Redirecting URLS on windows

[Grumpy_Carl]

Could anyone help out here please.

A client of ours have reveloped their website from HTML to ASP (helpful!). They have 60 odd pages indexed in Google with the .html extension. We need to do a redirect on these pages so that all link juice is passed to the new pages.

What would be the best way to do this please?

[ak1lz]

Gather a list of all the old HTML URL's
Gather a list of all the new ASP URL's

Find your .htaccess file. Edit it and start adding this,

Redirect 301 /old-file.html http://www.domain.com/new-file.asp

for each of the old/new URL's

Hope this helps, more info can be found here. Remember the best way would be to do it the right way!

[Grumpy_Carl]

Thanks Ak1lz

Do htaccess work on a Windows server? I was under the impression they didn't

[ShaMenz]

Hi Mister G,

.htaccess files are the means used for creating redirects in a LAMP setup using an Apache server.

To create redirects on a Windows box you need to use a quite different method.

This quick reference chart for creating redirects should give you the information you need for most normal redirect situations.

However, when working with .htaccess we would normally create a single rule that redirects all .html files to the .aspx file of the same name. Ours is a LAMP shop, so Windows is not our forte, but I believe you can do the same thing with the proviso that your server is set up for it. A little hard since I don't know exactly which Windows Server setup you are dealing with, but This link might help you out in doing that.

Hope that helps,

Sha