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jbubriski-wakefly - 6/3/2010 9:31:34 AM

Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS?

Is there a best practice for redirecting the non-www version of your domain to the www version of your domain?

So http://mysite.com
would redirect to http://www.mysite.com

I need this so that Google correctly indexes mysite as a single site, and not as two. Can I just add a domain alias for the non-www version and set the redirect URL to be http://www.mysite.com?

What type of HTTP response would the redirect URL return? 301? I think that is what I need.

Or should I configure this in IIS?


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 6/7/2010 3:05:15 AM RE:Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS? Hi, You can configure this in the IIS as well. But also in Kentico CMS in Site Manager -> Sites when you edit the site you can set the domain alias as you need and set URL redirection for this domain alias. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus

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jbubriski-wakefly - 6/7/2010 8:19:52 AM

RE:Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS?

Thanks Juraj.

What about redirecting to the non-www, with the URL path and querystring to correctly forward people?

For example, if someone tried to go to

http://example.com/blog.aspx
redirect to
http://www.example.com/blog.aspx

Is there a best practice for this scenario, and can it be done in Kentico, or would this need to be done in IIS. Thanks,,

John

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kentico_jurajo - 6/9/2010 7:05:34 AM

RE:Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS?

Hi,

I am not sure if it is possible to set this in IIS but I hope so. Anyway, you can achieve this on the Kentico CMS level as well.

You will need to add custom code to the global.asax.cs file, e.g. to the Applicattion_BeginRequest event where you will check the requested URL and perform the redirection if needed.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus


Member	markprins - 6/24/2010 5:29:54 PM RE:Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS? You can create an additional site within IIS, configure the host header value for the non-www version and then set up the site as a redirect to your kentico site. This is also an option for additional domain names that you'd like to redirect to your main site.


Member	srizzetto-microgate - 6/29/2010 2:07:16 AM RE:Redirect Non-WWW to WWW domain within Kentico or IIS? You can also do in IIS. in the Redirect To Field type http://www.example.com$S$Q $S is the path of the page and $Q the querystring parameter including ?

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