Calling Christ Hirst, and other vbScript gurus.

Is it possible to add a 301 redirect code to the HEADRER of my ASP forum (it'll be on every page) that will 301 redirect (for example) forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=8 to forum/?CAT_ID=8 which is the same page, without creating an infinate loop, using if else statements (because it'll reside in the header)?. A url rewrite if you will? Like > if this, then 301 to this, else nothing

Thank you for any input. I cannot do this with IIS7 (no control panel access), and everything I tried with the web.config does nothing when querystrings are involved. In other words,

--------Works-------
<location path="somepage.htm">
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="folder/somepage.htm" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
</system.webServer>
</location>
--------Does NOTHING--------
<location path="forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=8">
<system.webServer>
<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="forum/?CAT_ID=8" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
</system.webServer>
</location>

So I'm looking for an alternative. Thanks!

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=11904

Originally Posted by chrishirst

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=11904

Thanks Chris! You're the man!

Well Chris, I can't get this to work for me. I see the purpose of what the VBscript was written for, but I can't get it to change forum/default.asp? with a query string, to forum/? with the same query string...my little brain hurts.

If I recall the only time Snitz forums shows the "default.asp" links is when items are "POSTed" and recoding that will throw an error as IIS doesn't handle POSTing to "virtual page", it has to be to a physical page URI.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

If I recall the only time Snitz forums shows the "default.asp" links is when items are "POSTed" and recoding that will throw an error as IIS doesn't handle POSTing to "virtual page", it has to be to a physical page URI.

I see. I think I'll just have to let this one go. There are NO links in the forum, redirect, static or otherwise that are pointing to default.asp in the URL. I am only getting the duplicate content issue for the 10 forum categories. I thought after 5 months Google would have re-indexed and found this several rimes over. They may have, but the issue may be outside links pointing to default.asp. Nothing I can do about this. Thanks for all of your help Chris!

Originally Posted by faca5

<%
Response.Redirect(http://www.url.com/)
%>

Thanks, but this issue was resoved in March, and if you read the thread, you'd know what I was actually asking for.