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Thread: page redirect

  1. 10-14-2009, 10:42 AM #1
    jmarshallsea is offline Junior Member
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    Default page redirect

    Hi

    We have page we would like customers to land on ....www.mydomain.com/b2b

    so I created a topic called b2b, but the url is now www.mydomain.com/t-b2b.aspx

    My bosses don't like this url, so I am wondering is it possible to create a plain html page that responds to www.mydomain.com/b2b ......and redirects the browser to the real (convoluted) page ?

    Thanks
    ....Jim
  2. 10-14-2009, 11:53 AM #2
    MarkC is offline Developer
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    Url-rewriting requires an extension to be mapped to(so as to be handled by asp.net), based on your pattern, that will get treated as a folder request by IIS.
    Though there are workarounds like using third party isapi filters.

    One pattern you can use though, you can map say for example b2b.aspx to your b2b topic page, so customers can type instead www.yoursite.com/b2b.aspx or t-b2b.aspx, which will redirect to the same page.

    C#/VB.NET Code:
     <urlrewrites>
            <    rule url="/contact.aspx" rewrite="/driver.aspx?Topic=contact" /> 
  3. 10-14-2009, 12:32 PM #3
    BFG 9000 is offline Senior Member
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    Alternatively, you can create an actual folder called b2b & in it just put a file called default.aspx which contains the following :-

    C#/VB.NET Code:
    <html>

    <    head>
    <    meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <    meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/t-b2b.aspx">
    </    head>

    <    body>

    </    body>

    </    html> 

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