301 redirect - index.asp to domain root

[tamecrow]

Hi all,

Our site has been having a bit of trouble recently, and something has just occurred to me. Although we have http://domain.com redirected to http://www.domain.com, we don't have http://www.domain.com/index.asp redirected to http://www.domain.com.

Now, putting a simple ASP redirect on index.asp, similar to the following...

If LCASE(Left(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST"),4)) <> "www." then
    Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
    Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.domain.com"
    Response.End
End If

... will just put the server into an infinite loop. Basically, is there any way to create an SEO-safe ASP redirect from the index file to domain root? Although I hate to state the obvious, I feel we could have some dupe content issues here.

[incrediblehelp]

First question is:

Does your website link to http://www.domain.com/index.asp anywhere? If so stop doing that now and make sure all links point to http://www.domain.com/

[tamecrow]

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

First question is:

Does your website link to http://www.domain.com/index.asp anywhere? If so stop doing that now and make sure all links point to http://www.domain.com/

Not that I'm aware of. Anywhere that does, has been changed to point at the domain root in recent months. The site is quite large, and we've checked the usual places (header/menu includes - pages that we know link back directly to the front page) and all seems to be OK. Will keep an extra large eye out for this, though.

Does anyone know of a way to perform this kind of redirect in ASP? That would be a good blanket precaution for us.

[hostBrain]

To be honest, I don't think i would worry too much about that.
As incrediblehlep says, as long as there is no internal links pointing to index.asp.
Because when people link to you, it will be to the domain, not the index page