Redirecting a website URL to a Google doc

April 26, 2014 10:34 AM

Our organization uses a Google form to sign up new members. I want to set up our website so that www.OurURL.org/join redirects to that Google doc. Is this possible? What is this functionality called? How do you go about setting it up?
posted by ottereroticist to Technology (5 answers total)

Does the URL need to stay as that while they're filling it out? If so, you'll want some kind of embed. If not, a simple HTML redirect on an empty page would work.
posted by supercres at 10:37 AM on April 26, 2014

How to redirect from an HTML page
posted by alex1965 at 10:40 AM on April 26, 2014

Check out this page for embedding info. Just copy / paste the code to your join.htm page. Read all the comments because there is some important info about permission settings so everyone can view the form.
posted by davidvanb at 10:42 AM on April 26, 2014

301 server redirect?
posted by KokuRyu at 11:21 AM on April 26, 2014 [1 favorite]

What kind of webserver do you have (you would get this from whomever hosts or administers your website). Possible answers include Apache, nginx, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

A server side redirect is most appropriate for this task, but it's accomplished in different ways depending on the server.
posted by artlung at 5:31 PM on April 26, 2014