A New Way to Manage Your .Htaccess
The Extension Manager
Edit the current extensions in your account or create your own custom extensions. It allows users to specify which application (PHP, for instance) handles certain file extensions (.php5, for instance). Located under 'Settings' in the Hosting Control Center for more details see the following help article.
How do I change the default program for a file type in my hosting account?
Site Redirects Manager
Now you can send your visitors to a different destination within your site or to a completely new web address. Located under 'Content' in the Hosting Control Center, the Site Redirects Manager is the place to create, modify and delete domain redirects. They can be 301(permanent) or 302 (temporary). Lets take a look at some common redirect scenarios.
Example 1: Redirect All Domains
In this example, any domain that is pointing to this hosting account, regardless of its path, will be redirected to http://externaldomain.org. In most cases, there will be no need to specify a path.
Example 2:Redirect to a Blog
In this example, the customer wants to redirect their domain http://example.org to their blog at http://example.org/blog. This redirect will be very common and will cause a redirect loop if you select any content-type other than “No Redirect”. When working properly, if the browser tries to go to http://example.org, it will be redirected to http://example.org/blog.
Example 3: Specifying a Path
If you have created a blog with Wordpress and you want people who go to your Joomla site to be redirected to your new blog site, then you may need to specify a path. The example below will redirect http://example.org/joomla to http://example.org/wordpress. In this case you may want to redirect the contents since there is no risk of a redirect loop.
Use these instructions for setting up a Redirect using the Site Redirects Manager.
Hello,
I think something is wrong with the .htaccess import you guys probably use(d). In my case, the WordPress redirects looks strange and part of the path string is displayed in the domain field.
Ah well, it's probably version 1.0
Anyway, the concept is great!
Thank you
Pim
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The Sites Redirect Manager reads RewriteConditions & RewriteRules from the .htaccess file in your html directory. When the Sites Redirect Manager opens it tries to read these directives but cannot parse them properly because they are not in the expected format. We plan to add enhancements to the Site Redirects Manager in the future so that it will not try to read directives that it didn't write itself.
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Is this feature also available for windows hosting using ASP.NET and PHP5 ??
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This tools is currently only available for Linux hosting.
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This is great for Linux hosting, but what about IIS7 hosting? You have the ability to something similar with IIS7. Can we get this functionality?
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We can certainly look in to it. We'll keep you posted, thanks!
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My htaccess dont work
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This article offers more assistance: http://blog.godaddyhosting.com/2008/02/08/htaccess.aspx
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I don't have a Site Redirects Manager option under Content in my Hosting Control Center
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More then likely it's because you are on a Windows hosting account. If that is not the case, please contact our support team for assistance at 480-505-8877 or support@godaddy.com.
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I have a twofold issue. I went to the Extension Manager as you described, but I did not see any way to get Java/Tomcat to handle extensions. I need it to handle .html, nothing else will do. Also, how do I know if Tomcat is actually handling requests? Are there any test servlets in the WEB-INF directory? According to the servlet specification, extension settings in web.xml override any Apache settings.
Thanks much! -- bob
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I thought I remembered seeing something about .htaccess files being supported once we upgraded to IIS7, but I can't find anything about it in the help files. If .htaccess isn't supported in IIS7, then do you know any way to do a 301 redirect on a .html page on a shared windows hosting account?
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I recommend taking a look at these threads on the IIS website for more details.
http://forums.iis.net/p/1146147/1856179.aspx
http://forums.iis.net/t/1151044.aspx
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