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Doing 401/404 pages and link forwarding without a webserver? lotusvine 01-22-2008
Posted by lotusvine on January 22, 2008, 7:38 pm
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I'm builidng an intranet site at work. The catch is, it's just a
bunch of HTML pages on a shared drive. I don't have access to a
webserver. I have to do everything in Microsoft HTML, using Word.
(No, not even Front Page. Don't ask; it's a management thing.)

Do you know if it's possible to do any of the following under these
circumstances?

1) Create a customised 401/404 page?
2) Do link forwarding? I have to link to a document which has a title
that changes all the time. This document is linked to on lots of
different web-pages. I'd like to only update the document's name
once, while at the same time, have so it that any link on in the
intranet to this document opens the document immediately without any
other intermediate webpages or clicks. Is to possible to do something
like link forwarding using basic HTML?

Regards,
Belinda

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on January 22, 2008, 8:29 pm
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lotusvine@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm builidng an intranet site at work. The catch is, it's just a
> bunch of HTML pages on a shared drive. I don't have access to a
> webserver. I have to do everything in Microsoft HTML, using Word.
> (No, not even Front Page. Don't ask; it's a management thing.)


Hmmm we want you to build this house, here are the boards and the nails.
Sorry no hammer or saw you *must* use this shovel and screw driver! Yep,
it does sound that dumb.

>
> Do you know if it's possible to do any of the following under these
> circumstances?
>
> 1) Create a customised 401/404 page?

If your not using a web webserver there is nothing to direct you to such
pages...

> 2) Do link forwarding? I have to link to a document which has a title
> that changes all the time. This document is linked to on lots of
> different web-pages. I'd like to only update the document's name
> once, while at the same time, have so it that any link on in the
> intranet to this document opens the document immediately without any
> other intermediate webpages or clicks. Is to possible to do something
> like link forwarding using basic HTML?

In HTML? No.

Better idea! If your bosses don't want to use a webserver because they
see $$ when looking ate M$'s $erver $oftware then look up Apache

http://www.apache.org/
Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation

More webservers on the Internet use this server, and yes it works on
Windows, and yes you can install it without ponying up the $$.

Then build an intranet server that will actually *works*, what your
bosses want will not.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on January 22, 2008, 9:22 pm
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Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> lotusvine@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have to do everything in Microsoft HTML, using Word.

No you don't.

>> (No, not even Front Page. Don't ask; it's a management thing.)

Word is a lot worse than FrontPage at creating HTML.

> http://www.apache.org/
> Welcome! - The Apache Software Foundation

For Windows, the complete, easy package:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Posted by Stefan Ram on January 22, 2008, 10:16 pm
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>Word is a lot worse than FrontPage at creating HTML.

Actually, you can use VBA (a part of Microsoft® Word) to map
every character and style to exactly the HTML-source you want.

Some notes about and source code for this:

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/wrocco_en



Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on January 22, 2008, 10:30 pm
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Stefan Ram wrote:

>>Word is a lot worse than FrontPage at creating HTML.
>
> Actually, you can use VBA (a part of Microsoft® Word) to map
> every character and style to exactly the HTML-source you want.

Do you know any common people who would know how to do that?

> Some notes about and source code for this:
>
> http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/wrocco_en

Your page redirects to:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht44Ht/wrocco_en

which says:
HTTP/1.1 403 Access Denied.

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-Friends don't let friends drive Vista

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