Redirecting URL

Basically there are two ways to do the URL redirect
(1) write commands in the page that will redirect the access to another URL.
(2) write a configuration file (.htaccess) that will redirect a certain URL tree to another one.

The former is the one we see often with a page saying "redirected to the new page in 10 sec.." or so. According to documents I read, this is not recommended for its problem with search engines. method (2) is more search engine friendly. So I took the second method.

I struggled a lot to set redirection of the previous CMCI web pages to the new one. The setting should be not so difficult by editing a configuration file called ".htaccess" but somehow in EMBL web server, .htaccess does not function for redirecting (other functions such as access restrictions does work). Michael Wahlers@IT service helped me a lot on this problem, and he configured another configuration file that is only accessible by administrator.

In any case, here is a list of links related to this issue.

General listings of methods for redirecting URL

URL Redirect

URL Rewriting Guide

Permanent Redirect by editing .htaccess (301)

Apache Module mod_alias

301 Permanent Redirect by Brian V. Bonini