301 redirect again!

[rj]

Judebert blessed me with the code to my 301 from the website to the blog.
The only problem is that the page rank did not go with it.
But the pagerank is still high at rackjite.com/index.htm
So I was thinking, can I change the code below from the generic domain name to the specific index file which I think would hold the PR.
You know, get "/index.htm" into that second line somehow.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rackjite\.com
RewriteRule0 ^(.*)$ http://rackjite.com/serendipity/$1 [R=permanent,L]


Thanx

RJ

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

But if you put index.htm in there, you will not redirect those people to your blog - and that's the goal, right?

Best regards,
Garvin

[rj]

Yes!

So I gather what you are saying is if I were to incluce the index.htm in the 301 line, then only those who are clicking a link with the index.htm in the url will get to serendipity? Right... It doesnt automaically SENSE that index.htm IS the domain landing page... Or something...

What has changed since Judebert helped with this, is now I no longer care at all what happens to the old website index page. Rackjite.com/index.htm.
And it holds the Google Page Rank. It did not move over with domain 301.

The difference in PR is 5 for the webpage and 4 for the blog. I didnt think that mattered much but not a few people are telling me just that one number matters a lot. I dont know, its staying pretty steady at 10,000 a day this week, and if it holds for awhile I suppose the PR will go up. But I also hear that takes FOREVER.

Well I guess what I am asking is does ANYONE KNOW how the 301 can carry over the old PR?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

If you include index.htm in your page there, then people who call a URL in the basedir get to your "index.htm" root page, and not to your blog.

I'll have to withdraw from this topic though, it gets much too confusing for me, and I don't know much about domain redirection and google.

Regards,
Garvin