I am helping a small store with their site. They are using VSD and I am trying to figure out a solution to this problem.

In their old site they had a page named: Arts and Paintings
In the new site we are renaming the page: arts

But we would like to have a redirect page with the old name and then a link/redirect on it to the new page. VSD just keeps telling us that it has corrected the page name due to illegal characters (think that was the terminology) and then it changes the PageID to 'artsandpaintings'

This won't help us because on the internet there are lots of links to the webpage "Arts and Paintings" so we need the new re-direct page to be the same as the old.

Anyway to do this?

You can delete the old one and re-do it

What do you mean 'delete the old one and redo it'?

They do not have a site up right now-- the old one taken off the internet.

What I want to do is name a new page with the old name but VSD won't let me use spaces or underscores in page ID's. We want to use: Arts and Paintings

Preferably with spaces which is what the old page had.

Page ID's can't have spaces because the page ID is what is used for the document: artsandpaintings.html

I'm not sure I'm following along with exactly what you are trying to do with the redirect. Why not just use the new page?

I think I know what prairie means, for eg
I have links to old and now non existent pages on my website scattered throughout these forums.
Someone comes along and reads an old post and clicks the link and gets a 404 error page which because I have a custom error page will take him to the home page and from there he can get to what he wants.

What I think prairie wants is to be able to be redirected directly to the new page arts.
I cant see how his old page could have a page id with spaces in however.

Greg,
You are exactly right --- my writing wasn't completely clear! sorry bout that!

Want to do what you are doing for the old pages -- a custom error page to take them to the home instead of them getting a 404 error.

For some reason the original site was set up with a few pages that had spaces in the name--- they used another software that allowed it apparently but now are using VSD.

So they will just have to live with it -- it is only 3 pages that will get the 404.
Thanks for the help!

prairie, glad to be of help.
I created mine in VSD as a normal page and then I put it on my server replacing the cPanel standard one.

Hope it works for you.

Greg

Hiya Greg,

Do you have access to a CPanel? If you do you should have a redirect system in there that will allow you to do very easy and clean redirects without any coding at all. If you don't have that then ... nevermind

Hi Jo Ann,
Yes I do have access to cPanel but wanted an error page that matched the website, so thought that was the easiest way to do it.
Using VSD it did not need any coding anyway.

Greg

Ahh ok Greg, that makes sense. What about creating that page yourself and then putting in the redirect in the Cpanel? This way you can include a link or button to the new location of the page? Just another thought