Redirecting from OSC to Monster Commerce

Redirecting links from OSCommerce to Monster Commerce

[AlwaysWorkin]

I'm about to go live with a new storefront with MonsterCommerce. I've been working with an OSC storefront for almost 2 years but felt it was time to start outsourcing my programming so I can focus more on sales.

Anyways, I've got some great results in the SERPs for my products and I'd hate to lose all of them. I'd like to redirect the links to the new MC store.

I am using the "search engine friendly URLs" in OSC. So for example, a product at:

www.someurl.com/product_info.php/products_id/152

And I'd like it to be redirected to:

www.someurl.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=152

I'm wondering if this is even possible since MC doesn't give you any access to your server.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[Corey Bryant]

You could redirect them on your server to MonsterCommerce.

You might check out:
[webmasterworld.com...]
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-Corey

[AlwaysWorkin]

Thanks Corey, the problem is they're the same domain so when I change the DNS everything will then be on MC...and they run microsoft servers.

[otc_cmnn]

Looks like you are in a pickle...

It is easy if you have access to the server, espially with apache and making some rewrites.

We are currently rewriting all of our OSC's installions urls to go to some fancy rewrites so I am with you here...

My reccomendation would be something like this:

There are only a half dozen or so core osc files that you need to worry about products_info.php, index.php and maybe some of the about/shipping etc files that you may have search ranking for and/or people have linked to.

So create a file on your new server called product_info.php and write some info into it to map the product id to your new MC product ID and use header location 301s to permanently redirect the page. This will catch any book marks, links etc.

Also make sure that you have a soft 404 so that any lost links etc will at least get to your site instead of the ugly default 404 page.

Sorry I don't have an easy answer for you...

[AlwaysWorkin]

Actually that brings up some ideas and what not along the lines you mentioned.

Thanks for the help.

[Corey Bryant]

A lot of Windows hosting companies offer ISAPI rewrite, which works the same as the mod-rewrite. Ask the support people if that is offered there

-Corey

[AlwaysWorkin]

MonsterCommerce doesn't support it. MC is a HUGE disappointment for SEO.