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Redirect HTML pages

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Redirect web pages is common practice and often done with the meta tag refresh, but there are drawbacks and it is not recommended by the W3C. Using a HTTP redirection status code is preferred, but often simply not practical.
If you have a page http://oldsite.com/project/index.html and you need a redirect to http://mysite.com/project/, you simply place this index.html in http://oldsite.com/project/. In case JavaScript is disabled, the default meta refresh is used as a default:

index.html

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; URL=http://mysite.com/project/" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        window.location.href = "http://mysite.com/project/"
    </script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>