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Hello,i'm new here but have a question (sorry for my bad English)

my shop has been made on osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.1

 

i want to redirect this shop/site to another url than current. can someone tell me how to? i don't have en ftp login (problems with designer) only an admin login thru url.

 

thanks for helpin me out

 

kind regards,

grietina

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Hi,

 

without ftp account you cant do it.

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osCommerce based shop owner with minimal design and focused on background works. When the less is more.
Email managment with tracking pixel, package managment for shipping, stock management, warehouse managment with bar code reader, parcel shops management on 3000 pickup points without local store.

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Please clarify what you are asking for. Let's say you have abc.com for a site domain. Are you looking to have xyz.com also go to this store, or xyz.com replace abc.com, or have visitors to abc.com go to xyz.com's site, or you want to keep abc.com (same domain) but have the store in a different directory/folder?

 

For most of these, you will need full site access to abc.com's files and database, which you say you don't have.

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If they don't have basic site access (hosting control panel), it's unlikely that they have (separate) DNS access to update their domain name, but perhaps they do.

 

@grietina, if you lose access to your hosting because you forgot your password, or it's being held hostage by a developer, if it's in your name (and paid for by you) most hosts can make a new password for you if you present proof of who you are (such as the credit card number used to pay for the account). On the other hand, if the domain and site were registered in the developer's name, and paid for through the developer, all you can do is kiss up to them, make up and pay whatever they demand to get your site back.

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thanks all for the replays I'll try to get the fpt account so i can get further. if thats succesful then what to do?

change a page or...

thanks all for the replays I'll try to get the ftp account so i can get further. the only thing i have is an login for the managable sitelogin true www......

 

if thats succesful then what to do?

change a page or...

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It's not clear for me if you want to:

 

- Redirect your shop to another domain

- Redirect your shop to another directory in the same domain

- Move your shop to another hosting

- Move your shop to another domain

- Other

 

It would be helpful if you tell us what exactly you want to do.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'm Back sorry for waiting. what i mean is that i want to rederect the site to another domain and from oscommerce to wordpress

www.a.com -> www.b.com

oscommerce ->wordpress

 

and it would be nice if i could place a line on the homepage saying "you will be automaticly rederected to our new site in xx seconds, if not press here"  something like that.

 

 

oh and not to forget:  i've received the ftp codes finally!! :-)

 

i hope that wil answer your questions so you hopefully help me further.

thank you !

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/index.php:

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirect to b.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=www.b.com"/>
</head>
<body>
You should be automatically redirected to our new site, b.com, in 5 seconds. If not, press <a href="http://www.b.com">here</a>.
</body>
</html>

You could have a copy of this as /index.html if you want, which would eliminate the need to immediately remove or rename osC's /index.php. If you have existing customers coming in specifically to index.php, it would be best to replace index.php.

 

That's one way to do it. On an Apache ("Linux") server, you can also use .htaccess to redirect visitors to anything on a.com over to b.com. However, there will be no message displayed.

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Hello MrPhil,

 

thanks for your answer, but to be honest,I really shouldn't know how to. I'm sorry I know a bit about the looks, but this is really other stuff.

You say there would be an option to place a index.html in front of, but when i look into de files through filezilla there are only *.php files

 

/index.php:

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirect to b.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=www.b.com"/>
</head>
<body>
You should be automatically redirected to our new site, b.com, in 5 seconds. If not, press <a href="http://www.b.com">here</a>.
</body>
</html>

You could have a copy of this as /index.html if you want, which would eliminate the need to immediately remove or rename osC's /index.php. If you have existing customers coming in specifically to index.php, it would be best to replace index.php.

 

That's one way to do it. On an Apache ("Linux") server, you can also use .htaccess to redirect visitors to anything on a.com over to b.com. However, there will be no message displayed.

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osC doesn't include an index.html. You would have to create that file, either from your hosting control panel, or on your PC and upload it with FTP. On most servers, index.html will be looked for before index.php. The problem is that bookmarked pages may send a visitor directly to index.php, bypassing index.html, so you might as well just rename the old index.php to something else (until you erase osC) and create a new index.php to replace it.

 

If you have no idea what you're doing, you should hire someone to do the job for you.

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osC doesn't include an index.html. You would have to create that file, either from your hosting control panel, or on your PC and upload it with FTP. On most servers, index.html will be looked for before index.php. The problem is that bookmarked pages may send a visitor directly to index.php, bypassing index.html, so you might as well just rename the old index.php to something else (until you erase osC) and create a new index.php to replace it.

 

If you have no idea what you're doing, you should hire someone to do the job for you.

you're right, but there's nothing wrong about trying is it? I've placed your script in a index.html file and placed it true ftp in the public_html folder.

ofcourse renamed b.com fot the real url,  and now i get by visiting the original site an error wich says :"The requested URL /www.t........nl was not found on this server. but the manual link works fine, what went wrong?

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Try it with a comma before the URL so it looks a bit more like this...

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30; ,URL=http://www.metatags.info/login">

 

Dan

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Without the comma used to work fine. Did the HTTP spec change recently? It seems silly to have two separators (; and ,). I thought that just giving the domain etc. without the http:// used to work too -- did that change?

 

 

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@@MrPhil

 

Without the comma used to work fine. Did the HTTP spec change recently? It seems silly to have two separators (; and ,). I thought that just giving the domain etc. without the http:// used to work too -- did that change?

 

No idea MrPhil...I just googled it and that is what I came up with.  I'm not even sure that it works.

 

Dan

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