I'm working on a site, so i'd like to place a 'website under construction' page for anyone who tries to view it. The thing is, I want a selected group of people to view the real, actual, undeveloped page when they type the regarding website in their adress bar. The rest would be automatically redirected to the 'under construction' page.(is there a name for this phenomenom?)
Question summarized: Is it possible to auto-redirect people to the 'under contruction' page, but exclude certain ip's from being redirected? I only have some knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, and a little bit of JS.
Thanks.
This was a solution for me, which i was satisfied with. It could be that it doesn't meet the requirements of people with the same problem.
I created a .htaccess file in my root directory.
Here I denied all ip's but the one's who should have access to it.
I then created a (temporary) custom 403(forbidden) ErrorDocument which is a
'Website under construction' page, as long as the website isn't launched.
I'll set that back to the default page when the site's ready.
My .htaccess file is now as follows:
ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.php
Order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 123.123.123.123
Because it doesn't answer the specific question, i didn't mark it as best answer.
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I wondered if someone could answer this question.
When putting in place 301 redirects for an old website to a new website. Would the metadata from the old website show on Google. If so, what is the best way to resole this?
How will our meta description, google preview and such like be impacted by the redirect? Meaning, will the current ones still show up once the redirect is in place, or will it be the meta description and google preview of the url it is being pointed to?
I guess that question applies to pretty much all of the current site settings/errors. Will we still be ranked on these and therefore is it in our interest to fix any errors with on the old site or should all the focus be on the destination domain, i.e. will any errors or settings on the referring domain no longer matter?
I have a domain with GoDaddy called "livingmiracles.org". For years I had this domain forwarding to my livingmiraclescenter.org Joomla website. Recently, I discovered that the way the livingmiracles.org domain now forwards to our livingmiraclescenter.org site has changed and has left me with broken links on almost all of the over 60 websites I manage.
This is what used to happen:
Any URL of the livingmiraclescenter.org website would be able to be displayed with the livingmiracles.org domain instead. For example, the following URLs were interchangeable:
livingmiraclescenter.org/david-hoffmeister.html and
livingmiracles.org/david-hoffmeister.html
livingmiraclescenter.org/contact.html and
livingmiracles.org/contact.html
livingmiraclescenter.org/spiri-tv.html and
livingmiracles.org/spiri-tv.html
Also, variations of the above without ".html" would work.
Now, none of this works anymore. For the "livingmiracles.org/" links above, now, either the livingmiraclescenter.org home page pulls up or I get a GoDaddy error page.
I called GoDaddy and they confirmed a change in the way they handle domain forwarding now.
Can anyone suggest a simple/smart way—perhaps a RewriteRule or something like that—that I can set up somewhere (where?) to handle those specific page redirects? Basically, I want all my livingmiraclescenter.org links to be interchangeable with livingmiracles.org links like I wrote above in those examples.
Thank you so much!
Jutta
I have created a Github Pages site and put it on repository abc of github account with username xyz.
So, my site is now live on xyz.github.io/abc
I created a cname file with my custom domain, and configured my DNS with the settings said on Github pages.
Now, my site is also live on mycustomdomain.com
Now, I don't want my site to be live on xyz.github.io/abc . I want it to redirect to mycustomdomain.com or not accessible.
Is there any way to do that?
I know that I can create User Pages site (with username.github.io) which will automatically redirect to custom domain, but I want to create project site.
Any suggestions?
A CNAME solution:
Sure. Github has a nice functionality for it.
When you create CNAME folder inside of your repo, you will be redirected:
https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-cname-file-to-your-repository/
Check out my Github Pages website: https://github.com/ondrek/ondrek.github.io
( you can browse ondrek.com, but it's impossible to browse ondrek.github.io )
A JS solution:
If you want to redirect a custom page — the only possible solution will be javascript redirection.
if (window.location.href==="https://xyz.github.io") {
window.location.href = "https://mycustomdomain.com";
}
but it will not solve your problem with Google. You can solve this with correct using Google Webmaster Tools and tell to Google about the duplicate (for SEO purposes).
I had a GitHub Pages website (https://kamarada.github.io/), I moved it to GitLab (https://kamarada.gitlab.io/) and besides that I set up a custom domain on GitLab (https://linuxkamarada.com/). Now the question: how to make a 301 redirect from the GitHub Pages to the custom domain? Is that possible?
Well, as Ciro Santilli answered on this other question, there is no "beautiful non-plugin solution". Indeed, the solution I found is not beautiful, it is more kind of a workaround, but it works.
Inspired by the Samuel Ondrek answer on this same question (thanks a lot!), I set up CNAME redirection.
Go to your GitHub Pages repo, click Settings and below GitHub Pages, under Custom domain, enter your custom domain and click Save.
Now open another tab on your browser, open DevTools (F12), select the Network tab. Try to access your GitHub Pages website and see that a 301 redirect happens.
GitHub is going to complain that your domain is not configured properly:
Well, that does not really matter. What matters is that you have the 301 redirect required by the Google Search Console's Change of Address Tool and your website won't lose its Google ranking.
This might be a bit old but I'd still like to give an alternative answer to this. You can simply use meta refresh on your index.html
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://example.com/" />
Then use a regular link (an a message also) on the page in case refresh stops. Though it is not recommended for SEO since google might index the blank page. But it would most likely work work.
You could use JavaScript to inspect the domain of the current page and redirect if necessary. If you go this route, the question and answer are already on SO:
Redirection based on URL - JavaScript
A domainname that I do not own, is redirecting to my domain. I don´t know who owns it and why it is redirecting to my domain.
This domain however is showing up in Googles search results. When doing a whois it also returns this message:
"Domain:http://[baddomain].com webserver returns 307 Temporary Redirect"
Since I do not own this domain I cannot set a 301 redirect, or disable it. When clicking the baddomain in Google it shows the content of my website but the baddomain.com stays visible in the URL bar.
My question is: How can I stop Google from indexing and showing this bad domain in the search results and only show my website instead?
Thanks.
Some thoughts:
You cannot directly stop Google from indexing other sites, but what you could do is add the cannonical tag to your pages so Google can see that the original content is located on your domain and not "bad domain".
For example check out : https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en
Other actions can be taken SEO wise if the 'baddomain' is outscoring you in the search rankings, because then it sounds like your site could use some optimizing.
The better your site and domain rank in the SERPs, the less likely it is that people will see the scraped content and 'baddomain'.
You could however also look at the referrer for the request and if it is 'bad domain' you should be able to do a redirect to your own domain, change content etc, because the code is being run from your own server.
But that might be more trouble than it's worth as you'd need to investigate how the 'baddomain' is doing things and code accordingly. (properly iframe or similar from what you describe, but that can still be circumvented using scripts).
Depending on what country you and 'baddomain' are located in, there are also legal actions. So called DMCA complaints. This however can also be quite a task, and well - it's often not worth it because a new domain will just pop up.
I have a page on my DotNetNuke site and I would like to set up a redirect and was wondering the best way to do it. Here is the problem:
I have a page on the site: mydomain.com/dashbaord.aspx. I would like users to be able to type mydomain.com/dashboard OR mydomain.com/Dashboard and it will redirect them to the /dashboard.aspx page.
I have IIS6, so I set up wildcard mapping, and it seemed to work for /dashboard, but not /Dashboard. Also, I am looking for it to literally redirect you so that /dashbaord.aspx shows up in the address bar. In addition, the wildcard mapping broke some other links on the site, so I was looking for an alternative method to accomplish this. Is there a way that I can set this up through IIS? Or any other way?
Thanks in advance for the help.
In IIS, create a virtual directory by right clicking on Sites, and then call it Dashboard. Then set that to redirect to a specific URL, in your case, http://mydomain.com/dashboard.aspx.