Re: Removing obsolete pages from a site

On 10/12/07 04:56 am, David Segall wrote:
I have some pages on my web site that are no longer useful but I am
reluctant to simply delete them because they may be returned by a
search engine and, in any case, they are referenced in some Usenet
posts of mine which will never be deleted.

My current plan is to amend them to indicate they are obsolete and
remove the links to them on my web site. The links on the obsolete
page would allow someone to browse back to the current site but not
vice versa.

Is there a better or "standard" way of dealing with this problem?

In <.htaccess> add this type of directive:
Redirect permanent /oldpage.php http://example.com/newpage.php

After a year or so change it to:
Redirect gone /oldpage.php


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