URL rewrites

[SearchPM]

We have a problem whereby a number of our urls are adressable from different urls - I'm told because of a quirk of developing in .net.

e.g.

mysite/FundComparison

mysite/Fund-comparison

mysite/fund-comparison

We asked our supplier who hosts this section of our site to do some url rewrites so that the duplicates would 301 to the correct url. They're on IIS 6.0 and are not ready to upgrade to IIS 7.0 (my recommendation, which makes it easier for them to do the rewrite using the rewrite module).

They said it would take 6-8 weeks to implement a web controller to do this.

"The bulk of the time for this implementation is in the build of the engine + the addition of all the possible permutations of the URL to redirect to the proper URL."

This sounds absolutely insane to me.

I would have thought it could be done in a matter of hours.

What do people think?

[Matt-Williamson]

This might be a much simpler solution for you -

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-IIS.asp

This might also be helpful as installing a form of ISAPI rewrite module would also make the solution quicker and more simple than what it sounds above.

http://forums.iis.net/t/1176085.aspx

Hope this might help..