Monday, August 25, 2003
(9:59 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Technical Question
If any hardcore computer people are reading, I have a question for you. I am trying to get the pages from my old web servers, which still linger on in Google search results, to redirect automatically to the appropriate page on this server. The general form I want is that http://kotsko.tripod.com/* and http://home.attbi.com/~akotsko/* will redirect to http://www.adamkotsko.com/*. Ideally, I would be able to clear all files except index.htm (and whatever file pulls off this trick) out of both of those accounts. I have found information about using the file .htaccess, which works only with apache. Chances are, both tripod and attbi use apache, but neither of them allow filenames to start with the dot, at least not in the root directory of my account.
This brings me to the question: Can I do what I envision here without using .htaccess? I know that I could go through and make a dummy file of each and every thing on my web page that redirects to the parallel file on this server, but I'd have to make 90 such files, which doesn't seem like a good use of my time. If anyone can help me with this, please either leave your suggestion in the comments or e-mail me.
