This document introduces you to the tools that enhance
navigation between the pages of your site. These are:
- Redirect URL to redirect
visitors from one page to another;
- Directory Indexes to
specify what files will be treated as index pages;
- Error Pages to configure
error pages that are shown when the requested pages fail to
open;
- htProtect to protect web pages
with passwords;
- Server Side Imagemap to add
links to parts of your images;
- MIME Types to specify the MIME type
for a particular file extension.
Redirect URL
Use this feature to redirect your visitors from one web
page to another or even to a different website.
To create a redirect in a Unix-based account, do the
following:
- Select Quick Access in the Account menu.
- Click the Web Options icon.
- Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
- On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the
Redirect option and click the Add icon next
to it.
- Agree with the charges.
- On the page that appears, create the redirect rule.
Unix-based accounts
Entering http://www.examples.com/products
into the Redirect from field and
http://www.examples.com?param1=yes
in the to field, will take all the
http://www.examples.com/products
visitors to the http://www.examples.com?param1=yes
page.
If you leave the Redirect from field empty, visitors
will be redirected from any location in the site. In the
to field, you can enter URLs with parameters, as
illustrated in the screenshot above.
Leave Redirect status as is unless you want to
change the default:
- Permanent
returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that
the resource has moved permanently.
- Temporary
returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the
default and indicates to the client that the resource has
moved temporarily.
- See other
returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the
resource has been replaced.
- Gone
will cause a visitor's browser display "The requested
resource is no longer available on this server and there is
no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this
resource." message when trying to go to the 'to'
URL.
Windows-based accounts
In Windows plans, redirect works in a slightly different
manner:
- The exact URL entered above
redirects requests for any files in the indicated directory to
one file. For example, to redirect all requests for
products.html file to the following URL: 'www.example.net',
enter www.example.net/products.html in the To
field and select this option.
You can redirect requests to URLs with parameters, for
example www.examples.net/?param1=yes
*Note: you can redirect requests for files and directories
both to your own site and to any other external URL.
- A directory below this one
redirects a parent directory to a child directory.
- For example, to redirect your 'examples.net/products'
directory to a subdirectory named 'news', enter
'excample.net/products/news' in the 'to' text box
and select this option. Without this option, the Web server
will continually map the parent to itself.
- A permanent redirection for this resource
sends the following message to the client: '301 Permanent
Redirect'. Redirects are considered temporary, and the client browser
receives the following message: '302 Temporary Redirect'. Some browsers can
use the '301 Permanent Redirect' message as the signal to permanently change
a URL, such as a bookmark.
Directory Indexes
This tool allows you to set your own index pages instead of
those specified in the default settings. In other words, you
can tell your visitors' browsers which page to load as they
hit your domain. Usually, it's
/index.html by default, but you can set any other
custom welcome page.
Example: If a visitor goes to your site
http://www.example.com, the first page to open will be
http://www.example.com/index.html. However, if you set
/welcome.html as the directory index, the page to open
will be http://www.example.com/welcome.html.
Warning: your custom index pages won't add to the defaults; they will
replace them. Therefore, make sure to enter the full list of indexes you would
like to have in your configuration.
To set your custom directory indexes, do the following:
- Select Quick Access in the Account menu.
- Click the Web Options icon on the page that shows.
- Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
- On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the
Directory Indexes option and turn it on.
- Agree with the charges.
- In the box that appears, enter the names for files that will be treated as
indexes. Put file names in the descending order of priority and separate
them with spaces (e.g. index.html cgi.bin about.html).
- Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based
plan.
At the top of the Web Service page, click the
Apply link for the Server configuration to change.
The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.
- To edit the list you have made, click the Edit
icon next to the Directory Indexes option: with
spaces (e.g. index.html cgi.bin about.html).
If you are using a Unix-based plan, click the Apply
link at the top of the Web Service page.
Error Pages
Use this utility to define what will be done if a requested
page on your site is missing or fails to open for any other
reason. In order to specify your own ErrorDocuments, you
need to be slightly familiar with the server returned error
codes:
Successful Client Requests |
200 |
OK |
201 |
Created |
202 |
Accepted |
203 |
Non-Authorative Information |
204 |
No Content |
205 |
Reset Content |
206 |
Partial Content |
Client Request Redirected |
300 |
Multiple Choices |
301 |
Moved Permanently |
302 |
Moved Temporarily |
303 |
See Other |
304 |
Not Modified |
305 |
Use Proxy |
Client Request Errors |
400 |
Bad Request |
401 |
Authorization Required |
402 |
Payment Required (not used yet) |
403 |
Forbidden |
404 |
Not Found |
405 |
Method Not Allowed |
406 |
Not Acceptable (encoding) |
407 |
Proxy Authentication Required
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408 |
Request Timed Out |
409 |
Conflicting Request |
410 |
Gone |
411 |
Content Length Required |
412 |
Precondition Failed |
413 |
Request Entity Too Long |
414 |
Request URI Too Long |
415 |
Unsupported Media Type |
Server Errors |
500 |
Internal Server Error |
501 |
Not Implemented |
502 |
Bad Gateway
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503 |
Service Unavailable
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504 |
Gateway Timeout
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505 |
HTTP Version Not Supported
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To configure Error Pages, do the following:
- Select Quick Access in the
Account menu.
- Click the Web Options icon on the page that
shows.
- Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
- On the Web Service page,
scroll down to find the
Error option and click the Add icon on its
right.
- In the form that appears, enter the error document
settings:
- Message or URL: Enter the message the visitor
will get or the URL of the page that the visitor will be
taken to if the requested page is not found.
- Type: Specify if the text in the previous field
must be treated as a URL (Redirect) or as a text
message (Message).
Windows users will get a slightly different form:
htProtect
htProtect utility allows you to password-protect any
directory on your site so only authorized visitors can open
its content with their browsers.
To start htProtect, click the WebProtect icon
on the Quick Access page in the Account
menu.
Warning: Don't use this feature if you have Frontpage
Extensions installed. You would need to use Frontpage itself
to perform this function.
Server Side Imagemap
This feature allows your server to regard files with a
specific extension as map files. In other words, the server
checks the file with the specified extension to define the
links of an image (unlike a client-side image map, which
uses the info inserted into the HTML code) and reports back
to the browser where to go.
To add an imagemap file extension, do the following:
- Select Quick Access in the
Account menu.
- Click the Web Options icon on the page that
shows.
- Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
- On the Web Service page,
scroll down to find the
Server Side Imagemap option and click the
Add icon on its right.
- Agree with the charges.
- Enter the file extension beginning with a dot:
MIME Types
This utililty allows you to define file formats that are
not defined in web browsers. This enables the browser to
display or output files that are not in HTML format, just
like it displays simple text files, .gif graphics files and
PostScript files.
To add a definition for your own file format, do the
following:
- Select Quick Access in the
Account menu.
- Click the Web Options icon on the page that
shows.
- Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.
- On the Web Service page,
scroll down to find the
MIME Type option and click the Add icon on
its right.
- Agree with the charges.
- On the page that appears, enter the extension for this
file type:
Begin file extension with a dot. The MIME type must comply
with MIME type specifications, e.g.: text/rtf or
video/mpeg.
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