Thanks, Matt, for your quick response and your suggestion for the redirect code.

A search in the forum turned up

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/using/ui-questions/5255-301-redirect-options

which might help me figure that out.

Have a great day!

Heather

Hmm... This is proving more challenging than I expected...

My RegEx skills are not the best, and I am wondering how I can make this work for all my current pages without hosing the whole site...

My first attempt is this:

    
        redirectMode="Permanent"
        redirect="Application"
        ignoreCase="true" 
        rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
        virtualUrl="~\/*()\.aspx"
        destinationUrl="$1" />

"\/*()\.aspx" matches all the pages in the site, though, including "/umbraco/" and other "reserved" dirs.

Does anyone know how to write the regex properly?

Thanks!

Heather

Hi,

I think it would be something like this:

   <add name="addWWWtoURL"
         virtualUrl="(.*)://sitename.co.nz/(.*).aspx"
         rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
         destinationUrl="$1://www.sitename.co.nz/$2"
         ignoreCase="true"
         redirect="Domain"
         redirectMode="Permanent" />

Hi Heather,

I reckon something like this should do the trick

   <add name="toExtensionless"
         virtualUrl="^~/(.*).aspx(.*)"
         rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
         destinationUrl="~/$1/$2"
         ignoreCase="true"
         redirect="Application"
         redirectMode="Permanent" />

Matt

Hi Heather,

that's indeed a bit tricky, I came up with the following regex:

virtualUrl="^\/(?!(umbraco\/|data\/))(?<url>.*)\.aspx"

And then

destinationUrl="${url}"

(Or do not use the named reference ?<url> and use $2 here.)

So basically take everything that starts at the root of the website with a '/', ends in '.aspx' and doesn't start after the slash with 'umbraco/' or 'data/' etc. Obviously you can get more specific but that should do the trick.

Hope it works,

Sascha

Thanks to everyone for your replies. It looks like Sascha's is the closest to what I need, but when I used it with your named reference, there was an error message:

Parser Error Message: '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character. Line 40, position 90.

So, I made some changes... and have this:

<add name="301RedirectDirUrls"
        redirectMode="Permanent"
        redirect="Application"
        ignoreCase="true" 
        rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
        virtualUrl="^\/(?!(umbraco\/|data\/|install\/|usercontrols\/|umbraco_client\/))(.*)\.aspx"
        destinationUrl="$1/$2" />

Which seems to do the redirecting properly now. (Yay!)

Now what I'd like to know is how can I verify that this is sending the proper "Permanent Redirect" message to Google? In another threa someone mentioned using Firebug to check, but I can't see where that information would be displayed.

Does anyone know how I can test this?

~Heather

The easiest way to test this has always been Fiddler for me, it has a huge amount of information and it can look a bit daunting at first, but it's such a great and powerful tool.

Hey Heather,

As sebastiaan says, Fiddler is a good free option, or if you don't mind a small charge you could also try Charles. Both pretty much do the same though.

Matt

I think you can also check this with Firebug, in the .Net tab: all connections made are listed and the status as well.

+1 for Fiddler though as well, awesome tool. :)

Thanks everyone!

I found the "status" under the .Net tab in Firebug as Sascha suggested (had to click "All") and it said "301 Moved Permanently"

Success!

~Heather

I added a wiki page with this for anyone who might want to do the same thing:

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/how-to-switch-your-site-to-usedirectoryurls=true-when-it-was-previously-=false

~Heather

Awesome,

Great work.

Matt

This is exactly what I have been looking for - found it at last! Thank you Matt - and Heather for the wiki entry. When I initially tried this I had redirect set to "domain", which stopped this working, took me a while to spot the difference... doh

Thanks again!

Dan

Always glad to help, Dan - and welcome to the community!

~Heather

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