301 redirect using javascript

[Alick300]

Can I use javascript code to redirect(301) a webpage?

[timhatton]

No, Javascript is run at the client (browser) side and a 301 has to be done server side.

However, it's really quite simple to do using PHP or ASP - have a look at http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php which gives sample code for various languages.

[Alick300]

I have a html site,I cant use server side scripting languages.So in your opinion how to redirect html site?

[timhatton]

Are they literally just flat HTML files - not served from a CMS or anything?

Do you know what kind of server you are on?  You can probably find out here http://news.netcraft.com/ (box top left)

If you're on Apache, then see if you can edit your .htaccess file - this should be in the root of your web space.  Note: editing .htaccess can seriously muck up your site if you get it wrong.  It depends what kind of redirect you want to do, but if you're just looking to redirect abc.html to xyz.html then you'd add in a line like this:

redirect 301 /abc.html /xyz.html

If you're on IIS I'd have to bow to someone with better knowledge of IIS...

[donford]

Hi GenSEO..

301 is a server response code and handled by the server on linux / unix systems usually via htaccess if you have access to the server then you would use this method, unless its a IIS server (Windows) in which case its a little different.

You can test your server package if you don't know what server you're on..

PHP for Linux / Unix / Apache put this at the very top of the page

ASP for Windows Servers

`<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
' Permanent redirection
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://``www.mysite.com/new-page.html``/"
Response.End
%>`

That said, the best option if you do not have access to the server is to use a META refresh, some search engines will treat this as 30x redirect, by placing this at the top of the page
HTML Page Redirect

[lcallander]

I did this on my wordpress site.  Here are my instructions:

https://moz.com/community/q/switched-from-wix-to-wordpress-dreaded-hashtag-url