Code for a 301 redirect from a plain .html page?

[oliflorence]

hi,
I have done 301 redirects from ASP pages before but never from a good old plain .html file.
i am wondering what I need to add to the page to redirect to a new location. I read on the net than I can do it from IIS, unfortunatly I am on a shared server so this is out, i also read i can upload a htaccess file but if so what is the format so i can redirect several individual pages.
many thanks

[beu]

Depends on a few things, see:
http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/the-...s-301-302-307/

[Webmaster T]

Ummm.. good luck in IIS I have to add code to the page to get a clean 404 or 301. M$ seem to think the protocols are open to interpretation. If it's an .htm page and you don't have access to the asp parsing engine then there is little you can do. If you had access to the parser you could configure the server to parse .htm as .asp and add the code at the page level. Otherwise with newer IIS you basically send bad header responses to SE's. For instance if you set up a default 404 it will always return 200 code which is exactly opposite of the intent of the page.

[AussieWebmaster]

Yeah IIS has always been a problem - I would never host with Windows without full access

[rapidvectorseo]

Originally Posted by beu

Depends on a few things, see:
http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/the-...s-301-302-307/

This is great article with good info.
I've bookmarked the page.