[plug] redirecting url's

Sun Feb 23 15:18:04 WST 2003

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 20:52, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302222030470.1259-100000 at soulasylum.penguincare.com.au>
> on Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:38:43PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > You can put a redirect on a webpage on your linux box to redirect to a
> > page at your ISP, which is as simple as adding the following within the
> > <HEAD> ... </HEAD> clause of your homepage:
> > 
> > <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.isp.net.au/~darren/">
> 
> Argh! Nooooooooooo! There is no such HTTP header as "Refresh". This sort
> of trick causes problems with back buttons, search engines, etc. People
> should use 'redirects' instead (response code 302 and a 'Location'
> header) -- not a web page with a 0-delay "refresh". With Apache,
> you can use the Redirect or RewriteRule directives, for example.
> 
> > If you wanted to have the dynamic DNS entry point directly at the ISP's
> > webpage, then you will need your ISP's cooperation with that, since they
> > will need to add the appropriate details to their webserver config
> 
> Also, be aware that it can take time for DNS changes to propagate,
> depending on your setup and how recently your address was cached.
> 
> And if you want to do a redirect from a webserver on your Linux box to
> your ISP's web server, your Linux box (or something else at its address)
> will of course have to be contactable and operational.
> 
> You could consider an option to have your DNS name always point to your
> ISP and have requests proxied from there to your Linux box. This has an
> obvious performance penalty, of course, but in the case of your Linux
> box becoming uncontactable, you wouldn't have to reconfigure your DNS.

how would i achieve your last suggestion ,using dyndns.org to webforward i only have
 the option to forward to an ip address ,at the isp the page is it  wn.com.au/xxx which i gather
dosnt have its own ip. i have been reading and searching but i cant
grasp the concept .thanks for the help  

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