http-status-code-410

We have a client that is closing its doors. We want to redirect all traffic that goes to their domain to a new page index.html with a few images in the _img subdirectory. (The page explains what happened, what current customers can expect with their current orders, etc.) I've read about possibly using HTTP 410 Gone as the best way to technically explain to bots, etc. that the site is not there, isn't coming back and isn't providing a forwarding address. What would be the best way to do this in an .htaccess file, and direct users to the new index.html? You can use mod_rewrite for this.

These days I noticed that Youtube API which I'm using on my project is no longer available, e.g. https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/dLEk9yiXVQs?v=2 returns HTTP 410 response code which means that requested resource is no longer available and will not be available again. What should I use instead? cssko If I'm understanding your question correctly then you should be using https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=<video_id>&key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&part=snippet from now on. Google shutdown the old API effective April 20th, 2015. Take a look at the newest v3 API getting started . You can