301 redirect

[schmeetz]

Plz keep in mind i'm a noob at this.

I need to 301 redirect and i'm on IIS. I went from html to .asp.

I read around and noticed the following solution everywhere:

* In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
* Select the radio titled "a redirection to a URL".
* Enter the redirection page
* Check "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource"
* Click on 'Apply'

I asked my hosting company and they said "I am afraid we dont provide developer level support. server side canges are not allowed."

What are my noobish like options?

thanks in advanced

[Corey Bryant]

Honestly, find a hosting company that would support this. Unfortunately, with it already being named HTML, you cannot put PHP or ASP code into the HTML that would re-direct it.

But I am a bit confused, re-directing it to an URL would basically mean re-directing the entire site / domain name

[schmeetz]

Ok the new site is http://www.hiteklogistic.com. All the pages are now .asp. The old one is http://www.hiteklogistic.com/WhyUs.html.

I need to redirect (permanent) the traffic from the old pages to the new ones in a SE friendly way.

What are my optiions aside from changing settings on the server in IIS?

[Corey Bryant]

So basically you changed whyus.html to whyus.asp, right?

If so - the hosting company needs to cooperate for the easiest solution. Afterall, you cannot insert an ASP 301 redirect code into an HTML page - unless you get the hosting company to parse your HTML as ASP pages as well.

[schmeetz]

Hi Corey,

This hosting company gave me the following responce

'We don't handle these redirects, customer can use his own scripts for redirection.'

Since i am not technical i have no rebuttal.

what are my options now?

[Corey Bryant]

You can use a 302 redirect because you are using HTML. But a 302 re-direct might harm you.

You really do not have recourse - except hope that the SEs will pick up the new pages quickly or change hosts.

[schmeetz]

thanks for nothing Cory!

just kidding....i really appreciate your help.

cheers

[Corey Bryant]

I wished I could have been of more help but I do not want to give you code that might get you banned from the Search Engines.

It is too bad though that your hosting company will not work with you on that. It takes only five minutes to do the changes - I know, we have done it before. But a lot of the larger hosting companies have more regulations in place that prohibit the employees from changing internal server settings

[schmeetz]

yeah..what a shame. From now on i go with Linux.

[Corey Bryant]

Just curious - ask them if they support ISAPI re-write. A lot of websites actually do that as well - I forgot about that program, but that would work

[schmeetz]

Ok i sent them the request.

What if is was a .asp site and i wanted to change the names. You said before I could place something directly in the .asp code to 301 redirect?

Could you give me an example?

[Corey Bryant]

It would be:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently" 
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.example.com/otherpage.asp"
%>