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May 04.2005

Can anybody recommend method of creating global redirecting scripts other than htaccess?

We currently use htaccess to direct visitors who try and access pages which have been deleted or renamed to a page which gives them a list of alternatives. htaccess is also useful for globally directing visitors to a temporary page during development by typing one line of code we can avoid updating sitwide links to a single page.

We want to be able to run a similar script from a windows server because we need full support for asp too, and it is apparently impossible to run these htaccess redirecting scripts on a windows server. (a linux server won’t support all of the asp functionality that we need).

Thank You.
Simon Neaves.

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@scragarMay 04.2005 — if you've got asp then you can redirect people at the drop of a hat:

response.redirect "Full URL to target"

but this only works if they go to a page with that code in.
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@MstrBobMay 04.2005 — You know, I've heard of a number of projects to provide ASP support for Apache. You might want to look into that.
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@ray326May 05.2005 — if you've got asp then you can redirect people at the drop of a hat:

response.redirect "Full URL to target"

but this only works if they go to a page with that code in.[/QUOTE]
So that's not relevant to what he asked, eh?
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@ray326May 05.2005 — We want to be able to run a similar script from a windows server because we need full support for asp too, and it is apparently impossible to run these htaccess redirecting scripts on a windows server.[/QUOTE]You don't really mean "Windows" and "Linux" you mean "IIS" and "Apache". I think the best you can do in IIS (and it may be all you require) is to configure the "custom error pages". I believe that works globally for the server and each app can override the global settings.
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@MstrBobMay 05.2005 — I don't know much about it, but perhaps [URL=http://www.isapirewrite.com/]ISAPI_Rewrite[/URL] might be of some interest? I hear it's supposedly similar to Mod_Rewrite, but I don't work with IIS so I couldn't tell you.
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