Depts

Dept wanted a URL that was associated with the dept site and simpler than the actual conference url on the conferences site
(http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/WCPA/wcpa2012)

so I created a simple setup in
http://web.uvic.ca/philosophy/wcpa
to redirect to the conference site

I put in an index.htm file with a redirect.
I also created a .htaccess file to catch any other URLs within that folder and redirect them to the home page on the conference site

ErrorDocument 404 http://conferences.uvic.ca/index.php/WCPA/wcpa2012

There is about a half-second lag while the redirect occurs, but I don't think that is long enough to bother your users.