A Woodwork Notebook

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:21:54 GMT, igor <[email protected]> wrote:


>In case you are unaware of this, this problem can also be fixed at your
>end. One way is to upload an index.html that is the same as your index.htm
>page. Another is to set up a redirect via the website control panel (if
>you have that access). You could also create a blank index.html page and
>in the html code have a redirect to the index.htm page:
>
><META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0;url=www.amgron.clara.net/index.htm">
>
>(While I am far from an expert on this, on my hosted system if there is an
>index.htm page and an index.html page, the index.html page trumps the
>former if someone just comes to my site via www.mysite.com.)
>
>Also, in my website stats I sometimes see what looks to be errors when
>someone is looking for my index.html page when in fact they submitted a bad
>url -- e.g.," index.html<b>" of the like.
>
>HTH. -- Igor


BTW, after I posted my comments I went to the link at the end of your post.

First, I see that you do know about refresh/redirect. On your redirect
page you have a typo:
"The page you requested has moved to
http://www.amgron.clara.net/index.h tm"

Note the space between the h and the tm.

Also, if you expect people to copy that link you might want to not have an
auto-redirect but rather a "click here" -- otherwise there is no time to
read and copy that link.

Anyway, IMO you are not taking the right/standard approach. As I noted
above, the typical default when no webpage is indicated for a domain is to
go to index.html -- if there is one, and if not one is directed to
index.htm. So, when I clicked on _your_ link in your signature of your
post, I was by default taken to www.amgron.clara.net/index.html where I
see a page that tells me that I should update my link to
www.amgron.clara.net/index.htm. It is not that I went explicitly to the
.html page -- rather, by default that is where I went, notwithstanding what
you put in your post that the default is to index.htm. -- Igor

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:32:28 -0000, "POP_Server=pop.clara.net"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Although my site has been up for several years, I have recently acquired a
>'SurfStats' analyser. I notice that the majority of failed requests are
>listed under '/amgron/index.html'
>
>I think this must be because some agencies - Woodworking Forums - peoples
>home pages offering links - and so on are using old URLs.
>
>The index page posted on Clara Net's system terminates with htm. Clara Net
>automatically looks for index.htm so the URL posted at the foot of the page
>is the simplest and best to use.
>
>I'm posting this in the hope that rec.woodwork readers who offer this link
>might wish to find time to make this change. Keeping tabs on website links
>must be a complex and tedious task, but it would be a pity if people were to
>be unnecessarily frustrated.
>
>Jeff G, also doing his best to trace a few other link errors.

In case you are unaware of this, this problem can also be fixed at your
end. One way is to upload an index.html that is the same as your index.htm
page. Another is to set up a redirect via the website control panel (if
you have that access). You could also create a blank index.html page and
in the html code have a redirect to the index.htm page:

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0;url=www.amgron.clara.net/index.htm">

(While I am far from an expert on this, on my hosted system if there is an
index.htm page and an index.html page, the index.html page trumps the
former if someone just comes to my site via www.mysite.com.)

Also, in my website stats I sometimes see what looks to be errors when
someone is looking for my index.html page when in fact they submitted a bad
url -- e.g.," index.html<b>" of the like.

HTH. -- Igor

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:32:28 -0000, "POP_Server=pop.clara.net"
<[email protected]> calmly ranted:

>Although my site has been up for several years, I have recently acquired a
>'SurfStats' analyser. I notice that the majority of failed requests are
>listed under '/amgron/index.html'
>
>I think this must be because some agencies - Woodworking Forums - peoples
>home pages offering links - and so on are using old URLs.
>
>The index page posted on Clara Net's system terminates with htm. Clara Net
>automatically looks for index.htm so the URL posted at the foot of the page
>is the simplest and best to use.
>
>I'm posting this in the hope that rec.woodwork readers who offer this link
>might wish to find time to make this change. Keeping tabs on website links
>must be a complex and tedious task, but it would be a pity if people were to
>be unnecessarily frustrated.
>
>Jeff G, also doing his best to trace a few other link errors.

Jeff, your default link sends us to a referral page which is showing a
typo "index.h tm". Why don't you just put the full URL
http://www.amgron.clara.net/index.htm as the link in your sig file
which would automatically preclude any further problems with future
linking from your posts? Also, adding a dupe of index.htm named
"index.html" to the server will help the old bad links.


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