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karabaja3 · #81 04-29-2012, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrantHorizons

I don't have that option either. Instead, I did the following:

I created a subdir called "redirects" and created redirect pages in there for each forum.

e.g.

Forum 1 advertisers url in the vBSponsors form field is to: /redirects/forum1.htm and THAT file has a redirect in the meta tag like so:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.AdvertisersURL.com/">

The whole forum1.htm file looks like this if you're not sure what you're doing:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.AdvertisersURL.com/">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
<title>redirect</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

That works fine - the negative is that the user sees an error message for a few seconds, then it redirects ok to the advertisers site and hopefully they forget about the error message, because it worked

Make a file for every forum. Just hope you don't have 80 forums like me!

Thank you so much for the advice.

I would only add that it might be better to use php for redirection:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



   header( 'Location: http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/' ) ;



?>

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