I am switching domains and want to create a page that will direct people coming from search engine and/or bookmarked pages to be informed that the pages has been moved and then offered a link to the new location of the page. I am looking for a way to display an altered referer link. The folder structure is the same on the new site so all that needs to be changed is the hostname.

Why not keep the old site's index page and use a META refresh to reload with the new page after say 2 seconds? Google how it's done.

A search engine friendly way of doing this would be to use an Apache redirect. Visitors will not be shown a link, but taken directly to the new website. Check out this url for info: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect This method will redirect any requests to your new domain.

wait... you should make some indication that they are being redirected unless you want to keep that old index page. as soon as you stop getting a lot of hits on your old index page, get rid of it, because it'll get rid of itself soon enough anyway. FBI_Agent