301Redirect Help

I'm really frustrated trying to figure out how to use a 301Redirect. I'd really appreciate it is someone could walk me through this as Godaddy has been unhelpful.

I am trying to Redirect http://internationaladoptionstories.com to http://www.internationaladoptionstories.com


I have an ASP Hosting package (which I assume means I need to use .asp code)

Godaddy offers this article that includes the code for the redirect, but I don't know how to use it.

http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=234&topic_id=&&

The .asp code they offer is:

<%
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.newdomain.com/newpage.html"
Response.End
%>

My question is about the .htm extension of my pages. How does this translate to .asp?

Thank you for your help. I'm trying to learn this so that I can SEO some page names and think the home page is a good place to start.

john

 

this will require IIS document mapping, which i think your host will not allow

 

Take a look at this thread. I was having the same issue, but I found out that my hosting provider do not allow .htaccess, which I think that's what you are using. here are several sources i found to be helpful: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=90587

http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm
http://www.website-development-training.com/301/


I hope this help; it was a learning experience for me.

 

Thanks for the tips and I think you might be right. Godaddy won't support the .htaccess file.

I've read through tons of pages about 301s, including the suggested sites, but they all seem to point to .htaccess files.

There's got to be another way if I can't access the file and I don't want to use a script.

Any more ideas?

I appreciate you taking the time to offer advice.

 

There might be, user lars suggested using php, here is his comments, but I have not looked into that yet:
I think a php redirect like:

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
exit;
?>
would work.
You could read more at http://php.net/header

 

windows servers don't use htaccess the same way Apache does. This code looks like it goes into the 'original filename' instead of a central htaccess-type file. Windows servers use a commercial software called isapi-rewrite which needs to be installed on the server by GoDaddy.

I'm not an expert on IIS or ASP or any other Windoze technology... I just know enough to use Apache and PHP instead