quick question about hosting

miju

right fairly straightforward one really a domain was registered www.jaded-sun.com last year which expired on the 28th of Jan 2005 im switching hosts and have registered the domain again. question is how long does it take for it to point to the new hosting company cos its still pointing at the old one on Blacknight.ie

while i'm at it anyone know the code to get a page to automatically re-direct to an alternative URL?

Gosh

_raptor_ wrote:

while i'm at it anyone know the code to get a page to automatically re-direct to an alternative URL?

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html"&gt;

The META tag redirect code will redirect your visitors to another web page instantly. The content="0; may be changed to the number of seconds you want the browser to wait before redirecting.

miju

nice one gosh your a bleeding star you are

rsynnott

_raptor_ wrote:

right fairly straightforward one really a domain was registered www.jaded-sun.com last year which expired on the 28th of Jan 2005 im switching hosts and have registered the domain again. question is how long does it take for it to point to the new hosting company cos its still pointing at the old one on Blacknight.ie

while i'm at it anyone know the code to get a page to automatically re-direct to an alternative URL?

Ideally, if you're on Apache, instead of doing the META REDIRECT thing, you should make a .htaccess file containing something like:
Redirect permanent / http://www.newsite.com/

The advantage of that is that all pages on the site will redirect to the new one, and that Google will realise you've moved, and update itself accordingly (so that you don't have a pagerank split, etc.)

miju

is that all that has to go into the .htaccess file?

rsynnott

_raptor_ wrote:

is that all that has to go into the .htaccess file?

Yep. Now what that'll do is, if you have say http://oldsite.com/test.html, it'll go to http://newsite.com/test.html. If you just want to redirect specific URLs, then do something like
Redirect permanent /thing.html http://www.newsite.com/thing.html

Eoin

Make sure you set the permissions on the .htaccess file correctly so everyone has read access to the file, but can't view the contents:

Put these lines at the top of the file

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

I think the permissions should be 644?

rsynnott

eoin_s wrote:

Make sure you set the permissions on the .htaccess file correctly so everyone has read access to the file, but can't view the contents:

Put these lines at the top of the file

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

I think the permissions should be 644?

As far as I know, modern versions of Apache NEVER let the client see .htaccess.

Eoin

rsynnott wrote:

As far as I know, modern versions of Apache NEVER let the client see .htaccess.

rsynnott, You are probably dead right - don't know what version we are running in work, but if the file was not readable then the site was unavailable and if it was readable then you could view the contents of the file. I wouldn't be surprised if we are running an older version.

steve-hosting36

To answer your other question, domain re-propagation usually doesnt take more than a few hours these days.

miju

*if you have a problem with your hosting company, tell them, not us*

mneylon

If you are having issues with a domain registered through us please contact accounts@blacknight.ie

Ph3n0m

communication is a wonderful thing, thread closed