Redirect a temporary IP

[SCW]

I was performing some development work on a client's site recently under a temporary location on the host's server, for example:

http://11.22.33.444/~accountname/folder/page.html

Google managed to index a couple of pages using this url

I have updated DNS to the correct domain and the site is live, but I am a bit confused in regards to the correct way to create a 301 Redirect for this example or at least a way point it to our 404 page.

I am hoping someone more proficient with htaccess can help me out a bit...

Thanks!

[Aran_Smithson]

hi Could you elaborate and explain what is is your want to achieve with the redirect?

[SCW]

Sure! I would like to redirect the temporary url Google indexed (with the server IP in it above) to the correct page name on the now live domain.

For example: client-site.com/new-page-name.html

I am quite familiar with 301's which direct to a new page location/name - however, the IP address and the fact that it's not actually a domain is tripping me up a bit.

Thanks!

[Aran_Smithson]

Hi,

On the page (on the test server),  you could use the following code (assuming your using PHP).

**header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: client-site.com/new-page-name.html**");**

?>

Hope that helps**

[SCW]

It was not a "test" server; rather, a temporary url (prior to updating DNS) to the actual client account on the host server.  All development pages were deleted, which is why I was looking for a method to accomplish this via htaccess, but it's not looking promising...

UPDATE

I discovered I only needed to remove the numerical portion of the IP address and then form like a normal 301 Redirect.

Example:

Redirect 301 /~accountname/folder/page.html /folder/page/html

As usual, I was over-complicating things

Hope this helps someone. And, thanks for your suggestions Aran.

[Aran_Smithson]

Ah, simple, nice work!