Posted: 02 February 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged

Hi guys,

I have linkfreeze working on iis and am in the process of moving from subdomains to main folders on the primary sub domain.

ie www.folder1.domain.co.uk to www.domain.co.uk/folder1/

I have a large amount of pages in the search engines and want to be able to redirect properly. I have setup the 'A permenant redierction for this resourse' in iis but this translates a .html url in the search engine listings to the .aspx as it is saved on the web server, it does not translate a .html to a .html. The .html pages work fine if I navigate myself to the correct url through the normal site links and link freeze is working fine for the dynamic url redirection when navigated through the new site links it is just the redirection from stored links that seems to be the problem.

I hope this makes sense and somebody can assist on how to redirect from the subdomain whilst maintaining the .html format through the new locations.

Thanks

Chris

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 4:08am | IP Logged

Hi Anton,

Thanks for the response, I have setup the ISAPI_Rewrite on the server but could do with a bit of assistance on where to add the rules for each sub domain.

Each subdomain is setup as an indivual website, would I need to retain these or can I delete these and add a new global rule for each subdomain to redirect to the new virtual directory I have setup withing the main domain.

Thanks

Chris

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 5:14am | IP Logged

I have tried adding this to the virtual directory htaccess of the new location domain.co.uk/folder/ but I get errors that the page cannot be found.

I have also tried adding this in to the root domain htaccess but nothing happens

Thanks

Chris

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 5:33am | IP Logged

I have tried adding that to the httpd.conf and to the htaccess for the main domain but nothing happens here is the exact text I have in the files;

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.69

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!www)([^.]+)\.toroholidays\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.toroholidays.co.uk/%1 [NC,R=301,L]

do I still need to have the redirect setup in iis or can I should I delete the subdomain node

Thanks

Chris

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 6:42am | IP Logged

still nothing happening, I only have the config in the httpd.conf and have remove the redirect in IIS.

I have tried existing subdomains and dummy subdomains but nothing redirects

Thanks

Chris

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 8:23am | IP Logged

Here is the rewite log for the test subdomain I tried

217.41.44.60 217.41.44.60  Wed, 03-Feb-2010  13:51:47 GMT [www.subdomain.toroholidays.co.uk/sid#1][rid#20000456/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /pagerror.gif
217.41.44.60 217.41.44.60  Wed, 03-Feb-2010  13:51:47 GMT [www.subdomain.toroholidays.co.uk/sid#1][rid#20000456/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
217.41.44.60 217.41.44.60  Wed, 03-Feb-2010  13:51:47 GMT [www.subdomain.toroholidays.co.uk/sid#1][rid#20000456/initial] (3) applying pattern '.?' to uri '/pagerror.gif'
217.41.44.60 217.41.44.60  Wed, 03-Feb-2010  13:51:47 GMT [www.subdomain.toroholidays.co.uk/sid#1][rid#20000456/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='www.subdomain.toroholidays.co.uk' pattern='^(?!www)([^.]+)\.toroholidays\.co\.uk$' => not-matched

Posted: 03 February 2010 at 9:14am | IP Logged

Perfect! all seems to be working, tested a few redirects from indexed pages on google and redirects to the correct page

Many thanks for your persistance.

Chris