mod_rewrite but for IIS?

**RFH Customer: Reactivate** · 28th January 2006, 04:56 PM

No idea what the correctly terminology is as I usually deal with Unix hosts, but is there such a feature available on RF hosting packages?

Reason I ask is I want anyone visiting my "domain.com" redirected to "www.domain.com"

Example:
http://domain.com/dir/page.asp would redirect to:
http://www.domain.com/dir/page.asp

If there isn't such a feature on the server, I have come across this which seems to be free:

http://www.iismods.com/url-rewrite/index.htm

Would this be something RF would consider installing?

**RFH Customer: Ourpcman** · 28th January 2006, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Reactivate

No idea what the correctly terminology is as I usually deal with Unix hosts, but is there such a feature available on RF hosting packages?

Reason I ask is I want anyone visiting my "domain.com" redirected to "www.domain.com"

Example:
http://domain.com/dir/page.asp would redirect to:
http://www.domain.com/dir/page.asp

Well, I think my main web site (here at RFH) does that anyway!
Try http://ourpcman.com (or .co.uk or .biz or .net)

**CS New Media** · 28th January 2006, 05:13 PM

It should do that anyway, just use domain aliases.

**RFH Customer: TonesUniverse.com** · 28th January 2006, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by Ourpcman

Well, I think my main web site (here at RFH) does that anyway!
Try http://ourpcman.com (or .co.uk or .biz or .net)

all my sites work without the www. as well

**RFH Customer: Reactivate** · 29th January 2006, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Ourpcman

Well, I think my main web site (here at RFH) does that anyway!
Try http://ourpcman.com (or .co.uk or .biz or .net)

When I visit http://ourpcman.com thats exactly what I get, I want it redirected to http://www.ourpcman.com for example.

Otherwise Google et al will penalise me for having duplicate content on two websites as it treats them both seperately.

**RFH Customer: TonesUniverse.com** · 29th January 2006, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Reactivate

When I visit http://ourpcman.com thats exactly what I get, I want it redirected to http://www.ourpcman.com for example.

Otherwise Google et al will penalise me for having duplicate content on two websites as it treats them both seperately.

aaah right that makes more sense now.

**RFH Reseller: Sol** · 29th January 2006, 08:07 PM

If you are really concerned about Google penalizing you. You would need to create a script for the default page that checks the URL entered, if it starts with a WWW then it's ok, go ahead and proceed, if not then redirect to the new site. An easy way of doing this is to use a non-standard default document and then just have a default document that does the redirection.

An easy redirection would be the following ASP code:

Code:

<% Response.Redirect("http://www.somedomain.tld") %>

A better edirection would be to write out 302 Permenantly Moved Headers.

Hope this makes sense.

**RFH Customer: Reactivate** · 30th January 2006, 12:24 AM

Cheers for the advice Sol, wrote it, banged my head on the table, re-wrote it and added into global.asa so I don't have to edit a billion pages.

Also, I used a 301 redirect as 302 is temporary iirc

It's working well, as you can see:

http://alltrampolines.com

**RFH Reseller: Sol** · 30th January 2006, 12:39 AM

Glad it worked out, and thanks for correcting me on the 301 / 302 code.

**RFH Customer: Ourpcman** · 30th January 2006, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by Reactivate

Cheers for the advice Sol, wrote it, banged my head on the table, re-wrote it and added into global.asa so I don't have to edit a billion pages.

Also, I used a 301 redirect as 302 is temporary iirc

It's working well, as you can see:

http://alltrampolines.com

Er, are you sure?

I'm not sure I totally get my head around this, but I THINK what you're saying is:
1. You have one site, which responds with or without www before the name. Fine. Mine do that too, but I want that.
2. The response shows the name requested in the browser as usual. You think Google doesn't like this as it considers this to be 2 sites (with and without www) with the same content. Personally I would think the people at Google would have figured that out and allowed for it, but maybe you have good reason?
3. You have written some code that identifies the original URL requested and redirects to the same index page whether there's a www or not. A www appears in the users browser, and you presume Google is happier.

I just tried going to your site and my experience was inconsitent without a www. I always got the same page content but sometimes I saw the www index page sometimes just the URL I typed (plus / at the end). Maybe it's down to caching?