--Redirects
See also: CGI Screens to Hide Contact Info, Preventing Directory Browsing, Restricting Access, Server Side Includes, Make a Web Form, Web Authoring, Web Use and Development, NRAO Brand, NRAO Web Publication Policy, NRAO Web Design Standards
A redirect is a way of using the underlying protocol of the web (HTTP) to cause one page to automatically move people to another. There are two ways of doing this:
- Modifying the web server configuration (we only do this where necessary!)
- Using a
<meta...>tag in your HTML markup as shown below.
For most people, the second option will work just fine. Here's how to take a page, say example.html, and make it redirect people to, say, www.example.edu/~someone/newexample.html after 5 seconds:
<html><head>
<title>Not here anymore!</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="5;url=http://www.example.edu/~someone/newexample.html">
</head>
<body> <p>This page has moved! If your browser does not automatically
bring you to the new location within about 5 seconds, please
<a href="http://www.example.edu/~someone/newexample.html">go here</a>
</body></html>
If you are using one of the many templates with Server Side Includes, for example to get the NRAO style pages, then you can just take the <meta...> tag from the example above and put it either directly above or below the <title> tag. This meta tag must be somewhere in the "head" section of the page, not the body.
