Shutting down my site tonight

[melbo]

I have a 1000 member forum and main site that gets 10,000 unique visits a day.
www.survivalmonkey.com

I'm closing it all for 24 hours and redirecting to this:
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/view.php?pg=ronpaul

Wouldn't it be cool everywhere you tried to go on the net tonight sent you to RP screens?

[0zzy]

Too cool! We love you! Freedom lover!

[fedup100]

WOW!!

[Ruby Justice]

It's not too late to spread this GREAT idea..

I just sent a "plea" to 2 of my favorite websites that support Ron Paul. Thanks.

This thread is worth blimping tonight.

[ronpaulitician]

Excellent!

[defcreative]

Uh oh!

I'm getting a "not redirecting properly" problem on Mozilla Firefox.

You are probably playing with the code.

[ursamajor]

Here here! Let's do it!

[curiousobserver]

I have a 1000 member forum and main site that gets 10,000 unique visits a day.
www.survivalmonkey.com

I'm closing it all for 24 hours and redirecting to this:
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/view.php?pg=ronpaul

Wouldn't it be cool everywhere you tried to go on the net tonight sent you to RP screens?

Thanks for doing this!!

[thehighwaymanq]

GREAT!

Thanks!

[1913_to_2008]

Thank you. It will no doubt get more supporters for the doctor.

[melbo]

I was playing with the code. needed to figure it out now before 12.

My forum people will be able to get around with any link other than the main page.

www.survivalmonkey.com/forum

I thought of this a few weeks ago but didn't think of talking to other webmasters about it. not too late I suppose. Off to hang a few more covert banners....

have fun!!

[xexkxex]

Awesome. You da man!

[Bryan]

Sweet! Great design! :D:)

[torchbearer]

man, everyone in this revolution is awesome... just think about how our country would be as a truly free society under President Paul... there would be peace and charity. Good Will to all people.

[VicVixvi]

Great idea. Too bad we can't redirect CNN, Ebay, Yahoo and Google lol.

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[jordie]

What a totally awesome idea! I was trying think of someway I could help.

I have a website "Funny Jokes". I've put up the Ron Paul tea Party banner on every page. :D

http://www.funny-jokes.net/

I've then put the flash 12 million counter on the pictures pages as that gets most hits:

http://www.funny-jokes.net/funny-pictures/

I get a couple thousand visitors every day, so this will be good for reaching out to people we might not normally get...

[jordie]

I was playing with the code. needed to figure it out now before 12.

My forum people will be able to get around with any link other than the main page.

www.survivalmonkey.com/forum

I thought of this a few weeks ago but didn't think of talking to other webmasters about it. not too late I suppose. Off to hang a few more covert banners....

have fun!!

Just need a .htaccess with some rewrite rules, or change the index file for the forums to redirect.... I can help you out if you need it.

[LRW]

I have a web site with 8,000 members and although I cannot shut it down for the day, I have removed my usual giant Google ad in the corner and replaced it with the "Land of the Free" YouTube video and have asked all users to please view it. It's not much but it's something to help the cause.

[jordie]

I have a web site with 8,000 members and although I cannot shut it down for the day, I have removed my usual giant Google ad in the corner and replaced it with the "Land of the Free" YouTube video and have asked all users to please view it. It's not much but it's something to help the cause.

This is how I placed the Ron Paul banners too. Its a great idea!

If anyone here with a website can take down your normal ads/adsense and put up Tea Party banners, the donation counter or a video like LRW we can get the word out even more! Its not hard to do, and its only 1 day of adsense revenue... Think of the $ loss as a donation to Ron Paul.:cool:

[CelestialRender]

Awesome! Dedication ftw.

[BiPolarBear]

Great idea! Excellent work!

[Pete Kay]

Man I love all you guys! Ron Paul supporters are the best people in the world!

[jordie]

bump.... If this inspired me, it'll inspire others. *anyone* with a site, put some links up, banners, something! It doesn't matter if you site is unrelated, hell, it would probably be better if it wasn't related! Get some new visitors!

[ARhoginNH]

I have a 1000 member forum and main site that gets 10,000 unique visits a day.
www.survivalmonkey.com

I'm closing it all for 24 hours and redirecting to this:
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/view.php?pg=ronpaul

Wouldn't it be cool everywhere you tried to go on the net tonight sent you to RP screens?


YOU ROCK !!!

[Perry]

I have a 1000 member forum and main site that gets 10,000 unique visits a day.
www.survivalmonkey.com

I'm closing it all for 24 hours and redirecting to this:
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/view.php?pg=ronpaul

Wouldn't it be cool everywhere you tried to go on the net tonight sent you to RP screens?

Somebody buy this guy a beer!:):)

[PathIveMade]

I took mine down too and put the thermometer on the index page and a direct link to the donation page at RonPaul2008.com... we don't get near that amount of traffic... but every bit helps!

[parocks]

Here's what I did with one of mine

http://parocks.com

I just made a new mainpage (Ron Paul) with a link to the old mainpage.

[QuesoPantera]

I call for sticky immediately!

[James4Ron2008]

There is more information on how to EASILY do this on any website at this thread here (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=46165), including easy to use javascript forwarders. Enjoy!

[RobS]

So, what is your site about? survivalmonkeys.com... my imagination is running wild lol

[angrydragon]

woot!

[Battlecruiser]

Great job. You're the man.

[James4Ron2008]

Also, here is another really easy way to do this if you have a website you want to forward...

1) Create a text file on your hard drive.
2) Copy/paste the following code into the text file...


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate [R,L]

3) Save the text file as "new.htaccess"
4) Login to your website via ftp
5) Navigate to the root folder of your website (where your actual site files reside)
6) Look for a file named ".htaccess" - If it exists, rename it to "backup.htaccess", if not, don't worry about it
7) Upload the "new.htaccess" file you created to the root folder of your website
8) Rename the file to ".htaccess"
9) Your site should forward now, site-wide, not just the main page


When you want to restore your website to normal, simply...

1) Delete the ".htaccess" file we created.
2) If you renamed your old ".htaccess" file to "backup.htaccess", rename it back to ".htaccess"

[melbo]

So, what is your site about? survivalmonkeys.com... my imagination is running wild lol

survivalmonkey is a pretty active survival and preparedness site. We talk about the kinds of things that will happen if Ron Paul is not elected and the Dollar/economy/etc tanks.

You all are welcome to check it out in another 17 hours... right now it all RP... My email box is swimming with 'I can't get to the site' questions right now. Tis ok.

I really wish I would have posted this idea earlier as we could have all re-directed our sites to a TeaParty page. I'm going to post a thread on Monday asking if anyone donated because of my hijinks.. I'm going to match that amount.

[melbo]

LOL. I'd take that beer! I'm out

[melbo]

that htaccess tutorial is great but. I have the redirected RP page on the same directory. I found that out after cPanel allowed me to rd all wildcards. It created a loop.

My main entry pages are enough right now.

[sirachman]

rock on! for the rEVOLution!! Go Tea Party! Go President PAUL!!!