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We released our updated Web site for public access yesterday. Some of our users had reported that they were still seeing the old homepage when they clicked on the site address www.domainname.com. But they were able to get to the new homepage if they entered the complete URL like this -- www.domainname.com/new-default.html

Before yesterday, I had this file 'april2007.html' as the default document with the highest rank. But I did remove it from the default documents list and added 'new-default.html' to the top of default documents list yesterday before I informed our users about the release of our updated site.

I know that if those users, who still received the old page yesterday, could have gotten the new page if they had hit the 'Refresh' button on their browsers. But is there a better way to handle this kind of scenario? Since many users may not aware of this (i.e. browser cache is serving the old page), they may decide that something was wrong with the site, which is not good for our business.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
PK

 

Using ASP or ASP.NET you can create a default page that will redirect to any page you want.
You could for example find everyone looking for your old default page and redirect them to the new one.