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IIS and rewrites

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by sarahk, Oct 5, 2007.

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    I have a client with 2 parts to their website. I do all of one part and act as the middleman for the second part.

    Now, the website I don't run is on IIS with ASP and we've had users mistype the urls for instance they'll enter

    http://mysite.com instead of http://www.mysite.com
    and
    http://www.mytown.mysite.com instead of http://mytown.mysite.com

    This is a 15 minute job to fix on a LAMP system but I accepted a 90 minute quote from the company... anything for peace.

    Well, 3 weeks later they are saying the job is done but...

    In the first example it only works with IE and not with firefox and it's a 302 and not a 301 redirect

    The second instance doesn't work at all.

    I've never heard of a rewrite being browser dependant - the reason given was that different browsers give different server headers. Well, sure they do, but the only header that matters is the requested url!

    Am I being unreasonable - is IIS really such a pig to work with?
    Any pointers I should be giving these guys?
     
    sarahk, Oct 5, 2007 IP
  2. xoise

    xoise Active Member

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    There's a couple of ways to do this.

    You could grab the host header via ASP, like:
    <%
strHost = Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")

' Redirect if no www
If InStr(strHost, "www") = 0 Then
     Response.Clear()
     Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
     Response.Redirect("http://www.newsite.com/")
End If
%>
    Code (markup):
    That method is by far easier. However, you could look into ISAPI_Rewrite for IIS, which even has a free light version that will turn a .conf file in your root into a file which acts similar to .htaccess in Apache.
     
    xoise, Oct 5, 2007 IP
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  3. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Thanks - I'll email them that sample.
     
    sarahk, Oct 5, 2007 IP
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    xoise Active Member

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    No problem.
     
    xoise, Oct 5, 2007 IP
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    solar44 Well-Known Member

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    have you installed isapi rewrite on the windows server? Lite edition should do, unless you want to use genuine htacces files under windows, than you should consider the pro edition.
     
    solar44, Oct 8, 2007 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    They've got it working but throwing 302 so I've gone back and asked for 301's yet again.

    I don't have access to the server so I can't make changes myself.

     
    sarahk, Oct 9, 2007 IP