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 , do the following:
- On the control panel home page, click Web
Options. Select the domain if you have
more than one.
- 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.
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.
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:
- On the control panel home page, click Web
Options. Select the domain if you have
more than one.
- 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).
- 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).
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
| |
| 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
| |
| 503 |
Service Unavailable
| |
| 504 |
Gateway Timeout
| |
| 505 |
HTTP Version Not Supported
| |
To configure Error Pages, do the
following:
- On the control panel home page, click Web
Options. Select the domain if you have
more than one.
- 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).
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 your home page.
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:
- On the control panel home page, click Web
Options. Select the domain if you have
more than one.
- 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:
- On the control panel home page, click Web
Options. Select the domain if you have
more than one.
- 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.
