301 Redirects

How do I do a 301 redirect on the same host

[Alan_G]

I have a '.com' and a '.co.uk' TLD pointing to the same IP address on my hosting company's server. Both TLDs work but I realise now, that this is considered duplicate content by Google and that I should use a 301 redirect. But I'm unsure what I have to do. I'm assuming I should create a 'dummy' site for one of them, and then just place 1 page on it that redirects to the other site. Does that seem reasonable?

If so, my concern is, what happens to bookmarks that point directly onto a page within the redirected website? Will they be lost? If they are, do I have to mirror the entire site and have every page being redirected to the corresponding page on the genuine site?

I'm using ASP.NET and so there is no .htaccess file to help with this.

thanks

[Laker]

Is this a continuation or your earlier post (including other spliced posts) -- or am I missing something?

<http://www.webmasterworld.com/domain_names/3688590.htm>

[Alan_G]

It is a continuation. The other posts answered by question about needing to do 301 redirects. I'm now trying to get my head around how to implement it without b*gg*r*ng everything up.

thanks

[Webwork]

Apache/Linux or Windows Server?

[Alan_G]

Windows and so no .htaccess to help!

[bwnbwn]

I assume they are the same site so here is what you do.
In IIS open websites
right click the folder of the website your wanting to redirect select properities, then select home directory, check redirect enter the complete url here do not add the / url will look like this http: //www example com then select permanent redirect and hit apply.
Check doman redirect and header to make sure it is a 301 and all the folders should redirect to the correct folder.
check them as well and your done.
IIS is easy once ya get the hang of it.
All the bookmarks will be fine and redirect to the correct url they are bookmarked for

[Lightguy1]

You can do redirects with Helicons Asapi redirect module. I would check that out.

[Alan_G]

Thanks for all the tips. I'm on a shared host with very little access to IIS and so I ended up doing it with code in the ASP.NET app.

[g1smd]

Make sure that you have catered for both www and non-www for both domains.

You likely have FOUR combinations that can access your site, and three need to redirect.

[aaronjf]

On the same topic... how would you go about redirecting a page that does not exist anymore and had a dynamic ULR to begin with.

IE www.somedomainname.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.240/.f

I redirecting when the page is present seems easy enough, but I have no clue how to do it to this URL.

[g1smd]

Redirecting simply redirects a URL request to a different URL.

The original URL doesn't have to have had a page returned for that old request, and it will not return a page at the old URL once the redirect is in place.

There will need to be a page returned at the new URL though.

[aaronjf]

Redirecting simply redirects a URL request to a different URL.

The original URL doesn't have to have had a page returned for that old request, and it will not return a page at the old URL once the redirect is in place.

There will need to be a page returned at the new URL though.

I understand the the concept of redirecting fully. My issue is exactly how do I do a redirect within IIS for a URL that no longer has a page. Everything I found requires there to be a page, then opening the properties of that page, etc etc etc.

[g1smd]

By "page", do they mean "file", or "URL"? They are two different things.

On the web, "page" doesn't really have a definition.

[aaronjf]

in the context of this discusstion I mean URL. I need to redirect one dynamically generated URL to another dynamically gemerated URL. More clear?

[aaronjf]

Anybody?

[g1smd]

URLs that are indexed, are those followed from links on pages, so make sure that those links have the correct URL for the content.

I am not sure what you mean by redirect one dynamically generated URL to another dynamically generated URL.

You can only generate a URL once. Your own site should no longer refer to old URLs in any internal links within the site.

Do you mean redirect external requests for a URL that no longer exists to one that now does?

Is there a simple one-to-one mapping of the old and new URLs?

[Receptional Andy]

aaronjf: I don't believe it is possible to do what you want to do within a default IIS installation. There are third party rewriting components that would make such tasks much easier.

Otherwise, IMO this is a development problem, rather than a server administration one. Your developers need to capture the query string within your pages and redirect ones that have moved elsewhere.

[aaronjf]

aaronjf: I don't believe it is possible to do what you want to do within a default IIS installation. There are third party rewriting components that would make such tasks much easier.

Otherwise, IMO this is a development problem, rather than a server administration one. Your developers need to capture the query string within your pages and redirect ones that have moved elsewhere.

Nuts... I was able to do this on Apache no problem.

Receptional Andy: What is the third party solution?

[Receptional Andy]

I believe some of the IIS guys swear by IIS Rewrite, which I think is a reasonable approximation of mod_rewrite. It's been a while since I had to do rewriting on IIS. I would do a bit of research on what's out there prior to installing any ISAPI filters though.

Of course, any non-standard install has an impact on portability.

[edited by: Receptional_Andy at 11:11 pm (utc) on July 30, 2008]