Tricky 301 redirect problem

colinmcgray · July 9th, 2009, 09:30 AM

Hi all,

I can't get me head around this at all and wondered if anyone could help. I have a small accessibility site on a subdomain: www.mysite.com/ed/accessibility and I'm looking to move it up to a domain of it's own. The pages are all in simple HTML and hosted on a windows server (it's with work so don't blame me, I use apache at home!).

As far as I can tell I can't use .htaccess on windows and I can't use asp redirect because my pages are all .html. I also don't have access to the server settings so can't change anything there. Are there any other possibilities?

I've noticed you can use Perl to redirect, could I run a perl script from my index.html? Or is there anything else I can do? My pages at www.mysite.com/ed/accessibility are listed on google and have been for about 2 years so I'd like to transfer this credibility via the 301 and avoid the sandpit on my new site. Or am I getting this wrong too, is that how is works....?

Any help much appreciated!

Colin

Bspencer11 · July 9th, 2009, 05:47 PM

I am also dealing with a tricky 301 redirect problem. I am trying to redirect from www.example.com/default.htm to www.example.com/index.html. We're on a Windows server, hosted by GoDaddy. Since it's not an apache/linux server, I can't use an .htaccess file. Much like Colin, I can't use an asp redirect because both pages are .html, and I don't have access to the IIS server side controls. Is there anything I/we can do?