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[Richard]

I need to redirect all my pages to my Home_page (reason: because they are supposed to be viewed within iframes) However, they need to be S/E friendly AND whatever tecknique I use to 'redirect' needs to be turned off from home_page calls to these inner pages. I have experimented with Javascript document.referrer scripts, but had problems with loops and i'm now sceptical about how S/Es view this sort of redirect anyway. From some looking about I think maybe .htaccess could provide the answer and also reduce a lot of page coding. using "Redirect or RewriteRule". I'm a bit confused which way to go. Can some one please help me here?

[csjavi]

I can't think of a practical way to do this in .htaccess. Using referrer info is a possibility but that would probably lead to the same problems as with your javascript. I can set my browser not to send referrer info in two seconds. Without referrer info you'd get an interesting recursion. That might lead to a spectacular browser crash.

You really should consider using server side include instead of frames.

[chrishirst]

while I would prefer to re-write out the frames and use SSI or scripting the html code on to the page, Using Self Referencing Framsets is a good option.
I've just added this to an existing framed site and the conversion rate is now starting upwards. :thumbsup:

One thing to be aware of is if you have a link in the page with the SRF that calls another page with SRF make sure you add target="_parent" to the link, otherwise you will create another frameset inside the frameset.


Chris.

[Scottie]

Welcome to the forum, Richard!

[Richard]

Thanks for the above comments, especially the info on self referencing framesets.

I have now implemented this technique that appears to work well

Richard

Edited by Richard, 14 October 2003 - 08:26 AM.