[TriLUG] HTML - breaking redirects gracefully

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

I think that simply pointing your 404 page (URL not found) to your Menu
site should do the trick. If someone clicks on a broken link then they
will be directed to your menu.

Feeling Lucking: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/custom404.shtml

Of course folks just sucking content from your site (like a jpeg or gif)
will just get blanks.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Rulison <13miketele at bellsouth.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 9:22 pm
Subject: [TriLUG] HTML - breaking redirects gracefully
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>,
TriPUG <tripug at lists.tripug.org>

> If off topic (OT) please discard.
> 
> But:
>    I am renovating a web site that consists of
>    1    directories and their contents all concerned with 
> "Affiliates"                all of these belong in a directory 
> called "affiliates"
>    2    files that deal with "Affiliates"
>                mostly these redirect the browser to some external 
> web site
>    3    files that are NOT "affiliates.
>                these should have a hierarchy but do not; they are 
> 'flat'.
> There are scores of each kind of file (1, 2, 3)
> 
> I have a new site in development with two major categories (ignoring
> css, assets, etc.)
>    affiliates - directories and their pages.
>    nonaffiliate pages (with an enclosing set of directories).
> 
> Problem: I want to get rid of all of group 2, above. But if I do, 
> linksprinted on paper and in www sites across the country will 
> break (404).
> Folks will be unhappy.
> 
> Is there a way to create a 'universal' and graceful redirect (from 
> linksthat disappear if I delete group 2), to a place where users 
> will get
> access to all the affiliate data in one comprehensive menu?  The 
> menu is
> done and is linked to from the new site. But there are still scores of
> group 2 files glopping up the site That I want to delete..
> 
> I welcome your thoughts. And Thanks.
> 
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