301 redirect question?

[av8erab]

I am still trying to figure this one out.

My site shows up for the non www and the www.

When I check site: my site the two have a different numbers of pages in the search engines.

I want to redirect to the www site.

My hosting service told me that they have both the non and the www. at the DNS level redirecting to the same IP address.

They also told me to learn some asp to figure it out.

If anyone has a idea please make it simple step by step. It sounds like I just need to put a little code in a file.

Thanks

[bill]

It sounds like you have an IIS server, correct? If so my first advice to you would be to check through some of the threads here as we've had quite a few about 301 redirects for IIS [google.com].

[av8erab]

I believe you are correct on the IIS server.

I have really been looking around the internet a lot and I have not found a clear cut example.

I am using Frontpage 2003 and I found some advice recommending not using FP extensions and creating a htaccess file with the standard few lines of code.

Any ideas on this?

[av8erab]

They are telling me that it is being redirected at the DNS level and that there is no problem?

[bill]

You can't use an .htaccess file on an IIS server.

Normally you need to be able to access the IIS Manager on your hosting account to mess around with redirects. Another option would be to install something like ISAPI_Rewrite.

Have you checked the threads I linked to above?

[av8erab]

I looked at the links and still don't have the answer. The hosting service is of no help and they say there is no problem.

Based on all that I have read, if both www and non www show up when I type them in a browser then I need to redirect.

The web site is in Frontpage and just html.

Do I need to think about moving this site and not using Frontpage extensions to fix this? Is it worth this much work?

Thanks

[webtress]

I too need to do the same thing for a FP ASP site on a windows server and the hosting company said the same thing but also that I needed to add scripting to the pages pointing them to where they need to re-direct. Looks like this is the one. [webmasterworld.com...] - see last post for asp script.

[bill]

This is a server issue. It doesn't matter if you have FrontPage or SharePoint or other extensions installed. The redirection settings are on the server level for IIS.

The link provided in msg #:13 of this thread: IIS 5.0 and 301 redirection [webmasterworld.com] will work.

[seofan]

Are there any specific 301 redirect instructions for .NET server?

[webtress]

I agree completely this is a server issue however some host just won't comply with the request to set it in the IIS Manager, and it is those cases we need another solution (or another host ;)).