HTML 301 Redirect Windows Server

Greetings,

I recently changed domains from www.realestate-holland.com to www.lukebouman.com. I used a coldfusion 301 redirect to do this.

However, our home page extension changed from HTML to CFM.

http://www.lukebouman.com/index.html

http://www.lukebouman.com/index.cfm

How do I use a 301 redirect on the HTML file if we are on a windows server?

Thanks for any advice.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

Umm IMO this one should help you out:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

Either try out a redirect from the IIS, or try out from the scripts given on the same page..

 

Hey there,

Thanks for the help.

My client did most of his linking to www.lukebouman.com without the index.html so maybe the PR will get transferred to index.cfm because it has higher precedence on the coldfusion server.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

good for you

 

Dear Travis,

If you are using Google Sitemap tool and Yahoo sitemap tool, the url can be changed easily.

Try for permanent redirect 301 as explained

Thanks
S

 

you can use the codes below to create 301 redirect with asp or or asp.net

 

Hey there,

The only thing about ASP, is that the extension needs to be ASP, and I need to redirect an HTML page to CFM (coldfusion).

However, I am not sure I even need to do this because the PR may get transferred to the default extension if everything links to just the domain name without the home page index file extension.

I guess the only way to do it with pure HTML is through the IIS admin, and I doubt I would get access to that on a shared server.

Regardless, thanks everyone for the information.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

I use htaccess (on Linux) to totally remove the index page from the URL completely.

domain.com/index.html
domain.com/

Are technically the same exact page, but Google can see it as two pages. I prefer to redirect index.html to /.

Now I have no clue how to do this in non-Linux situations.

Brandon

 

This is what I use in .htaccess on my apache server:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]*/)*index\.html? [NC]
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*)index\.html?$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This addresses several canonicalization issues, including index.html and non-www versions.