redirecting/subdomain

[ahimsa]

Hi everyone,
I have a situation new to me :)
I have an add-on domain (www.addon.net) - it is a personal site that I don't encourage general traffic to visit. I need to set up a promotional site for a short period of time & so do not want to purchase a new name. Question: is it possible to use my addon.net domain name & "temporarily" redirect traffic that enters www.addon.net to a subdomain of that site, ie the 'promotional' pages? The idea being that visitors to www.addon.net will only see the subdomain pages?

In the back of my head I'm hearing "301 redirect"!! If this is the way to go, could someone point me to a simple tut. or explanation on how to set this up....

I hope this makes enough sense to someone who can then help :)

Many thanks in advance for any advice,
david

[navaldesign]

Re: redirecting/subdomain

A 301 is a permanent redirect.
In your case, it would be better if you used the normal meta redirect through the index page itself.

Open the index page in BV, go in Page Properties, Misc, Redirect, Internal Webpage and type the full URL of the subdomain index page.

[ahimsa]

Re: redirecting/subdomain

....ok that's great! Thanks for that..........1 small thing: I tried it & it's fine EXCEPT that Firefox can block the redirect! On mine, for example, it comes up "Firefox prevented this page from being automatically redirected"!!!! Any clever little trick to get around this? As, if not, then it kinda defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to achieve, you know? :)

[navaldesign]

Re: redirecting/subdomain

The only other easy solution is to use a PHP index page that will redirect to the subdomain.

Opn Notepad and create a file with the following content;

<?php
header("Location: subdomainfolder/index.php");
?>

Upload it in the main site folder (public_html) and DELETE the index.html file from the server (you can always republish it after the temporary redirect period)

[ahimsa]

Re: redirecting/subdomain

....Thanks a lot for your tips........really helpful as ausual :)
After thinking it all through, for what I want & only for a relatively short time I could just as easily replace the index with a simple page with the message "If your browser does not automatically redirect, click here" and have a link to the subdomain index page? Then, as you say, I just republish the original when all is done with!

(Sometimes the simplest ways are the most effective, yes?)

[navaldesign]

Re: redirecting/subdomain

Sure!