Redirect Your Personal Homepage to Your Blog

Mon, 05/14/2007 - 14:42 — Blog Team

In the current blog configuration, if you want your blog to be your Penn State Personal Homepage, you will need to create a redirect page.

Find the URL of your blog by clicking View Site button or link.
Create a blank HTML document called index.html (the homepage). Make sure you are in the view HTML code window.
Insert the following HTML code into your document
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=BLOG URL HERE" /> </head> <body> </body> </html>
After the url=tag, copy and paste the URL of your blog.
Download and archive your old home page, then upload the new index.html into your www directory via SFTP or the Penn State Portal Pass Explorer (http://www.psu.edu/portalproject/passexplorer/).
When users go to your homepage (e.g. http://www.personal.psu.edu/xyz123), they will be redirected to your blogs.

See A Guide for Penn State Web Developers for more information on posting static HTML pages.

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