I've spent hours searching for the answer to this. I think I'm missing the forest for the trees, so please help if possible: I'm taking down an old site that duplicated one with a good domain name on a good server, and I want to set up 301 redirects for each old page. The old site was a freebie with an ISP, and has very limited features. I can use cgi with perl, but not .htaccess files, php, or server side includes. I uploaded a script to the cgi folder and it does work - it redirects to the new domain. My question is, how do I get this script to execute when a visitor goes to oldsite.com/index.html? I see how creating a form would let the submit button trigger the script, but surely there's a way to do it so the visitor doesn't have to click anything?

The files on this old site must be .htm or .html. No SSI, php, or .htaccess. Right now I've got meta redirects with the timing set to 0 and page titles "301 Moved Permanently" in the hope that search engines won't be too upset.

[edited by: Masayo at 6:13 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2008]