301 redirect on Windows IIS. HELP!

[Jeepster]

Hi

My six-year-old domain has always existed in four forms:

http://www**.**mydomain.com/index.html

http://mydomain.com/index.html

http://mydomain.com/

http://www.mydomain.com

My webmaster claims it’s “impossible” to do a 301 redirect from the first three to the fourth. I need simple instructions to guide him.

The site’s hosted on Windows running IIS

Here’s his rationale:

These are all the same page, so they can’t redirect to themselves. Index.html is the default page that loads automatically if you don’t specify a page.

If I put a redirect into index.html it would just run an infinite redirect loop.

As you can see from the IIS set up, both www.mydomain and mydomain.com  point to the same location ( VIEW IMAGE HERE )

_Both of these use index.html as the default document ( VIEW IMAGE 2 HERE ) _

[TakeshiYoung]

This is the code you want to add to your /htaccess file:

#Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

redirect 301 index.html http://www.domain.com/

This will make it so http://www.domain.com/ is the correct link for your site.

This should not result in any redirect loops unless you already have redirects in place.