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Mar 8, 1999, 12:48 PM
Fudgenut
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Mar 8, 1999, 12:48 PM
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Is there a way for me to make it so that when someone types in www.whatever.com that they goto www.whatever.com/directory
The reason I need this is so I can chmod the direcory to build pages to 777.


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Mar 8, 1999, 3:17 PM
socrates
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Mar 8, 1999, 3:17 PM
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I am not sure if this answers your question (chmodto 777, I don't what this has to do). Anyway these are the two simple methods to redirect your users from your index page to any other page.

1.
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="5; URL=http://www.whatever.com/whatever">
</HEAD>

Note: 5; is time in secs. change it to your needs.

2.
<HEAD>
<body onLoad=window.location.href="http://www.whatever.com/whatever">
</HEAD>
Mar 9, 1999, 9:11 AM
Lisa
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Mar 9, 1999, 9:11 AM
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You can also do this for a whole directory (or directory structure, or just one file, etc etc) if you use the .htaccess method.

Add the following line to your your .htaccess file:

Redirect / http://www.whatever.com/directory/

Do not forget the trailing /

You may have to fuss a bit with ./ and stuff to get it to work, but it worked great for us

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