david, perhaps you can set up an htaccess redirect to send the visitor who tries to access yoursite.com/ to yoursite.com/welcome.htm
for example, i want to visit http://www.blacksmithsblog.com. the owner, having installed WP in the root of their public html folder, instead wants me to go to another page FIRST, then to the blog.
that’s what you’d use the htaccess for.
it’s fairly simple in most cases, depending on if you’re using cpanel or if you’re hard coding your .htaccess file
It’s usefull to know you can do that with .htaccess, thanks I think that’s half of it solved.
The thing is, I don’t want people to goto the front page of the blog (as it is) afterwards.
At the moment I have 4 links: page-1, page-2, category-1 and category-2. I dont want to have a page available to the public with posts from both categories on it.
Any ideas?
I tried redirecting via .htaccess using this:
Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.artmunro.com/category/updates/
and also this:
Redirect 301 / http://www.artmunro.com/category/updates/
But it doesn’t want to work, I get this error: ‘redirection limit for this url exceeded..’
I’m guessing it is creating a loop or something, you probably can’t redirect a website to a directory within itself.
I guess I could get .htaccess to point to index.html and redirect via that. Not sure if that is ideal though as people would still be able to access index.php
