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Redirecting Requests - HoloRedirect

If you should need to move a page, you can use this feature to automatically redirect users who access the old URL of your page to the new URL. This feature can also be used to track hits to an anchor.

When most browsers receive a redirection they will transparently show the user the page at the new location.

How It Works

Let's say for example that someone requests the default URL for your site:

"http://www.sitename.holowww.com"
(or "http://www.yourdomain.com", if you have a custom domain name).

HoloWWW will search in the "http" directory for one of the following files:

• "Welcome.html"
• "welcome.html"
• "index.html"
• "welcome.htm"
• "welcome.htm"
• "index.htm"
• "Welcome.shtml"
• "Welcome.ssi"
• ...and finally, "Welcome.rdr"

When the server finds "Welcome.rdr", it will redirect the visitor to the URL which is specified in the "Welcome.rdr" file.

Note: If there are no documents in the "http" directory with any of the above names, the server will display an index of the directory instead.

Example ".rdr" File

Suppose that you have decided to organize all of your pages in a sub-directory called "project". Visitors must thus access your pages as "http://www.sitename.holowww.com/project".

Unfortunately, however, if a visitor goes to your default site URL, he/she will not see your "Welcome.html" page, since it is in the "project" directory.

To remedy this, you would create a file called "Welcome.rdr" and put it in the "http". The file would need to contain only this one line:

http://www.sitename.holowww.com/project/Welcome.html

Redirecting A Site's Default Page

There is also a form interface for changing the default page for a HoloWWW site to redirect users to a different location. You can access this feature under "Set Basic Welcome Page" in the web Account Administration area.

Tracking Hits To An Anchor

If you would like to track the number of hits to a specific anchor, you could do so by changing the code from:

<A HREF="http://www.holonet.net">HoloNet</A>

<A HREF="http://www.yoursite.holowww.com/
yourtag.holoredirect?http://www.holonet.net">HoloNet</A>

How It Works

When someone selects the URL, HoloWWW is contacted, records a hit for "yourtag.holoredirect", tells the browser that the page has temporarily moved, and then sends the user to the URL mentioned after the question mark.