301 - need another alternative for reindexing to new url

Now here's an example of what Domino is not so good at...

[pixie]

Manipulating the server response header!

I can change any entry in the server response header on a Domino server, EXCEPT the one line at the very top that returns status. That happens to be the only line I actually need to change - and it's not available to me. Story of my life!

I've hunted high and low for a solution but have come up empty (okay... maybe the apache plug-in could help me do this... but I don't think I have that choice - am checking into it though).

So... I'm wondering if there is any other way to get ourselves reindexed in Google under new URLs without sacrificing the PR's of our existing indexes? I'm faced with having to move a significant number of pages to another site - as well as an entire domain shift coming around the bend.

I can setup server-side redirects, but these return a 302 in the header and from what I'm able to gather on this forum... this is not a good thing and should be avoided. I can substitute portions of a URL - but doing this returns a 200 so as far as google is concerned I don't think it would acknowledge the new url and may be mistaken for duplicate content/spam.

So... hints... suggestions... is there anyone at Google I can talk to (I know... dumb question!).

Would greatly appreciate any insight/advice.

Thx.

[bakedjake]

If you're using the domino plugin for apache, just do it in your httpd.conf file.

[pixie]

We're not - and not sure if it's an option for us to install (this is what I'm checking on). Failing that - what else can I do?

[bakedjake]

Failing that - what else can I do?

:-/ ... That's the only way I know of to do a 301 redirect with Domino. AFAIK, Website Rule Documents will always throw a 302 for redirects.

[pixie]

I don't think we can use the apache plugin - we're running Domino on a Windows 2000 box - at least according to Admin this is not an option.

Is there a third party tool available that could do resolve this?

[Receptional]

I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of domino, but presumably you have control over your 404 page? If so, we have in the past used the 404 page to run a mapping asp file that returns 301 redirects for all known changed pages before returning a 404 for pages not in the list.

Bet domino works different - nothing is ever easy in this life.