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Nate 143 posts 184 karma points

Jan 17, 2011 @ 03:14

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Redirect www.mywebsite.com/index.htm

I built a new website for someone and I want to put in a 301 for their old hompage which is at /index.htm.

I tried it through the 301 package and the rewriteurl.config but I'm getting a 404 through IIS 7. I think it's because IIS is trying to find the htm page before it lands to umbraco.

I'm on softsys shared hosting. How do I fix this?

Thanks!

Nate

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Nate 143 posts 184 karma points

Jan 17, 2011 @ 20:09

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Figured it out. Added an index.htm page to my site with the following in it. If someone can reply and confirm that this is correct I will mark them as answered.

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Location: http://www.newwebsite.com<html>;

<head>

<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>

<meta

http-equiv="Refresh"

content="0; url=http://www.newwebsite.com">

</head>

<body>

<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>

<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.newwebsite.com">here</a> .</p>

</body>

</html>

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Jan 17, 2011 @ 20:37
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Meta refresh is a discouraged method for redirecting, breaks back-button, not a 301 redirect, etc... Something like this in your UrlRewriting.config file would be better (NOTE: not 100% sure how this will work on the SoftSys environment, their tech support is helpful though):
```
<add name="some_name"
               redirect="Domain"
               ignoreCase="true" rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
               virtualUrl="/index.htm"
               redirectMode="Permanent"
               destinationUrl="/pathToYourDesiredPage" />
```
-Amir
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Nate 143 posts 184 karma points

Jan 17, 2011 @ 20:48

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I have that in my URLrewrite config, but IIS serves up a 404 before it reaches umbraco. That's my original question.

If I have

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.newwebsite.com

at the top of my HTML redirect page, will that do the 301?

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Amir Khan 1287 posts 2744 karma points

Jan 17, 2011 @ 21:03

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I don't think so...Are you getting a 301 header with that method?

You may have to adjust a setting in IIS to tell .NET to handle the .html file depending on which version of .NET and web.config you are using. I believe if you're using .NET 4.0 Integrated Pipeline and the correct config files you don't have to modify IIS though.

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