301 redirects and iWeb index page

Our site has grown and we will be changing our domain name and hosting co. (We are keeping the old domain active for a while at MME before we change domain name and hosting) I will need to redirect traffic for a while so as not to lose those who have just bookmarked us. Will just redirecting on the index page that iWeb creates (post publish) do that without creating a mess of our page rankings at Google? Currently we are in the top 15 responses for our search terms. Or should i create some other type of redirect? 301? (via cname or htaccess) will that ding me at google? Thanks- try to keep it as simple as possible - I don't code - I experiment and Apple has made it easy.
jy

What I would do is purchase the hosting and see if you can have more than one add-on domain. Most web hosts let you do this on one account so it doesn't cost you any more money. You are doing this because you will need a .htaccess file to set up your 301 redirects properly. This is what you should do;
1) Register your new domain and publish your site to it.
2) Create a webmaster tools account for BOTH your old and new domain name.
3) Create a 301 redirect for each individual page to the new corresponding page on your new domain. This can be done with a few lines in your .htaccess file. The file should be in your root folder of your OLD domain. Put this on your .htaccess file (NOTE: This assumes you will have the exact same website structure on the new domain);
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mynewdomain.com/$1 \[R=301,L\]
OPTIONAL: Use Google's canonical tag on each one of your pages to avoid any issues with duplicate content. Link the old page to it's new corresponding page. This is optional but recommended if you can;
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newdomain.com/newpage.html" />
4) Login to your Webmaster Tools account and select your OLD domain. Then select 'Site Configuration' and then 'change of address'. Follow the steps provided (which are basically what I told you above). Step 4 in there is the important one.
5) Submit a sitemap for your new website. This will make sure you know when Google has indexed your new website.
6) Important: Even though you have done everything properly there is a chance your rankings will change. To help prevent this, update as many third party links as you can to your new site. This won't be possible for all links since you won't have control over them but you should try contacting the website owners who have linked to you to update their links. You should also try getting new links to your new domain.
You can find all the sites you have linked to you by logging into your webmaster tools account and clicking your OLD domain. Then go to 'Your site on the web' and then to 'Links to your site'.
Nothing will be instant here, it will take a few days for everything to update but the above is the way Google recommends you do it.
HTH

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Thanks for replying. The URL you've bolded is actually the correct page I'd like the redirect to go to when the form is successfully submitted after validation. But for some reason, that URL request is being ignored and the redirect brings me back to the index page in the root directory. I don't see anywhere in the code that makes the request to do that. Unless that's a default behavior if I've gotten the redirect wrong?
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// Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
// All rights reserved.
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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                var punyencoded = '';
                for (var i=0; i<host.length; i++) {
                    punyencoded = Spry.Widget.Utils.punycode_encode(host[i], 64);
                    if (!punyencoded) {
                        return false;
                    } else {
                        if (punyencoded != (host[i] + "-")) {
                            host[i] = 'xn--' + punyencoded;
                host = host .join(".");
                //the encoded domain name is replaced into the original URL to be validated again later as URL
                value = value.replace(URI_spliter, "$1//" + host + "$5$6$8");
            //fix for ?ID=223358 and ?ID=223594
            //the following validates an URL using ABNF rules as defined in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 , Appendix A., page 49
            //except host which is extracted by match[1] and validated separately
             * userinfo=    (?:(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=:]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*\@)?
             * host=            (?:((?:(?:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\-]*[a-z0-9]|[a-z0-9])\.)*(?:[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*[a-z0-9]|[a-z])|(?: \[[^\]]*\]))
             * pathname=    (?:\/(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)*
             * query=            (?:\?(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@\/\?]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)?
             * anchor=        (?:\#(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@\/\?]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)?
            var regExp = /^(?:https?|ftp)\:\/\/(?:(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=:]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*\@)?(?: ((?:(?:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9\-]*[a-z0-9]|[a-z0-9])\.)*(?:[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*[a-z0-9]|[a-z])|(?:\[[^ \]]*\]))(?:\:[0-9]*)?)(?:\/(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)*( ?:\?(?:[a-z0-9\-\._~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@\/\?]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)?(?:\#(?:[a-z0-9\-\._ ~\!\$\&\'\*\+\,\;\=\:\@\/\?]|%[0-9a-f]{2,2})*)?$/i;
            var valid = value.match(regExp);
            if (valid) {
                //extract the address from URL
                var address = valid[1];
                if (address) {
                    if (address == '[]') {
                        return false;
                    if (address.charAt(0) == '[' ) {
                        //IPv6 address or IPv4 enclosed in square brackets
                        address = address.replace(/^\[|\]$/gi, '');
                        return Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.validateIP(address, 'ipv6_ipv4');
                    } else {
                        if (/[^0-9\.]/.test(address)) {
                            return true;
                        } else {
                            //check if hostname is all digits and dots and then check for IPv4
                            return Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.validateIP(address, 'ipv4');
                } else {
                    return true;
            } else {
                return false;
2.2.1. Preferred
x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where the 'x's are the hexadecimal values of the eight 16-bit pieces of the address.
Examples:
    FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210
    1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A
Note that it is not necessary to write the leading zeros in an
individual field, but there must be at least one numeral in every
field (except for the case described in 2.2.2.).
2.2.2. Compressed
The use of "::" indicates multiple groups of 16-bits of zeros.
The "::" can only appear once in an address. The "::" can also be
used to compress the leading and/or trailing zeros in an address.
    1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A --> 1080::8:800:200C:417A
    FF01:0:0:0:0:0:0:101 --> FF01::101
    0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 --> ::1
    0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 --> ::
2.5.4 IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses
    IPv4-compatible IPv6 address (tunnel IPv6 packets over IPv4 routing infrastructures)
    ::0:129.144.52.38
    IPv4-mapped IPv6 address (represent the addresses of IPv4-only nodes as IPv6 addresses)
    ::ffff:129.144.52.38
The text representation of IPv6 addresses and prefixes in Augmented BNF (Backus-Naur Form) [ABNF] for reference purposes.
[ABNF http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2234]
      IPv6address = hexpart [ ":" IPv4address ]
      IPv4address = 1*3DIGIT "." 1*3DIGIT "." 1*3DIGIT "." 1*3DIGIT
      IPv6prefix = hexpart "/" 1*2DIGIT
      hexpart = hexseq | hexseq "::" [ hexseq ] | "::" [ hexseq ]
      hexseq = hex4 *( ":" hex4)
      hex4    = 1*4HEXDIG
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.validateIP = function (value, format)
    var validIPv6Addresses = [
        //preferred
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){7}[a-f0-9]{1,4}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        //various compressed
        /^[a-f0-9]{0,4}::(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^:(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,6}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){1,6}:(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:)(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,6}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){2}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,5}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){3}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,4}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){5}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,2}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){6}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4})(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        //IPv6 mixes with IPv4
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){6}(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^:(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){0,4}:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){1,5}:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:)(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,4}:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){2}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,3}:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){3}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}){1,2}:(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i,
        /^(?:[a-f0-9]{1,4}:){4}(?::[a-f0-9]{1,4}):(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(?:\/\d{1,3})?$/i
    var validIPv4Addresses = [
        //IPv4
        /^(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}$/i
    var validAddresses = [];
    if (format == 'ipv6' || format == 'ipv6_ipv4') {
        validAddresses = validAddresses.concat(validIPv6Addresses);
    if (format == 'ipv4' || format == 'ipv6_ipv4') {
        validAddresses = validAddresses.concat(validIPv4Addresses);
    var ret = false;
    for (var i=0; i<validAddresses.length; i++) {
        if (validAddresses[i].test(value)) {
            ret = true;
            break;
    if (ret && value.indexOf(".") != -1) {
        //if address contains IPv4 fragment, it must be valid; all 4 groups must be less than 256
        var ipv4 = value.match(/:?(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/i);
        if(!ipv4) {
            return false;
        ipv4 = ipv4[0].replace(/^:/, '');
        var pieces = ipv4.split('.');
        if (pieces.length != 4) {
            return false;
        var regExp = /^[\-\+]?\d*$/;
        for (var i=0; i< pieces.length; i++) {
            if (pieces[i] == '') {
                return false;
            var piece = parseInt(pieces[i], 10);
            if (isNaN(piece) || piece > 255 || !regExp.test(pieces[i]) || pieces[i].length>3 || /^0{2,3}$/.test(pieces[i])) {
                return false;
    if (ret && value.indexOf("/") != -1) {
        // if prefix-length is specified must be in [1-128]
        var prefLen = value.match(/\/\d{1,3}$/);
        if (!prefLen) return false;
        var prefLenVal = parseInt(prefLen[0].replace(/^\//,''), 10);
        if (isNaN(prefLenVal) || prefLenVal > 128 || prefLenVal < 1) {
            return false;
    return ret;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.onloadDidFire = false;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.loadQueue = [];
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.isBrowserSupported = function()
    return Spry.is.ie && Spry.is.v >= 5 && Spry.is.windows
        ||
    Spry.is.mozilla && Spry.is.v >= 1.4
        ||
    Spry.is.safari
        ||
    Spry.is.opera && Spry.is.v >= 9;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.init = function(element, options)
    this.element = this.getElement(element);
    this.errors = 0;
    this.flags = {locked: false, restoreSelection: true};
    this.options = {};
    this.event_handlers = [];
    this.validClass = "textfieldValidState";
    this.focusClass = "textfieldFocusState";
    this.requiredClass = "textfieldRequiredState";
    this.hintClass = "textfieldHintState";
    this.invalidFormatClass = "textfieldInvalidFormatState";
    this.invalidRangeMinClass = "textfieldMinValueState";
    this.invalidRangeMaxClass = "textfieldMaxValueState";
    this.invalidCharsMinClass = "textfieldMinCharsState";
    this.invalidCharsMaxClass = "textfieldMaxCharsState";
    this.textfieldFlashTextClass = "textfieldFlashText";
    if (Spry.is.safari) {
        this.flags.lastKeyPressedTimeStamp = 0;
    switch (this.type) {
        case 'phone_number':options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'phone_us');break;
        case 'currency':options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'comma_dot');break;
        case 'zip_code':options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'zip_us5');break;
        case 'date':
            options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'mm/dd/yy');
            break;
        case 'time':
            options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'HH:mm');
            options.pattern = options.format.replace(/[hms]/gi, "0").replace(/TT/gi, 'AM').replace(/T/gi, 'A');
            break;
        case 'ip':
            options.format = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.format, 'ipv4');
            options.characterMasking = Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ValidationDescriptors[this.type].characterMaskingFormats[ options.format];
            break;
    //retrieve the validation type descriptor to be used with this instance (base on type and format)
    //widgets may have different validations depending on format (like zip_code with formats)
    var validationDescriptor = {};
    if (options.format && Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ValidationDescriptors[this.type].formats) {
        if (Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ValidationDescriptors[this.type].formats[options.format] ) {
            Spry.Widget.Utils.setOptions(validationDescriptor, Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ValidationDescriptors[this.type].formats[options.format]) ;
    } else {
        Spry.Widget.Utils.setOptions(validationDescriptor, Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ValidationDescriptors[this.type]);
    //set default values for some parameters which were not aspecified
    options.useCharacterMasking = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.useCharacterMasking, false);
    options.hint = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.hint, '');
    options.isRequired = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.isRequired, true);
    options.additionalError = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.additionalError, false);
    if (options.additionalError)
        options.additionalError = this.getElement(options.additionalError);
    //set widget validation parameters
    //get values from validation type descriptor
    //use the user specified values, if defined
    options.characterMasking = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.characterMasking, validationDescriptor.characterMasking);
    options.regExpFilter = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.regExpFilter, validationDescriptor.regExpFilter);
    options.pattern = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.pattern, validationDescriptor.pattern);
    options.validation = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.validation, validationDescriptor.validation);
    if (typeof options.validation == 'string') {
        options.validation = eval(options.validation);
    options.minValue = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.minValue, validationDescriptor.minValue);
    options.maxValue = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.maxValue, validationDescriptor.maxValue);
    options.minChars = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.minChars, validationDescriptor.minChars);
    options.maxChars = Spry.Widget.Utils.firstValid(options.maxChars, validationDescriptor.maxChars);
    Spry.Widget.Utils.setOptions(this, options);
    Spry.Widget.Utils.setOptions(this.options, options);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.destroy = function() {
    if (this.event_handlers)
        for (var i=0; i<this.event_handlers.length; i++) {
            Spry.Widget.Utils.removeEventListener(this.event_handlers[i][0], this.event_handlers[i][1], this.event_handlers[i][2], false);
    try { delete this.element; } catch(err) {}
    try { delete this.input; } catch(err) {}
    try { delete this.form; } catch(err) {}
    try { delete this.event_handlers; } catch(err) {}
    try { this.selection.destroy(); } catch(err) {}
    try { delete this.selection; } catch(err) {}
    var q = Spry.Widget.Form.onSubmitWidgetQueue;
    var qlen = q.length;
    for (var i = 0; i < qlen; i++) {
        if (q[i] == this) {
            q.splice(i, 1);
            break;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.attachBehaviors = function()
    if (this.element) {
        if (this.element.nodeName == "INPUT") {
            this.input = this.element;
        } else {
            this.input = Spry.Widget.Utils.getFirstChildWithNodeNameAtAnyLevel(this.element, "INPUT");
    if (this.input) {
        if (this.maxChars) {
            this.input.removeAttribute("maxLength");
        this.putHint();
        this.compilePattern();
        if (this.type == 'date') {
            this.compileDatePattern();
        this.input.setAttribute("AutoComplete", "off");
        this.selection = new Spry.Widget.SelectionDescriptor(this.input);
        this.oldValue = this.input.value;
        var self = this;
        this.event_handlers = [];
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "keydown", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onKeyDown(e || event); }]);
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "keypress", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onKeyPress(e || event); }]);
        if (Spry.is.opera) {
            this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "keyup", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onKeyUp(e || event); }]);
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "focus", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onFocus(e || event); }]);
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "blur", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onBlur(e || event); }]);
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "mousedown", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onMouseDown(e || event); }]);
        var changeEvent =
            Spry.is.mozilla || Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari?"input":
            Spry.is.ie?"propertychange":
            "change";
        this.event_handlers.push([this.input, changeEvent, function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onChange(e || event); }]);
        if (Spry.is.mozilla || Spry.is.safari) {
            //oninput event on mozilla does not fire ondragdrop
            this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "dragdrop", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; self.removeHint();return self.onChange(e || event); }]);
        } else if (Spry.is.ie){
            //ondrop&onpropertychange crash on IE
            this.event_handlers.push([this.input, "drop", function(e) { if (self.isDisabled()) return true; return self.onDrop(e || event); }]);
        for (var i=0; i<this.event_handlers.length; i++) {
            Spry.Widget.Utils.addEventListener(this.event_handlers[i][0], this.event_handlers[i][1], this.event_handlers[i][2], false);
        // submit
        this.form = Spry.Widget.Utils.getFirstParentWithNodeName(this.input, "FORM");
        if (this.form) {
            // if no "onSubmit" handler has been attached to the current form, attach one
            if (!this.form.attachedSubmitHandler && !this.form.onsubmit) {
                this.form.onsubmit = function(e) { e = e || event; return Spry.Widget.Form.onSubmit(e, e.srcElement || e.currentTarget) };
                this.form.attachedSubmitHandler = true;
            if (!this.form.attachedResetHandler) {
                Spry.Widget.Utils.addEventListener(this.form, "reset", function(e) { e = e || event; return Spry.Widget.Form.onReset(e, e.srcElement || e.currentTarget) }, false);
                this.form.attachedResetHandler = true;
            // add the currrent widget to the "onSubmit" check queue;
            Spry.Widget.Form.onSubmitWidgetQueue.push(this);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.isDisabled = function() {
    return this.input && (this.input.disabled || this.input.readOnly) || !this.input;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.getElement = function(ele)
    if (ele && typeof ele == "string")
        return document.getElementById(ele);
    return ele;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.addLoadListener = function(handler)
    if (typeof window.addEventListener != 'undefined')
        window.addEventListener('load', handler, false);
    else if (typeof document.addEventListener != 'undefined')
        document.addEventListener('load', handler, false);
    else if (typeof window.attachEvent != 'undefined')
        window.attachEvent('onload', handler);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.processLoadQueue = function(handler)
    Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.onloadDidFire = true;
    var q = Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.loadQueue;
    var qlen = q.length;
    for (var i = 0; i < qlen; i++)
        q[i].attachBehaviors();
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.addLoadListener(Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.processLoa dQueue);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.addLoadListener(function(){
    Spry.Widget.Utils.addEventListener(window, "unload", Spry.Widget.Form.destroyAll, false);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.setValue = function(newValue) {
    this.flags.locked = true;
    this.input.value = newValue;
    this.flags.locked = false;
    this.oldValue = newValue;
    if (!Spry.is.ie) {
        this.onChange();
* save the state of the input (selection and value) so we can revert to it
* should call this just before modifying the input value
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.saveState = function()
    this.oldValue = this.input.value;
    this.selection.update();
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.revertState = function(revertValue)
    if (revertValue != this.input.value) {
        this.input.readOnly = true;
        this.input.value = revertValue;
        this.input.readOnly = false;
        if (Spry.is.safari && this.flags.active) {
            this.input.focus();
if (this.flags.restoreSelection) {
    this.selection.moveTo(this.selection.start, this.selection.end);
    this.redTextFlash();
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.removeHint = function()
    if (this.flags.hintOn) {
        this.input.value = "";
        this.flags.hintOn = false;
        this.removeClassName(this.element, this.hintClass);
        this.removeClassName(this.additionalError, this.hintClass);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.putHint = function()
    if(this.hint && this.input && this.input.type == "text" && this.input.value == "") {
        this.flags.hintOn = true;
        this.input.value = this.hint;
        this.addClassName(this.element, this.hintClass);
        this.addClassName(this.additionalError, this.hintClass);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.redTextFlash = function()
    var self = this;
    this.addClassName(this.element, this.textfieldFlashTextClass);
    setTimeout(function() {
        self.removeClassName(self.element, self.textfieldFlashTextClass)
    }, 100);
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.doValidations = function(testValue, revertValue)
    if (this.isDisabled()) return false;
    if (this.flags.locked) {
        return false;
    if (testValue.length == 0 && !this.isRequired) {
        this.errors = 0;
        return false;
    this.flags.locked = true;
    var mustRevert = false;
    var continueValidations = true;
    if (!this.options.isRequired && testValue.length == 0) {
        continueValidations = false;
    var errors = 0;
    var fixedValue = testValue;
    //characterMasking - test if all characters are valid with the characterMasking (keyboard filter)
    if (this.useCharacterMasking && this.characterMasking) {
        for(var i=0; i<testValue.length; i++) {
            if (!this.characterMasking.test(testValue.charAt(i))) {
                errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_FORMAT;
                fixedValue = revertValue;
                mustRevert = true;
                break;
    //regExpFilter - character mask positioning (additional mask to restrict some characters only in some position)
    if (!mustRevert && this.useCharacterMasking && this.regExpFilter) {
        if (!this.regExpFilter.test(fixedValue)) {
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_FORMAT;
            mustRevert = true;
    //pattern - testValue matches the pattern so far
    if (!mustRevert && this.pattern) {
        var currentRegExp = this.patternToRegExp(testValue.length);
        if (!currentRegExp.test(testValue)) {
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_FORMAT;
            mustRevert = true;
        } else if (this.patternLength != testValue.length) {
            //testValue matches pattern so far, but it's not ok if it does not have the proper length
            //do not revert, but should show the error
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_FORMAT;
    if (fixedValue == '') {
        errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_REQUIRED;
    if (!mustRevert && this.pattern && this.useCharacterMasking) {
        var n = this.getAutoComplete(testValue.length);
        if (n) {
            fixedValue += n;
    if(!mustRevert && this.minChars !== null && continueValidations) {
        if (testValue.length < this.minChars) {
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_CHARS_MIN;
            continueValidations = false;
    if(!mustRevert && this.maxChars !== null && continueValidations) {
        if (testValue.length > this.maxChars) {
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_CHARS_MAX;
            continueValidations = false;
    //validation - testValue passes widget validation function
    if (!mustRevert && this.validation && continueValidations) {
        var value = this.validation(fixedValue, this.options);
        if (false === value) {
            errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_FORMAT;
            continueValidations = false;
        } else {
            this.typedValue = value;
    if(!mustRevert && this.validation && this.minValue !== null && continueValidations) {
        var minValue = this.validation(this.minValue.toString(), this.options);
        if (minValue !== false) {
            if (this.typedValue < minValue) {
                errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_RANGE_MIN;
                continueValidations = false;
    if(!mustRevert && this.validation && this.maxValue !== null && continueValidations) {
        var maxValue = this.validation(this.maxValue.toString(), this.options);
        if (maxValue !== false) {
            if( this.typedValue > maxValue) {
                errors = errors | Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.ERROR_RANGE_MAX;
                continueValidations = false;
    //an invalid value was tested; must make sure it does not get inside the input
    if (this.useCharacterMasking && mustRevert) {
        this.revertState(revertValue);
    this.errors = errors;
    this.fixedValue = fixedValue;
    this.flags.locked = false;
    return mustRevert;
Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField.prototype.onChange = function(e)
    if (Spry.is.opera && this.flags.operaRevertOnKeyUp) {
        return true;
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My swf is not showing up in my index page

I just switched to a VPS and my index page loads but without
the .swf. I know the page loads fine/the connection etc. is correct
but it's a no-go on my swf file, which is the only thing on the
page.
Take a look-see, www.monkeypunk.com. I called my host
(SmartLogic) and they don't know what the problem is, apparently
I've loaded everything properly. When I do a test in Dreamweaver,
the swf shows up.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Thanks.

monkeypunkninjaboy wrote:
> I just switched to a VPS and my index page loads but
without the .swf. I know
> the page loads fine/the connection etc. is correct but
it's a no-go on my swf
> file, which is the only thing on the page.
>
> Take a look-see, www.monkeypunk.com. I called my host
(SmartLogic) and they
> don't know what the problem is, apparently I've loaded
everything properly.
> When I do a test in Dreamweaver, the swf shows up.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem? Thanks.
>
I believe it's the JS fle reference path that cause this
problem.
Most likely it's incorrect and w/o that file the browser
won't load flash
correctly.
You are on the root of your server and you refer to that file
using:
../../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js
Also, suggest you don't use - in the file name. - stands
literally for MINUS and
some scripts will try to perform that operation on your file
string.
If you want to separate names, use underscore instead. This
has nothing to do
with the current problem, just a side note.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

How can I have a default servlet and an index.html?

Hi,
I writing a small webapp to test/understand the 2.2 Servlet Spec. I am deploying this as a WAR to Orion, Tomcat and Silverstream.
The app's name is: "myapp"
My application has an index.html, which is listed as the sole welcome-file in the welcome-file-list element in the app's web.xml.
The interesting thing is that, after adding a default Servlet (<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>), I can no longer access the app's index.html either implicitly or explicitly:
1. Implicit:
- http://localhost/myapp
- http://localhost/myapp/
2. Explicit:
- http://localhost/myapp/index.html
- http://localhost/myapp/index.html/
All of these invoke the Default Servlet in all 3 app servers.
Question: How can I have both a default Servlet and an index page?
Thanks in advance.
Miles

you can define it in the web.xml file
look at the dtd, element "welcome-file-list"

Template versus index page

I am designing a website with dreamweaver making a template. The template for the home page is pretty much done. Then I discovered that I not only need to make a template for the home page but a template for the pages I am connecting to the home page. (I had thought that after I made the home page template, I would save that as my index page?) My question is: Do I need both? When I upload it to my webhost, do I upload the template with the content, and the index page, or do I keep the template stored on my computer and then upload the site as just an index page plus the content pages picture files etc.?

The actual Dreamweaver Template (.dwt file) never gets uploaded, unless you want to share it with someone for some reason, like debugging.
.DWT files are only used by DW, not the server. Once you create a .dwt and have it saved in the Templates folder of your Defined Site, you will need to create Child Pages based off of it.
To do that, in DWCC...
1. Click File > New
2. Click Site Templates
3. Click the site where the template you want to use is located
4. Click the name of the template you want to use
5. Click Create
6. Make your edits to the Editable Regions of the newly created Child Page
7. Save the Child Page as whatever you like (index.html is a good starting point)
From there on out, if you make a change to the actual .dwt file, those changes will propagate to all of the Child Pages created in the above manner in your Defined Site.

IWeb '09 and creating an "Index" page for two separate sides of my website

I'm redesigning my website with iWeb '09 seeing that I've recently switched to Mac from being a life-long PC/Windows user. I'm not too web programming savvy so iWeb fits my needs as a very good program that redesigns my site very nicely (and quite inexpensively, as well).
My current incarnation of my website (http://www.jeffreykern.com) was designed by a professional web designer on Dreamweaver for PC a couple of years ago. Some time ago when I was trying to update my PC with XP SP 3 (bad idea as it turned out), my connection to my web hosting service got completely fouled up and I lost the ability to update the site and haven't updated my site since. Knowing that I was going to be switching to Mac (with my new Mac Pro) I never had the desire, or energy, to patch things up to update my site with my PC. Plus, I was in need of a redesign so I eventually got my site ready to go with iWeb 09. That's where I stand right now...
So, as you can see on my current site I have a main index page that splits up into the two sides of my life: the triathlete side and the writer side. I've already redesigned both sides of my site with iWeb, I'm ready to update it thru my web hosting via FTP and Transmit 3, but I cannot find how to create a main "Index" page on iWeb that will let me branch off into two different directions. By having that "Index" page intact I will be able to keep my domain of jeffreykern.com as it currently stands. I don't mind having to get two different domains for each of my two sides of my site but would like to avoid that extra step -- if, at all, possible.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Jeff

Building three websites on three separate domain files would be my choice.
Its important to realize that you cannot have a page called "index" using iWeb because the associated index.html file will conflict with the one that iWeb creates.
As has been suggested, the first site would be one page. The site name would be jeffreykern.
This site will publish as jeffreykern_files and an index.html file. Inside this folder is another index.html file. This is the one your domain name will be directed at if you don't need an RSS feed.
If your server allows it, create a root folder on it called "jeffreykern" and upload the contents of the local folder to this and ignore the separate index.html file. Note that I said contents and not the folder itself.
A lot of servers require that you upload to a pre existing folder. In this case you will have to upload the index.html file and the jeffreykern _files folder.
The two other sites are named and published as writer and triathlete. The external index files of these two sites are renamed writer.html and triathlete.html.
These two files and their corresponding folders are uploaded to your root folder on the server after adding tags and optimizing.......
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/SEO.html
Now you have a main (one page) site with two sub sites.
The domain name http://www.jeffreykern.com/ is directed at the index.html file so that when this is entered into the browser, the main page will appear.
The links to the two main sections, whether they be text and/or image, are created and selected as external hyperlinks.
http://www.jeffreykern.com/triathlete/
http://www.jeffreykern.com/writer/
Clicking these links will open the first page of their respective sites.
If you do the sensible thing and trash the iWeb default navigation to replace it with a custom one, you can include external hyperlinks to the landing page and the other site in this.
The website - iWeb for Musicians - is created like this and is built on 9 separate domain files for ease of updating and publishing. The whole site is tied together with a Main navigation to get to each section which has a Sub navigation to jump around that section.
For more on navigation see.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/Navigation.html
Also refer to Fonts, Colors and Navigation on this page ......
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebandInternetExplorer.html

Html and indexed pages

I am trying to get ranked in google and only my index pages
tend to get indexed. I do not understand why my secondary pages, do
not get indexed for Lake Martin Real Estate searches.
http://www.yourlakemartin.com
Site header and search word as follows:
LAKE MARTIN REAL
ESTATE

You can put a file called ".htaccess" in the root of any folder, and the server will use the directives in that file to control how it serves pages to the client. There is a complete set of commands you can find by Googling "htaccess", probably more than you'd want to read, but among them is the ability to do a server redirect for any page fetch, which would let you redirect all requests for *.html to *.php automatically. What's nice is that you can send a header along with the redirection that direts the search engines to adjust their indices, called a '301' header. It specifies that the page requested has been permanently relocated to the new page name.
On several of my sites I have such redirection being used - the .htaccess file contains markup like this -
RedirectEngine On
Redirect 301 /xyzzy.html http://www.example.com/xyzzy.php
Give Google a try....

Redirecting all pages from old URL to index page of new URL

Hello everybody..
I have an Apache configuration question, can't work out the procedure in Server Admin.
Basically I have a website at "oldurl.com". In Server Admin, I have the site set to serve a PHP file which runs a 301 redirect to "newurl.com". Works nicely.
Trouble is, if somebody requests "oldurl.com/somepage", the 301 redirect does not function.
I need all pages on "oldurl.com" to forward to the homepage of "newurl.com".
I suspect I need to type something into the "URL Aliases and Redirects" pane in Server admin, and some sort of wildcard, but I'm stumped. I have read about fiddling with the .htaccess file, but surely this is not necessary?
Hope you can help. Thank you!

To give a more detailed (and just possibly relevant) example of what koncept's talking about, suppose you wanted to redirect browsers from any page on the old domain to a corresponding page on the new domain (e.g. http://oldurl.com/this/that/theother.html would redirect to http://newurl.com/this/that/theother.html, rather than just http://newurl.com/). You'd make a rule in the oldurl.com site like this:
Type: RedirectMatch
Pattern: (.*)$
Path: http://newurl.com$1
The .* matches zero or more anythings, the $ matches the end of the url (to make sure we get the whole thing, not just part of it), and the parentheses capture the match so we can use it in the redirect path as $1. Note that the pattern is matched against the path part of the original url (i.e. "/this/that/theother.html" in the example I gave earlier), so we can just tack it onto the new domain name and we're set.

Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get - 404: Page not found This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-is the problem with iweb or with hosting? T

I am sorry if thie is republished-My first time doing this and I am not sure what goes where and where to hear feedback.
Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get -
404: Page not found
This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-
Troubleshooting suggestions:
Ensure the page you are linking to exists in the correct folder.
Check your file name for case sensitivity . Index.htm is not the same as index.htm!
Temporarily disable any rewrite rules by renaming your .htaccess file if it exists
is the problem with
iweb or with hosting?
One Apple tech started to fix Iweb and had to end session and the next said problem with hosting at Network Solutions as it published
to local folder. NWS has checked sttting a few times-
Any help would be extremely appreciated as trying to fix this for about five weeks
Thanks VG
<Email Edited by Host>

It's a really bad idea to post your email address - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove it. (Even though I've now noticed you mis-spelled it! - anyway, never post your address in a forum.)
You have a site here: http://virginiagordon.com/www.virginiagordon.com/WELCOME.html
If that's not the page you are having trouble with, what is that page's URL?

Making an entrance page and an index (home) page query?

Hi All,
I've not done anything this way before but for a uni web design and development assignment, I've to firstly design a website with all the theory and how it will all come together.
Therefore, I'm wanting mine to be a little different from the generic kind and whilst I'm basing my subject matter on Tigers and the several species of, I'm creating an entrance page in fireworks that is the following;
I'm planning on sectioning up and placing hotspots around the interior of the tiger body, this will enable viewers to select and go to set pages like "about" "tiger zone" "contact" and so on.
However, I still need a traditional-ish homepage but I'm unsure how to make it that whilst people come in via the entrance page ( as above and the main url) whenever they've left this page to go in to the main homepage, they don't return via any of the main sites navigation menu / links back to this entrance page, is this possible in anyway?
I'm trying to get my own head around this and I have spent a number of hours researching this issue but I cannot find any resource that is anything like what I'm needing to do.
Thanks as always people.
Regards,

Yes, 2nd landing page will be the 'traditional' homepage.
This case, the tiger page will have to be 'index.php' so it'll load when your site is entered in a browser. Why PHP - we'll get to that in a bit.
Let us use, lets say a cookie to see if the user has already been on your index.php (which is your tiger page). If they already have, they will be taken to index2.html (the 2nd homepage - which doesn't have to be php as we aren't using any cookies/ sessions here).
Something like this should work:
<?php
// please note there is a dot prefixed in '.yourdomain.com':
setcookie('homepage', 1, time() + 365*24*60*60, '/', '.yourdomain.com');
if(!empty($_COOKIE['homepage']))
   header('Location: http://yourdomain.com/another_page.html');
   exit;
// you could add more PHP code (if you require), but ensure this patch of code is right at the top of your tiger index page
?>
This should be placed at the very top of your tiger index page which is your initial homepage when users enter your site.
This is how it works:
homepage - the defined name for this cookie
1 - enables the cookie
time() - expiration value for the cookie. The value suffixed with 'time()' is for 1 year - meaning the cookie will remain active for 1 year. If you want it to exist until the browser is closed, set it 0 like this:
setcookie('homepage', 1, 0, '/', '.yourdomain.com');
The / next to time is the areas within your domain that the cookie is available for. / denotes higher most domain path. This is useful if your index.php file (main splash page) is located within the main domain root itself. If not, if it is located somewhere like yourdomain.com/tigerhome, set that to this:
setcookie('homepage', 1, time() + 365*24*60*60, '/tigerhome/', '.yourdomain.com');
Please notice the trailing and prefix slashes for the folder value
yourdomain.com - is the main value of your domain itself. Please note the prefixed dot [.] before the yourdomain.com.
How the header works:
   header('Location: http://yourdomain.com/another_page.html');
If the cookie called 'homepage' exists, then when the user is trying to load index.php, the header condition is read by the browser first. If it is true, the user is taken to another_page.html. If not, the user is allowed to continue viewing index.php page.
The reason we have this at the very top is because when the user attempts to load up index.php page, you dont want the content to be shown before redirect happens. Hence, the header condition along dependant on the cookie is first read by the browser.
If you want custom time setting - maybe 1 day, set it to this:
setcookie('homepage', 1, time() + 1*24*60*60, '/', '.yourdomain.com');
5 hours, this:
setcookie('homepage', 1, time() + 1*5*60*60, '/', '.yourdomain.com');
And so on...
Note: The cookie will expire if the user clears browser cookies manually!
But this is the basic way of getting a cookie set for getting what you want done.
Also, I've set up a test page on my domain for you - expires in 1 year from first visit. Loads on index.php and redirects to test2.html if the cookie is already set. Try it out for yourself here.
Trust this helps.
-ST

IWEB not generating an index page

Hi,
I've screwed something up on my site, so i had to erase the files etc in public_html now when i tried to republish the site there is no index page published what am i doing wrong?
There is no index page saved on a local folder publish either.
thanks
John

Move a page to the top of the list.
iWeb will create a new index.html file when published.
Check it.
Then move the page back to its original place.
Publish again and iWeb will create a new index.html file.
Check it.
If all this fails, create an index.html file yourself. Copy/paste the code below in a plaintext file and save it as index.html.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= Enter/Enter.html" />
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
Where it say Enter/Enter.html use your own Site- and filename.

Htaccess 404 and 301 redirect

I have a muse website hosted on windows azure.
I have created a .htaccess file and added o the root.
The webpage is still not redirecting to the 404 error page or my 301 redirect that i have set

Hi Kurian,
You can Go to Server Settings>>Settings>> Missing Template Handler and setup the same.
To use the missing template handler with IIS, the Custom Error page of your website must be configured to use the page. For this example, we'll assume a directory name of /errorpages and a file named missingtemplate.cfm. Therefore, the path to the missing template handler will be /errorpages/missingtemplate.cfm.
The steps below explain how to configure IIS to use the template for the Custom Error page:
1.          Right-click on the website in the IIS Management Console, then select Properties.
2.          Select the Custom Errors tab.
3.          Select the 404 in the HTTP Error column and click Edit Properties...
4.          Select URL from the Message type dropdown and enter /errors/missingtemplate.cfm in the URL text box.
5.          Click OK.
6.          Right-click on the website again and select Properties.
7.          Select the Home Directory tab and click the Configuration... button.
8.          Select .cfm from the list and click the Edit button.
9.          Check the "Check that file exists" checkbox.
10.          Restart IIS and the ColdFusion Server.
Regards,
Anit Kumar

My index page is not redirecting. I see index of / with redirect links

I am using A Small Orange and publishing directly from iWeb to a Small Orange. How can I resolve this issue? I am an absolute beginner so please assume I know nothing about creating a website! Thank you.
the page is www.ellowynbehring.com

It looks as if you have not uploaded your site to the root folder on your server?
What file there did you upload to? If you upload your whole site folder to your server, then you also need to upload the separate index file that iWeb produces on publishing and this needs to sit outside your site folder to point into the index file that is in the site folder.
What is probably best to do is to go into iWeb and select publish to a local folder and then your site folder and separate index file will be published to your desktop. Then download Cyberduck, which is a free and dedicated ftp client that you can use to upload your site to your server.
Open Cyberduck and connect to your server and you will then be able to see exactly where you are uploading to and what folder on your server you need to upload to.
Once you can see this, upload your site folder and then upload the separate index file, but it needs to sit outside your site folder pointing in towards it.

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