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Answer 1

+4 A:

You cannot alter the HTTP status code with HTML.

But if you’re using an Apache webserver, you could use mod_rewrite or mod_alias to redirect such requests to the new address:

# mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old\.html$ /new.html [L,R=301]

# mod_alias
RedirectMatch 301 ^/old\.html$ /new.html

Edit As you now clarified that you’re using IIS 7, take a look at its <httpRedirect> element for HTTP redirects.

Gumbo 2009-06-01 10:59:01

My web hosting is using Microsoft-IIS/7.0, is there any similar way or redirect?

2009-06-01 11:26:02

Take a look at this: http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/httpRedirect

Gumbo 2009-06-01 11:32:01

Answer 2

+2 A:

No, it isn't possible. HTML is not processed by the server, so it cannot set HTTP headers.

You should look at Apache configuration instead (e.g. with .htaccess).

At its simplist you could do:

  Redirect 301 old.html http://example.com/new/
  Redirect 301 other-old.html http://example.com/newer/

David Dorward 2009-06-01 11:01:02

You cannot set HTTP header fields, that’s right. But the `http-equiv` in `meta` elements are supposed to be HTTP equivalent. So those informations are supposed to be treated as HTTP header fields.

Gumbo 2009-06-01 11:30:41

No, http-equiv was supposed to be read and parsed by HTTP server, not by clients. HTTP servers don't do that, and clients have quite poor support for this. It's a half-dead, half-broken feature which is almost completely removed in HTML5.

porneL 2009-06-01 11:31:01

@proneL: Ah yes, you’re right.

Gumbo 2009-06-01 11:40:42

Answer 3

+1 A:

I guess you could use JavaScript and/or meta-refresh (as suggested by Gumbo) to redirect the users from your old pages to the new one. Something like:

<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://YourServer/NewFile.html" />

  <script type="text/javascript">
    location.replace('http://YourServer/NewFile.html');
  </script> 
</head>
<body>
  This page has moved. <a href="http://YourServer/NewFile.html"&gt;Click here for the new location</a>
</body>
</html>

mrMoo 2009-06-01 11:09:44

The only reason for having the JS redirect seems to be for people who disable meta refresh, which I don't suppose many do. I used to have this three-level redirect on a site I maintain, but have since dropped the JS redirect. Somebody who hates meta refresh enough to disable it will likely hate JS doing the same.

Stewart 2009-07-02 08:19:42

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