This page allows you to add or edit redirections to other servers. You can use this feature to give an automatic pointer to documents that have moved. Redirection is a method for the server to tell a client to look elsewhere for a URL it requests. You can use this feature if you have moved something on your server to another server. Or, you can use redirection to seamlessly send a person from your unsecure server to your secure server.
First, you must specify what URL prefix you want the server to redirect.
For instance, let's say you maintained a movie database, but decided to
give it to someone else to maintain. Users looking for the movies used
to load the URL http://yourserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies
.
However, now you've moved the movie information to someone else's server,
http://otherserver.subdomain.dom/
. In that case, you would
enter /info/movies as the prefix to redirect.
Next, you should choose which URL you want to redirect them to. You have two choices: Either you can redirect them to a single URL, or you can send them to a new URL prefix.
In the above example, let's say you decide to redirect them to a single URL.
You use the URL http://otherserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies
for their destination. If a request is made for
http://yourserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies/computers/sneakers.html
, the client would be sent to
http://otherserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies
even though
they requested a particular document within that tree.
If you know the document tree is the same on the other server, though, you
can specify that this URL is only a URL prefix. In that case, if a request
is made for
http://yourserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies/computers/sneakers.html
and your URL destination is the same as above, then the user is sent to
http://otherserver.subdomain.dom/info/movies/computers/sneakers.html
instead, using the URL you entered as a prefix.