Setting up a 301 redirect for individual pages on IIS

Hi knowledgable people,

I've inherited a site running on Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 and am
changing a few pages around.

What I want to do is redirect users and search engines from a page
like

http://www.thenameofmysite.com/old/directory/features.html

to

http://www.thenameofmysite.com/features/index.html

I've seen it recommended that I use a 301 permanent redirect. I've
also seen the following ASP code to carry out the redirect.

<%
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.addheader "Location", "http://www.yourdomain.com/newpageurl/"
Response.End
%>

Now I've never used ASP before coming from a javascript/perl
background. So my initial reaction was to create a page called
text.html and put the script into it. Unsprisingly it didnt work.
There are no .asp pages on the site and there is a custom 404 page set
up I don't want to touch.

Could someone point me in the right direction. I've just goine through
the documentation if IIS and can't appear to find the answer.

Cheers

Stew Dean

Kristofer
Mon Nov 17 05:42:03 CST 2003

Hello,

You can do this using IIS instead of writing code (the old page is a html
page, and you need an asp page to execute code, so that is really going to
be difficult).

In IIS Manager, right click the file/folder and click Properties.
Click on the Directory tab.
Change to "A redirection to a URL"
Check none or more check boxes (depending on what you want to do) in the
"The client will be sent to..." section.

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"stew dean" <stewart@webslave.dircon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi knowledgable people,
>
> I've inherited a site running on Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 and am
> changing a few pages around.
>
> What I want to do is redirect users and search engines from a page
> like
>
> http://www.thenameofmysite.com/old/directory/features.html
>
> to
>
> http://www.thenameofmysite.com/features/index.html
>
> I've seen it recommended that I use a 301 permanent redirect. I've
> also seen the following ASP code to carry out the redirect.
>
> <%
> Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
> Response.addheader "Location", "http://www.yourdomain.com/newpageurl/"
> Response.End
> %>
>
> Now I've never used ASP before coming from a javascript/perl
> background. So my initial reaction was to create a page called
> text.html and put the script into it. Unsprisingly it didnt work.
> There are no .asp pages on the site and there is a custom 404 page set
> up I don't want to touch.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction. I've just goine through
> the documentation if IIS and can't appear to find the answer.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stew Dean