[geeks] setting browser default home page

[Edward Chase]

This is getting more complex than I wanted.  I've already got my 
redirection working via my firewall.  I'm just looking to add a one click 
way for the students to change their default browser home page.

I appreciate your input, but it's straying away from the original question.



At 02:00 PM 10/18/2001 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

>Not if you set up a named-based vhost on your machine, that for all intents
>and purposes thinks that its www.theothersite.com.  Then, *only for that
>vhost*, do a :
>
>ErrorDocument 404 http://www.theothersite.com
>
>That way, they get the "main page" informing them of the closure no matter
>what they request - because they're getting sent that as the *error page*,
>too.
>
>See http://www.sunhelp.org/pages.php as an example - I have a "normal"
>404 error page, but could easly just redirect everyone back to the main
>page instead of an error page.

>On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:16:55PM -0400, Edward Chase wrote:
> > I kind of like the idea of informing the students of the closure.
> > Going with your thought, let's say for some reason a student has bookmarked
> > www.theothersite.com/somewebpage.html
> > wouldn't they end up attempting to get
> > www.providence.edu/somewebpage.html and then end up with a Page Not Found
> > error?

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