RE: Help - missing htm extension?

["David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com>]

Another possible approach would be to create a mirror of the page and place
it in a folder with the same name as the correct file; e.g.:

correct webpage: stuff/file.htm
mirrored page:   stuff/file/index.htm

David Berg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-techwr-l-42532 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-42532 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Hart, Geoff

> Another Writer (who might just be T Jones reports: <<The head of our sales
> team just sent out an invitation to our website to 200 people and
> neglected
> to include .htm at the end of the [file name]; Using IIS, this
> doesn't fly -
> you
> get a 404 error. Is there anything I can do to create a page that
> works with
> IIS that we can use to redirect users to the correct page?>>
>
> Assuming that the file itself is actually coded in HTML, all you
> need to do
> is rename the file; if you have direct shell access to your
> server and know
> UNIX, you can do this directly from the command line; if not,
> most good FTP
> software (I like ws_ftp, which you can download from www.tucows.com)
> contains a "rename" command that will let you navigate to the
> directory the
> file's in and change the name.


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