How to redirect properly to a sub folder?

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Well, here i am again with some redirect question.
My host recently upgraded the server and although my site can still be reached by the domain, the folder has some important other folders.
I'm on a reseller account and now i want to move the files of my site to a folder to keep things tidy and to prevent i delete something important by accident.
How would i redirect mydomain.com to a folder called home without getting 404 pages when people find the site by search engine results?
The url would be like this; domain.com/home instead of domain.com.
Any tips and/or advice?
Thanks in advance.

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1. Create index.html

2. Paste the folowing code into index.html:

Code:

<html>

<head>

<title>Title here!</title>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=http://www.domain.com/home.html">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</head>

<p align="center">You Will Be Redirected In 10 Seconds</span></p>

<p align="center">If not click <a href="domain.com/home.html">here</a>.</p>

</body>

</html>

3. Change the domain names to yours and adjust the 10 to however many seconds you want to go buy. Put it on 0 if you want it to transfer immediatly.

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Using a meta refresh will be frowned upon pretty severely by search engines.

You should use a redirect method that sends a 301 (moved permanently) HTTP header. This is the method that has been sanctioned by search engine representatives from Google and the other major engines.

How to do so depends on the technology involved.

A PHP example is:

Code:



<?php 



header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 

header("Location: http://www.newdomain.com/newdirectory/newpage.php"); 

exit(); 



?>

That will direct the request to that specific page.

If you want to do more at one time you should look into using mod_rewrite.

Here is an example rule:

Code:



RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/newdirectory/$1 [R=301,L]

That rule would redirect anything in that directory to the other directory with a 301 HTTP header.

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Wow! You learn something every day...

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