Redirect entire website

[iGuest 3]

hey there,
Is it possible to redirect an entire website (all pages) to another host rather than just on one page? Eg, not just http://freehost.com/ to redirect to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, but all pages from http://freehost.com/ (main.php, contacts.php, etc) to another host.

So that if someone visits any of the pages from my old site, they will be redirected to the main page of my new hosted site..
know wot i mean..?
Thnx.

[iGuest 3]

you mean you want to link your new website http://new.com/ to http://www.old.com/?or'>http://www.old.com/?or do you mean that all the pages of http://www.old.com/ will also apear on http://new.com/ beside the new pages?

[iGuest 3]

yeh sumthing like that, i want all the pages from http://www.old.com/ to automaticaly redirect to the main page of the http://new.com/ .. is that possible?

[iGuest 3]

Delete/move the old site and edit/create an .htaccess file, there add the directive [if the host is using Apache]:

redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/

[iGuest 3]

ohhh Cheers mate!! worked perfectly!!

[iGuest 3]

Since this is in the php scripting section, thouht i might add the php script for that

<?phpheader("Location: yoursite.com");?>

copy and paste that into a into notepad and then save it as index.php and upload it.
obviously where is says "yoursite.com' you put where you want it to forward to.

[iGuest 3]

He wants to redirect the access to _any_ file on the old site, with that method he would have to put that code on every page...

[iGuest 3]

you can also use the cpanel x redirect thing

[iGuest 3]

oh, like this . Thanks !

[iGuest 3]

Delete/move the old site and edit/create an .htaccess file, there add the directive [if the host is using Apache]:
redirect 301 /http://www.newsite.com/

How do you create a .htaccess file? Type it up in notepad and change the extension? And where do you put the file?

[iGuest 3]

Yep, you can use notepad, save it as ".htaccess" including the quotes in the file name. You can put a .htaccess file in any folder [usually in public_html], the directives will affect to that folder and its sub-folders. If you are using FNH, you should have a .htaccess file already, edit that one.

[iGuest 3]

If you get the list of files there are on the other server ... then just put in all files this:<?include "thefile"?>or something like that