index.shtml

[bramsey]

I rebuilt a website for a customer and moved it over to my HN account. The person that designed the previous site for whatever reason developed it all with .shtml files. Google and other search engines still have all the old shtml files referenced. I figured I could just put files out there with the old names that use java script to redirect to the new asp pages. For some reason even though the .shtml files are out there the server is still responding with a 404 return.

I got around most of this by using custom error docs and having the 404 document redirect to the home page however it won't work for index.shtml.

Not sure how to get around this. His site comes up number one on Google but it links to index.shtml and I can't get that to redirect to the real home page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[MikeMann]

Not sure what your server has, but I know that you could add this to a .htaccess file through Apache:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule (.*).shtml$ /$1.asp

[bramsey]

I'll look into that. I am on a windows based server I believe. Not sure if it is running IIS or Apache. Thanks for help.