301 redirect not available on my server, other options?

I'm trying to create a few 301 redirects using a .htaccess file, but they
don't seem to be working. I've contacted my web hosting company and they
replied with "Our servers run Microsoft OS and Web Servers, .htaccess is a
feature of Linux/Apache web servers." Very helpful!

Does that mean I can't create 301 redirects? If not, then will the following
ASP code be just as effective?

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
response.status="301 moved permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.domain.com/file-location.html"
%>

Thanks,
--
Chris Michael

I'm trying to create a few 301 redirects using a .htaccess file, but they
don't seem to be working. I've contacted my web hosting company and they
replied with "Our servers run Microsoft OS and Web Servers, .htaccess is a
feature of Linux/Apache web servers." Very helpful!

Does that mean I can't create 301 redirects? If not, then will the
following
ASP code be just as effective?

%@ Language=VBScript %
%
response.status="301 moved permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.domain.com/file-location.html"
%

I've done what I assume is the equilevent in php and it works for me.

To check to see if it works check the response here
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi...ervercheck.cgi

It SHOULD read:

Server Response: http://www.yourdomain.com
Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:39:07 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_layout/3.2 PHP/4.3.3 mod_ssl/2.8.11
OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3
Location: http://www.301-to-here.com
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

Obviously the server line will be different.

Does that mean I can't create 301 redirects? If not, then will the
following
ASP code be just as effective?

try this as well: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum23/1167.htm

Michal

"Chris Michael" <news (AT) intomobiles (DOT) com> wrote

| I'm trying to create a few 301 redirects using a .htaccess file, but
| they don't seem to be working. I've contacted my web hosting company
| and they replied with "Our servers run Microsoft OS and Web Servers,
| .htaccess is a feature of Linux/Apache web servers." Very helpful!
|
| Does that mean I can't create 301 redirects? If not, then will the
| following ASP code be just as effective?
|
| <%@ Language=VBScript %
| <%
| response.status="301 moved permanently"
| Response.AddHeader "Location",
| "http://www.domain.com/file-location.html" %

Thanks Sven and wlodi.

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I've done what I assume is the equilevent in php and it works for me.

To check to see if it works check the response here
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi...ervercheck.cgi

It SHOULD read:

Server Response: http://www.yourdomain.com
Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:39:07 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_layout/3.2 PHP/4.3.3 mod_ssl/2.8.11
OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3
Location: http://www.301-to-here.com
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

And that's precisely the problem with php!
You're missing this line:
Last-Modified: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:44:50 GMT

Since php is per definition dynamic you won't get the "Last-Modified"
parameter - unless you do some extra coding. The result is that you
have disabled your visitors' browsers' cache.

It was for this very reason I dropped php-redirect and used .htaccess
instead.


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/Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk

Hey, if you want to be even more determined to disable the client's browser
cache as well as any proxy caches, then do the follow...

// Date in the past
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
// Always modified
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
// HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
// HTTP/1.0
header("Pragma: no-cache");


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