Please help, redirecting homepage.

[tiknam88]

Please help!

 

I am trying to creat a redirection for my homepage for example when people type www.myweb.com and then it will jump to www.myweb.com/catalog automaticly.

 

How I can do that??

 

 

Thanks

[digilee]

Put this above the closing title tag in your header:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.myweb.com/catalog" />

[sdrio]

Alternatively, there's no reason not to put the files in the root in the first place. I don't think there are any heavy implications to moving it, all links within OSC seem to be relative.

[germ]

Some people will tell you doing it this way:

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.myweb.com/catalog" />

Get's you "black balled" by some of the major search engines.

 

I really don't know.

[Guest]

Some people will tell you doing it this way:

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.myweb.com/catalog" />

Get's you "black balled" by some of the major search engines.

 

I really don't know.

 

just use

 

<?php  
header("location:http://www.myweb.com/catalog"); 
exit();
?>

[germ]

The same people will tell you they don't like that either...

 

I've heard it's best to use .htaccess, or move the shop to the root.

 

Just depends on who and what you believe I guess....

:lol:

[Guest]

The same people will tell you they don't like that either...

 

I've heard it's best to use .htaccess, or move the shop to the root.

 

Just depends on who and what you believe I guess....

:lol:

 

Unless you are going to re-do the whole cart tho isnt that how OsCommerce works? the main function OsCommerce reloads pages us the php function

[germ]

That is how it works, after you get to the home page.

 

I guess the theory would be the search engines don't like getting redirected immediately.

 

Like I said, I aint no authority on the subject.

:blush:

[germ]

I'd like to see someone post a "generic" .htaccess redirect example we all could learn from.

 

I tried it here:

 

Click Me

 

But I'm .htaccess illiterate 'cuz it did't work, I guess...

:)

[Guest]

I'd like to see someone post a "generic" .htaccess redirect example we all could learn from.

 

I tried it here:

 

Click Me

 

But I'm .htaccess illiterate 'cuz it did't work, I guess...

:)

 

yea same here I dont know much about .htaccess, you are correct about search engines not liking being reidrected straight away I forgot about how you was using it at 1st.

[tiknam88]

how easy to move the page into root? I tried and all link shows broken?? colour and background all gone? what do I need change to get all link back on working?

[DN71]

did you remove the '/catalog/' entries from both your configuration.php files? Should change those to just '/'

[notubes_pete]

you can move the hole catalog folder to the root.