf on the way..

 

[Restecpa]

On most servers index.html is being searched for if there is a trailing / in the url. If no index.html is found it searches for the next best guess (index.htm, index.php, index.shtml) unless otherwise specified in the config.. So when you want to create a site using folder structure as url instead of containing names of actual files, just name the main file index.html and youre good to go..